[imglorp]

There's still a bunch of questions around filecoin, but if you set aside the token and speculative nature, the it's the first realistic proof of storage system and represents (1) a departure from proof of work that's sucking up the power output of several countries for no good reason, (2) a useful base for IPFS to store its bits persistently and (3) perhaps funding Protocol Labs so they can continue to advance this state of art.