[miguelmota]

A brief for anyone wondering what Filecoin is:

> Filecoin is a decentralized storage network that turns the world’s unused storage into an algorithmic market, creating a permanent, decentralized future for the web. Miners earn the native protocol token (also called “filecoin”) by providing data storage and/or retrieval. Clients pay miners to store or distribute data and to retrieve it.

Filecoin is a project of Protocol Labs which also created the DAG based hypermedia protocol IPFS.

[baby]

If you add compression, it is pied piper.

[Geee]

Except FileCoin is Hooli and Sia(Coin) is Pied Piper. They're essentially reinventing Sia with money. https://sia.tech/

[random_kris]

how so? Sia has it's own token aswell

[gammateam]

Protocol Labs wont integrate filecoin use into IPFS?

[momack2]

See the Filecoin FAQs (https://filecoin.io/faqs/#what-is-the-connection-between-ipf...) for more information on how IPFS and Filecoin interoperate.

[miguelmota]

Filecoin is essentially IPFS with incentives for data retention and distribution.

[gammateam]

Given that so many people do it all for free with very good uptime and connectivity, do you think Filecoin will be something consumers want?