[fatrachet]

Well Dropbox/Gdrive/Skydrive etc. all offer free storage in the range of 15-30gb, which is enough for most normal users. For professionell use there is S3,glacier, box etc. and they all offer known security and redundancy.

Most businesses won't touch anything related to bitcoin and things lacking a reliable SLA.

While a lot of people have unused storage space, many lack usable upload bandwidth and have low availability, so I would assume a lot of copies would be needed.

It's gonna be very interesting to see if stuff like this or storj, which was posted earlier today, can compete with current services.

But as someone with a lot of servers with unused space I sure hope so.

[lukifer]

One has to wonder how much unused disk space is sitting on the generic Dell boxes in various cubicle farms, libraries, etc. Could be decent trickle revenue, and it wouldn't impede usability/performance the way mining does.

[_prometheus]

Yes. There's so many computing resources going to waste. We're changing that.

[_prometheus]

Lots of businesses are already relying on Bitcoin for revenue. The reliability -- and other properties -- of a network like Filecoin can be measured easily. Businesses are all about numbers. :)