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by zethraeus 2833 days ago
> (it's hard to see how paying people to host your stuff on their own machines can ever be cost-competitive with paying AWS to do it).

The counterargument would be: there are cheaper ways to mine bitcoin than on aws infra. If you can incentivize that with money, you can incentivize storage with filecoin.

You also get censorship resilience (and maybe even better distribution if all goes excellently).