yosh

Same should apply for other protocols - allow merkle trees talk to each other

Turns IPFS into a merkle forest - allows connecting different merkle trees with each other. bitcoing <-> ethereum <-> git - glue layer

IPLD: distributed hash chain format for merkle trees (hope I quoted that right, hah)

ooh, IPLD might be standardized in the near future - either w3c or IETF - yaaaas, fingers crossed

Touching on libp2p now - this is what I was waiting for :D

"It's straight forward to create a p2p library that works for 80% of the people, but the question is: how do you reach the remaining 20%?"

So libp2p has a concept of different cagegories: transports, discovery, peer routing, content routing

"We broke the end to end model by stuff like NATs, libp2p tries and fix some of those breakages"