>, why would you need lots of people to seed your 100 GB of personal vacation photos? I think you're missing some context for the motivation of Filecoin. One

>, why would you need lots of people to seed your 100 GB of personal vacation photos? I think you're missing some context for the motivation of Filecoin. One of the elevator pitches is that it can disrupt cloud storage like Amazon S3.[1][2] People do put personal files (e.g. via a cloud backup service) on cloud storage like AWS S3. Instead of a paying a centralized Amazon, Filecoin claims they have a way for money to go to the decentralized owners of harddrives. Therefore, if "backing up my personal vacation photos" to Amazon S3 is a use case, that means the decentralized peers hosting my uninteresting personal files is also supposed to be possible. >But don't use bittorrent, use the right tool for the job... Yes, exactly. That's what my reply to gp was explaining: his suggestion of webtorrent/bittorrent/gun is a protocol that solves a different problem than the one Filecoin tries to solve. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=filecoin+amazon+aws+s3 https://www.google.com/search?q=filecoin+amazon+aws+s3 [2] deep link of Juan Benet of Filecoin mentioning the centralized cloud services: https://youtu.be/6h2WNxEV8q4?t=482 https://youtu.be/6h2WNxEV8q4?t=482