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Re:Filecoin Foundation Grants 50k FIL to the Internet Archive by Groxx on Thursday April 01, 2021 @06:06PM (#26666768)
They effectively are doing this, including with IPFS: https://dweb.archive.org/details/home

I'm not sure what the current state is though. And IPFS is basically just a protocol for storage, it doesn't ensure / encourage storage in any way - that's the point of filecoin.

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Re:Filecoin Foundation Grants 50k FIL to the Internet Archive by leoc on Friday April 02, 2021 @09:47AM (#26671365)
It's also worth adding that the general idea of using distributed proof-of-work things in Internet protocols goes back quite a long way, to 1997 at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash : it's not just a post-Bitcoin/ICO-era notion.
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Re:Filecoin Foundation Grants 50k FIL to the Internet Archive by Groxx on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:39PM (#26673726)
Yeah, I sincerely wish hashcash had succeeded, it seems like a viable route for nigh-eliminating spam.

Bitcoin's achievement isn't a radically new core algorithm of any kind, it's using existing stuff in a clever way, to make it self-reinforcing even when thrown at humans. (I mean, yea, that's an algorithm, but you get my meaning)

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