Re:Filecoin 2017 Q4 Update
by Aunche on Thursday January 11, 2018 @06:26PM
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Why not just do this without the overhead of mining and maintaining a blockchain? Surely there's a more efficient way of maintaining a public distributed file system.
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In the Dat world, we have https://hashbase.io, a self-deployable service for rehosting archives
If you have a system where anyone can provide storage and anyone can buy storage, then you need to have a system to verify that the files are actually being stored. As I understand it, that's filecoin mining.
Filecoin eliminates a lot of the overhead of selling storage, but it adds some overhead all its own. The big question is: which is larger, and by how much?
Re:Filecoin 2017 Q4 Update
by tylersmith on Thursday January 11, 2018 @07:50PM
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That's what IPFS is. Filecoin is an extension on top of IPFS to allow people to pay to ensure their content stays available.
There is. It's SAFE Network. https://safenetwork.org/