BCH22 Presentation

bch-infra-presentation-notes.md

Reducing BCH Infrastructure Costs with IPFS

This gist contains notes on the presentation give at the BCH22 conference in St. Kitts on 11/12/22. A YouTube version of the presentation will be uploaded a few days after the event, and a link will be posted here when that happens.

About the Speaker

• Chris Troutner's GitHub Profile
• Chris Troutner on Twitter

Organizations

• FullStack.cash - Web 2 infrastructure for scaling BCH apps
  • Developer discussion Telegram channel
• Permissionless Software Foundation - A consortium of JavaScript developers and entreprenures focusing on tokens and crypto.
  • PSF Telegram Channel
• Interplanetary File System (IPFS) - technology that allows significant reduction of infrastructure costs through Circuit Relays.

Technology

• The Cash Stack - A framework for building web2 and web3 BCH apps.
• Circuit Relays - allow easy networking.
• IPFS layer in the web3 Cash Stack:
  • ipfs-coord - A JS library for creating mesh networks using IPFS.
  • ipfs-service-provider - Can set up a Circuit Relay. Base code repository used to generate the following two pieces of softare.
  • ipfs-bch-wallet-consumer - Forked from ipfs-service-provider, this software creates a 'local' back end; a light-weight REST API that can pipe data across IPFS to a 'global' back end.
  • ipfs-bch-wallet-service - Forked from ipfs-service-provider, this software links the 'global' back end of the web3 Cash Stack to the front end, over IPFS.