yosh

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"

libp2p allows different tradeoffs to be made, application can express what it requires and the best fitting transport will be used - neat!