Agreed - there is no incentive layer present with vanilla IPFS. This is where Sia comes in. Hosts on the Sia network are paid using Siacoin to keep data readily

Agreed - there is no incentive layer present with vanilla IPFS. This is where Sia comes in. Hosts on the Sia network are paid using Siacoin to keep data readily available and online - they are incentivized. At Filebase, we have connected the two technologies to give us the best of both.