Filecoin is meant for stable long-term storage; thus, mining the unused space on your personal harddirve is not the intended use case. Today, there is a lack o

Filecoin is meant for stable long-term storage; thus, mining the unused space on your personal harddirve is not the intended use case. Today, there is a lack of Dropbox-like systems to make the decentralized system broadly useful. It's a shortcoming that people are working on solving. It's akin to being given a big ole harddrive: Until you have a filesystem & file browser, it would only be relevant to a small population -- but that utility would explode once tooling is complete. Some resources to address you question on utilization: https://file.app/ https://file.app/ https://filscan.io/#/home https://filscan.io/#/home Also: spending less than an hour trying to grok something new, and then ripping into it seems pretty disconnected. Thinking back to my learning curve on emacs, linux, IRC, BBSs, early www, etc. Hell, I remember spending days(!) wire wrapping that first computer and flashing the ROMs. It took substantial effort to be involved in the "obscure hobby", but look where computing and the web are now! Don't mistake ease of use today for potential impact tomorrow.