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This project went away at stage 1
RIP

FileCoin Project
http://dvarenysh-blog.ru/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/programma_shifrovanija_dannyh.png

Still mining @ your CPU, GPU or ASIC? Forget about them! HDD & Internet channel are now your best friends!
We are proud to present totally new system: Decentralized Encrypted File Storage - FileCoin

What is it?
You getting software, witch is wallet, file storage, mining & cryptographic tool in one:
1) If you want just mine coins - give a part of your channel & HDD space for encrypted storage, used by FileCoin network, and some % of your CPU for crypto operations -> mining process started. You are getting coins proportionally between your shared resources and summary network resources.
2) You are getting your coins to standard bitcoin-like address. You can send them like any other cryptocurrency, buy & sell @ exchanges, pay in services, witch support FileCoin
3) If you need to save your private data somewhere in network anonymously - you are in right place. Just use our file storage feature, and your file is highly encrypted on many differents hosts, you really does not know where. Cryptographic algorithms encrypts your data and torrent-like network between FileCoin wallets saves your file.
4) Mining proccess is simple, as I said - you just have wallet or service/daemon started, witch supports file encryption, storaging and transport
5) Also you can receive Coins from other users, if you are hosting special functions, like backup, version history, etc.

How does it works?
This is hybrid technology between bitcoin & bittorrent, witch makes your data highly encrypted and hosted elsewhere.
Smart algorithm always moves file parts between hosts, before last three hosts with some unique data in network are down.
Minimum three hosts has copy of each block, RAID5-like block storage system
Your files are always available by your FileCoin address & encryption key
Any file, uploaded in system has magnet-like link, used by software to get file back
Network desides, where parts of your file (not whole) must be hosted
Each file separates to standard blocks, witch are encrypted and sent to different host

Features
 - Files encrypted before sending to network
 - Storage encrypted @ every host
 - CPU resources of network are generating unique data for file encryption
 - HDD & internet channel resources shared to make bigger profit
 - Only network knows, where are your files physically are
 - Easy file sharing between addresses
 - Corporate or private usage
 - File version history, data backup, more hosts for your data, payed by FileCoins
 - Easy files access like @ disk
 - We are accepting feature requests

Technical Data
Used resources: CPU, HDD, INET
Maximum coins: 50,000,000 FC
Emission time: 50 years
Maximum network storage space: UNLIMITED
Maximum network summary channel: UNLIMITED
Reward: changes proportional with network power grow.
Premine for rewards: 1%
Premine for IPO: 3%
Standard IPO formula - you are getting FileCoins proportionnaly with your IPO

Exchanges
- http://www.upbit.org/en// - first professional cryptocurrency exchange platform
- We need more exchanges for FileCoin now. First exchange rewarded by 100 FCs, second by 50 FCs, third by 25 FCs

Premine addresses
- Here will be premine addresses to control cashflow

Development stages
1) Some public alpha versions with testnet
    - testing coin module
    - testing and debugging coin emission algo
    - testing file encryption module
    - testing file travelling module
    - closed source
2) Some public beta versions with testnet
    - debugging
    - testing modules as one product
    - closed source
3) Public release-beta with worknet
    - coin start. wallet released, hosts started, growing network
    - open source
4) Next-beta with worknet
    - adding features
    - debugging
    - open source

IPO rules
IPO starts from first alphas and goes up to first public beta version. Please send us private message about your transactions. If you want IPO before alphas - you are welcome.
Investment address in BTC: 1A42LDszkTk3Sp6qby21mFWsWxu7Ti2FVq BTC
https://blockchain.info/address/1A42LDszkTk3Sp6qby21mFWsWxu7Ti2FVq
Investment address in CLR: CWTR4xDnuh5JYWdoeZzRNsvQx9iqou1tUw (converted to BTC by exchange rate @ upbit.org)
http://blockchain.copperlark.com/search/CWTR4xDnuh5JYWdoeZzRNsvQx9iqou1tUw

List of Investors
- Here will be list of project Investors with hidden or open nicknames

Contacts
Contact skype: the3ym
Contact whatsapp & email: by request

Best, 3yM & FileCoin Team

Thinking about it :)

need more info

what kind of info?

This is not a good idea. Just because a file is encrypted does not mean that its owner would welcome multiple copies of it saved on random people's computers. Whoever came up with this idea is not wise at all.

Have you written any code?  Is it open source? 

Of course, using google disk is better idea! Centralized, government controlled, unencrypted by default. But in some cases millions of people using it. Do you know why?

Look upper, whole information is there. We started test modules in closed team-only alphas, now we are at stage 0, trying to unite bitcoin code with torrent.

And what do you think about it? :)

Yes. It is easier to hold a company like Google liable for any wrongdoing than a random person that someone is connected to via a P2P network.

Too good to be a scam  ???

If you don't have data, that better you don't know where it is physically, does not mean, that nobody does. Sometimes you need send information anonymously - this is the best way.

