Files.fm data storage platform has received European Union support for practical implementation of blockchain solutions. In the last week of January, the company took part in the innovation competition Block.IS in Istanbul and was among the selected 23 European companies, receiving €50,000 for implementation of blockchain solutions and receiving independent expert reviews: good, very good…
Tag: p2p
Stream large files instantly
What do you imagine when hearing the word “torrent”? Maybe a stream of water, or maybe pirates — depends on your age and interests. For those of you whose mind jumps to illegal file downloads and pirating, this is only one side of torrents. While torrent technology is often used for legally questionable activities, it…
The story about file sharing and peer-to-peer
Join us to build a decentralized platform of useful and community-curated content! https://files.fm have been developing and providing centralized cloud file storage and sharing services since 2008. We started because at that time RapidShare and other such services sucked a lot — they were impractical, full of ads and users were forced to pay for decent…
This is an article about blockchain and not about bitcoins
It hasn’t been a good year for bitcoin, the most famous cryptocurrency. In the last 12 months, its price has dropped from a record high of 20 000 dollars to meager 6300 dollars. Lots of people lost their money. Lots of people got sad — or annoyed: you probably remember that one friend who couldn’t…
Library for the modern age
We talked about the need for a library in our previous article (which you can read here) — and how you will soon be able to support ours. Before the crazy development process is shared with a larger public, it would do well to step back and look at how we got here.It is no news…
Files.fm Library — best of both worlds
Files.fm Library will be created by joining the best technologies and practices from both centralized and decentralized worlds. Both of these network types have their advantages and disadvantages, so Files.fm will combine them both to limit their drawbacks and accentuate their perks. Bittorrent and other decentralized P2P networks are known for not being very reliable,…
Creating a P2P digital file library — the who, the how, the why
In one of our first posts we outlined the most notable problems with online file storage and sharing and briefly mentioned our ambitious plan to solve them by creating the Files.fm Library. In this article we will briefly introduce the main concepts and technological aspects involved in creating it. Files.fm Library will combine all existing files.fm services…