[diggan]

> IPFS is trying to bootstrap some cryptocurrency to fix that but they seems to be taking their sweet time with that

AFAIK, Filecoin is live now, and seems you can use it now for getting peers to host your IPFS data.

But, I'm also unsure that incentivizing peers with actual money is the best and/or only solution. BitTorrent works today for free, many peers are seeding content just to be seeders. DC++ worked yesterday, where people shared data just to share data.

While probably offering money for storing data will get more people onboard to store others data, it doesn't seem to be the only solution we have at hand to get free sharing of data.