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by dtonon 1638 days ago
This is not exact. Filecoin is built on the top of IPFS!

https://filecoin.io/build/

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Yes, but IMHO, IPFS without Filecoin doesn't really innovate in any meaningful way over previous CAS/DHT based distributed filesystems (Freenet, Tahoe-LAFS, etc). Filecoin lets IPFS claim that they have at least tried to solve the freeloader problem and incentivized people to actually store strangers' encrypted data long term.