Why do you think it is scam?

becuz maybe theres already an ipo without a testnet?

Because you haven't detailed anything about the protocol or how it's going to work. Demonstrate your ability through screen recordings of the client working properly.

Also, you haven't detailed how proof of work is going to work in this situation. Nothing at all.

So, in conclusion, this is a scam and please treat it as such.

[insert obligatory 69.5 BTC quote here]

Ok, some more project details to be stolen :-) in update. As I said before we have only very early team-alphas. But we work hard.

I will invest 0.00001 btc ... I'm kind of sick of IPO scams

If you're basing your code on Bitcoin or any altcoin, then you're bound to operate under an open source license anyway. No one can steal something that's free.

was this the winner of the texas bitcoin conference hackathon?

Ok, I missed some of that detail about closed source through stage 2, then open source.  Sorry.   But it still wasn't clear whether you had actually written any code yet.

Are you saying that the IPO stays open through the end of development stage #1, which you call "public alpha versions with testnet"?  Can you confirm potential investors will have the opportunity during this stage #1, while the IPO is still open, to see the software in action before deciding whether to invest? 

Absolutely not.


What? Release some screenshots right now. Prove it.

Please don't buy into this guys' crap. I'm not even kidding. You might as well be better off donating to SeansOutpost or something.

Ah, okay.  The winners there made a decentralized file sharing system based on the stuff proposed regarding that by gmaxwell and using the chain to store most of the metadata for files, afaik it was mostly implemented and running at the conference so I suspect we'll see it on here in a little while.

Yeah, I was keeping an eye on the hackathon, mainly because I wanted to attend. But charging money to attend a hackathon wasn't something I wanted to do. Maybe next year.

I think its different, that's a welcome change from the daily shitcoins.

You are comparing FileCoin to bitcoin & altcoins. Why? Because it has *coin idea in it and part of bitcoin algorithms? Here is no standard mining - we have just CPU encryption operations and HDD / INET as main profit modifiers.

Since you offer no proof of the coin existence, can you accept investment through escrow.  I guess NO  due to the blah blah. I am not gonna invest anyway you probably copy the idea from the Hackathon  :(

How are the other 96% of coins going to be distributed?

You don't understand me, I think. I'm saying just this thing - more detailed project information - and we have fork of it before our release. I'll be red too - don't listen to this guy he does not know what he talking about

Just read tech specs - your wallet is started, CPU, HDD & channel used - you get profit. It's kind of mining, but here is something usable in mining process, not just heat, noise and sha-256 )))

Answer something for us though -- did you get this idea from the hackathon winner and are trying to launch your own version before they can release theirs?

We did not copy any idea from the Hackathon, I can send you our team chat log, if you want. Do you know, that most of ideas are in air, and there is no need to copy something? I founded this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=376809.0 after I posted our release notes.

I'm answering - I didn't hear about Hackathon or it's winner before this conversation.

They probably have no relation. This guy probably saw gmaxwell's proposal and decided to copy it in hopes of some quick bucks. He's shown zero competence in creating a coin, let alone making a protocol that could sustain this. Essentially your are storing potentially terabytes of files you don't even know about on your computer.



Detail how proof of storage would work. What makes you so certain I won't be modifying the files and maliciously serving it to peers? How do you verify the integrity of the files?


Your sentence doesn't even make sense. If more details are to come then you aren't ready for an IPO, so delete this thread until you have definite proof.

Of course, you first can touch some alpha before deciding to invest or not.

Also, please explain how files are to be encrypted, and later decrypted in the blockchain.

Well, I'll caution you and say that aside from them maidsafe (http://maidsafe.net/) is doing more or less the same thing, has millions of dollars in backing, and has had a working system for years, just no way to monetize it until recently.  They're launching a monetized system in April.

see also this block entry
http://blog.maidsafe.net/2014/02/18/token-on-maidsafe-network/

I read it again!

I don't really understand, why do you think that any good idea can come only in one head? You probably think, that Marconi created radio, but it was Popov. Separate. No communications between them. So, this is our own idea, no hackathon or something else. Just this idea is in the air. Get and realize.

Next. You are that man, who decides, how much space is shared for encrypted files. Want to get more coins - give more space. Want to drop your file in network, but does not want to share space? Pay coins.

About proof of storage - did you ever heard about BitTorrent? Do you know how it works? Next - storage space is encrypted and has checksum.

I dont' need to delete anything. As I said before - IPO is opened till betas, and you'll see everything in alpha testnet.

Not the same chance - more space shared and faster channel - more profit. Profit spread out between all hosts by proportion of whole network space and channel speed and CPU resources to YOUR space, channel and CPU.

Someone has 20 millions of dollars in backing and just starting to create professional cryptocurrency exchange, someone does not have 20 mlns and already started http://www.upbit.org/en//

But thanks for your caution. We just starting, and we think it's real to make something like this.

