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But there are already pinning services, conventionally paid by the person wanting to have something pinned. Of course you can build something super distributed
by solarkraft 6y ago
But there are already pinning services, conventionally paid by the person wanting to have something pinned.
Of course you can build something super distributed and fractional on top of that. Maybe d.tube and lbry are such things, but the more venture capital is involved the less I tend to trust such efforts.
- brian_cloutier 6y agoPaying some pinning service is, architecturally, not much different than paying S3 to store your files. Filecoin turns file storage into a marketplace, which is a significant improvement. Currently S3 charges a large premium because you wouldn't trust many other people to reliably hold on to your data. I expect this will cause the cost of file storage to plummet. Your venture capital heuristic is a good one, but I think the rest of what we know about Filecoin overwhelms it.