Filecoin – Data storage network and crypto-currency based on Bitcoin
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HN comment orderIf the price lowers, I'm going to want to use it to store files instead of my hard drive at home, right? Can you share links with other people to fetch files? If the price gets higher, I'll want to buy more hard drives for more people to pay me to use my space. Is that how this works, or am I misreading? If it works like that, it's pure genius. You'd be able to get a lot of use…
Sia [http://sia.tech/]; filecoin; Storj [https://storj.io/]; maidsafe [https://maidsafe.net/]. Sounds like someone could do a good comparison article. Does anyone have any experience of using any of these? They do take quite a bit to set up compared to, say, Backblaze B2 or AWS S3.
Mailing list doesn't accept valid email addresses containing a "+" symbol. Guess I'm not signing up then.
ah, the first ico for rich people. I mean, accredited investors. if you want a chuckle look at the history of the term "accredited investor" on Wikipedia I left an Easter egg
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 450
- Total comments
- 203
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-07-17 | Filecoin | Democratized Cloud Storage | aburan28 | 7 | 3 |
| 2014-07-18 | Filecoin – Data storage network and crypto-currency based on BitcoinFirst breakout · Best thread | _prometheus | 281 | 137 |
| 2015-10-31 | Filecoin: Distributed p2p file storage | cdvonstinkpot | 4 | 0 |
| 2015-11-17 | Data storage network and electronic currency based on Bitcoin | pacemkr | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-02-24 | Filecoin – A Cryptocurrency Operated File Storage NetworkHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | setra | 145 | 62 |
| 2018-08-20 | FileCoin – a decentralised market for storage | ColinWright | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-09-10 | Massive storage sits unusued on hard drives around the world | mertnesvat | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-10-06 | FileCoin - Get Paid For Sharing Your Unused Storage | peter_d_sherman | 2 | 1 |
| 2022-03-27 | Filecoin – A Cryptocurrency Operated File Storage Network | bcg361 | 4 | 0 |