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> it's one of the more environmentally friendly coins I'm not convinced that's even true. It's still a proof-of-work coin; the only real difference is that the
by duskwuff 6y ago
> it's one of the more environmentally friendly coins
I'm not convinced that's even true. It's still a proof-of-work coin; the only real difference is that the work is storage-intensive.
- wmf 6y agoThere's a huge difference between proof of useless work and getting paid for storing real data.
- duskwuff 6y agoThe storage is incidental. Filecoin "storage miners" are required to perform work to prove that they're still storing the data. This work serves no purpose beyond acting as a proof of storage, and performing this work has nontrivial costs.