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Re:Mediachain enivisions a blockchain-based tool for identif... by paavokoya on Thursday June 02, 2016 @02:52PM (#11825083)
> by granting filecoin to whom share their bandwidth and local storage

This is what every blockchain does.. (lottery mining)

>But right now, it doesnt exist. And IPFS still works flawlessly

Reading the IPFS website, I was under the impression IPFS nodes were utilizing filecoin. My bad.

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Re:Mediachain enivisions a blockchain-based tool for identif... by parkan on Thursday June 02, 2016 @04:46PM (#11825904)
Filecoin is one of several proposed approaches for encouraging seeding ("pinning") in the IPFS network. In our network (Mediachain), we will probably start out by using tit-for-tat pinning between peers for this purpose.
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