I'm excited to see that the Filecoin project is getting an update. It long seemed to be stale, with IPFS being the main priority. While a new shiny website and

I'm excited to see that the Filecoin project is getting an update. It long seemed to be stale, with IPFS being the main priority. While a new shiny website and this podcast is up, the new promised Filecoin paper isn't yet public. It will be interesting to see how it compares to Maidsafe. A notable difference is that Filecoin uses a transaction ledger, while Maidsafe promises to use groups of nodes 'close by' to maintain a consensus: https://blog.maidsafe.net/2015/01/29/consensus-without-a-blockchain/ https://blog.maidsafe.net/2015/01/29/consensus-without-a-blo...