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by sschueller 1838 days ago
So IPFS with incentives to run a node?

One big issue I see with IPFS is that you or someone has to pin the content or it is gone for ever. This builds centralized services that offer pinning of your content.

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I think that is what Filecoin [0] addresses.

[0] https://filecoin.io/

Beat me to it.
What's cool about IPFS is that anyone can pin the content and the user doesn't have to migrate anything. This makes hosting far more liquid, which should drive down prices.
The people behind IPFS developed FileCoin[0] to provide incentives.

[0] - https://filecoin.io/