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Re:Is Filecoin a $257 million Ponzi scheme? [pdf] by _jal on Friday December 01, 2017 @12:22AM (#15822113)
I think we have some conversational difficulties (using words differently, perhaps different understandings of what's going on) that is making it hard to have a decent discussion, so I'm going to conclude with where I think we agree.

Some system roughly like this has potential use cases, even if it may be unsuitable for others. While I wouldn't expect a public company to store their financials in it, there is a lot of data that is held less tightly out there.

And more speculatively, "The street finds its own uses for things." Who knows what obvious-in-restrospect thing emerges. Maybe after 10 years and some evolution, commercial software and data systems live in a system like this and purchases are ledger operations, so the user-base of a given product becomes the distribution platform.

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