[NEW CONTENT] [BOUNTY] Bitswap

[Mr0grog]

This issue has a bounty!

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The need in brief

A high-level explainer of Bitswap.

Context/supporting materials: At the IPFS developer summit in Berlin in July 2018, we had poster-making sessions where people explored various IPFS concepts. This Bitswap poster could ideally be expanded into a basic diagram of what Bitswap is and how it works, supplemented by written content.

Deliverable

A concise, high-level description of this IPFS concept. It should answer the following, supplemented whenever possible by diagrams, videos and/or code examples:

• What is this?
• How does it relate to the rest of IPFS?
• What are some generic use cases for this — how might it meet a need in someone's project/goal?
• How can (or should?) you use it? (Note: sometimes the answer is that you should understand it, but not necessarily use it based on your use case or the current state of the tech.)
• Where do you go to learn more?
• What is the current state of this concept or technology?

Content should take the form of a Markdown document, supplemented by diagrams as embedded images. File locations should be as follows:

• MD content should live here (lease make a PR against the existing placeholder document) https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-docs-v2/blob/master/docs/concepts/bitswap.md
• Images can live in the MD content's parent directory; we'll move them before final merge
• For videos, just post temporarily on the platform of your choice, and we'll sort out on a case-by-case basis

Guidelines

• Please use the IPFS Docs Contributor Guidelines as your north star — adherence to these guidelines are crucial when it comes to awarding potential bounty!
• Also, please keep in mind our core user personae. If a piece of content serves one or more personae in particular, make sure it checks out with that persona's attributes.

[edgo914]

I'm interested, assign me for this one!

[johnnymatthews]

It's all yours @edgo914!

[edgo914]

Sent PR

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[jessicaschilling]

See ipfs/ipfs-docs#78 for PR.

[johnnymatthews]

Closed through PR 122.

[momack2]

@johnnymatthews / @jessicaschilling can you ensure we pay this out and move to the "paid" column of the bounty board?