Re:Investor revolt and legal dispute delay Filecoin plans
by brian_cloutier on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:29PM
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Paying some pinning service is, architecturally, not much different than paying S3 to store your files.
Filecoin turns file storage into a marketplace, which is a significant improvement. Currently S3 charges a large premium because you wouldn't trust many other people to reliably hold on to your data. I expect this will cause the cost of file storage to plummet.
Your venture capital heuristic is a good one, but I think the rest of what we know about Filecoin overwhelms it.
Of course you can build something super distributed and fractional on top of that. Maybe d.tube and lbry are such things, but the more venture capital is involved the less I tend to trust such efforts.