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Re:Web 3.0 – An Arrogant and Treacherous Successor Doomed to... by vkou on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:22PM (#33710019)
1. Both the mindshare and marketshare of NFTs and similar garbage dwarfs any use of Filecoin.

2. Dropbox and Drive are cheaper and better. S3 is cheaper.

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Re:Web 3.0 – An Arrogant and Treacherous Successor Doomed to... by k__ on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:28PM (#33710106)
1. That's not really an argument. There is literally exabytes of data on Filecoin (https://stats.filecoin.io/d/z6FtI92Zz/filecoin-chain-stats?o...)

2. And gone if you stop paying.

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Re:Web 3.0 – An Arrogant and Treacherous Successor Doomed to... by ceejayoz on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:34PM (#33710192)
> And gone if you stop paying.

Are Filecoin nodes all hosting files for free? I can put a terabyte of files on there and it'll never go away?

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Re:Web 3.0 – An Arrogant and Treacherous Successor Doomed to... by foobiekr on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @03:20PM (#33710904)
No. That is all a lie.
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Re:Web 3.0 – An Arrogant and Treacherous Successor Doomed to... by vkou on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:32PM (#33710175)
1. That's capacity, that's not usage. I don't care about imagined usage, I care about actual usage.

2. No, it'll just be gone if crypto crashes enough and the miners sell or turn down their hardware (Probably precipitated by some fraud in some other part of the ecosystem unwinding).

There's a reason nobody has built the next Dropbox on Filecoin. [1]

[1] I mean, you can do that, if you have Einstein hair, and your goal is to grift dumb VC money, but you're not going to put together a better product.

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