> Why a "Filecoin"? We already have a tested and working native internet currency: bitcoin. Filecoin's promise is to be tightly coupled with file storage, to s

> Why a "Filecoin"? We already have a tested and working native internet currency: bitcoin. Filecoin's promise is to be tightly coupled with file storage, to set up contracts that are automatically enforced by the network. Bitcoin does not do this. I don't know much about it, but maybe Ethereum could be used to do that, though