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Plenty of blockchains—Filecoin included—use some amalgamation of IPFS, but the reverse isn’t true.

Heck, even Bluesky uses some IPFS tech. Does that mean it has a blockchain? Of course not.

> Let me put it in another context, would you say Brave has a blockchain? I'd definitely say it does.

I don’t use Brave, but from a cursory glance I think probably yes, it “uses/depends on” a blockchain for some functionality.

Can you show an example where that is the case for IPFS?

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> Plenty of blockchains—Filecoin included—use some amalgamation of IPFS, but the reverse isn’t true.

But one of them is directly tied to it.

> I don’t use Brave, but from a cursory glance I think probably yes, it “uses/depends on” a blockchain for some functionality.

It's just a web page, the actual browser functionality doesn't depend on it. But maybe it wasn't the best example.

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