Why you decieded, that files encrypted and decrypted in blockchain?

you can send IPO when testnet started, whats the problem?

this is a good idea, but clearly op doesnt understand what the community has been through with IPOS over the last months. nore does he know proper english to correctly answer all of the questions that will be needed to be answered, before you should even think people would want to spend money on your IPO
you cant expect people to give money, until theirs SET PROOF that SOMETHING IS REALLY BEING WORKED ON. PICTURES, WHATEVER, but opening an IPO before tesnet/any real proof, is going to lower your odds of acceptance into this community greatly
everyone knows by now, that if you and your team were 100% legitamite, youd go along the route of ethereum and other major IPOS, with TONS OF INFO before the IPO starts, and tons of proof of work/research/ANY PROOF that you guys HAVE been working on SOMETHING
and EVEN THEN, if people were going to buy into your IPO, WHY would they do it now, with no extra incentive, rather than wait till laiter when theirs at least SOME shred of proof something is being worked on that has potential
i wish this the best of luck, tho. i like the idea of it :)

Of course. When it's working prototype - source will be opened.

Oh so you haven't even written the code even. Good luck. Anyone can write ideas down but few can actually execute them. Nice job avoiding all of my questions.

Everybody move on.

When this type of coin will be published — i'm in! Got more unused HDDs, than videocards. :D

Do you understand difference between "working prototype" (something like beta stage) and buggy alpha?

Corrected IPO rules for everybody.

IPO coins need to be banned. It's worse than scam kickstarters.

As I said, we are at stage 0, and IF there is some investors, who wants to see stage 1 faster (because of hiring additional programmer), welcome. IF not - stage 1 will be a little bit later.

interested in

Fun, bro

Cool bro response, bro.  Bro me again.

Send me 420 BTC again and, you are bro-bro-bro! ;-)

what is the minimum u can send

message me on skype when you get a chance?

I think this is an interesting idea and I hope to hear updates as they become available.

Side note: I was there during the Texas Hackaton and this project is different on both a technology and conceptual level. Keep up the great work guys, you have an innovative concept here

Haters gonna hate.

Any new on this? It´s a very interesting project I also have been thinking about.

I would rather my data encrypted on other peoples machines then saved in any single companies hands un encrypted.  Sign me up.  thx. whoever said this idea was not wise at all does not understand how encryption works and should go away.

thanks for bumping this dead? thread

The IPO is end?

thread end

haha they want the long IPO ever

What's the status of this coin?

is this real?

tobeaj2mer01
You guys revived a thread after of one year. This one is RIP

yup is this real dead  ;D

I have tried to synchronized my wallet but without success. Is there a good list with working nodes?

Sounds really intersting. I don't think its a scam

Anything goinon here?

helloooooo how work goes?

Here's the greatest part.  It's now 2017 and they're supposedly doing an ICO next week???

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/07/19/filecoin-ico-launching-next-week-aims-to-resolve-token-sale-problems/#4c31bfcf384b

The heck have they been doing since 2014 ?

The idea is great but you're absolutely right, what have they been doing all this time? Do we have the name of the leaders or the dev team?

I think this is different from the current filecoin ICO ?

And the rich get richer. Coinbase, Winkelvoss twins what a way to do an ICO ! What a violation of the whole decentralized movement. Lets get the government involved and KYC/AML so we can pay taxes. WTH Juan lost my respect with this

Interested, i read some pages but i cant find information about the total supply, anyone knows it ?

Stop believing in every scam projects that promises you a decentralized network, signs of scam are lack of community interest, company or development team spending no money on massive advertising, a dead thread like this one.
Have you ever asked yourself if they are promising a very cheap encrypted decentralized storage, where do we fit in when it comes for us to be the hosts for file storing? people want the cheapest and the safest, then where is our earned money coming from? obviously not from buyers.
Besides if we want to host files we would have paid 10 times more bills than any large data centers, so being cheap and decentralized doesn't work together.

Protocol Labs Raises $52 Million in Filecoin “Advisor Sale” ICO, Public Offering is Available Now on CoinList

https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2017/08/120321-protocol-labs-raises-52-million-in-filecoin-advisor-sale-ico-public-offering-is-available-now-on-coinlist/

wow, this is so popcorn style cinema here :)

ill keep on watching how the trolling will advance in a near 2+ year dead thread :) rofl

Wow!
We are waiting for details!

An initial coin offering (ICO) for the blockchain data storage network Filecoin has raised an estimated $200 million from accredited investors despite being beset by technology issues.

The figures add to the roughly $52 million in tokens sold in a pre-sale to investors like Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures, announced last week. However, at press time, the ICO – which is being conducted via CoinList, a joint project between startup investment platform AngelList and Filecoin developer Protocol Labs – is paused.

https://www.coindesk.com/200-million-60-minutes-filecoin-ico-rockets-record-amid-tech-issues/

I have read about it to, didn't know this project started in 2014 and died the same year..  ???

I wanna know this filecoin is greedy ipfs? A few years ago no one seems concerned about the coin, now the bull-market, so once again released greedy ico, vampire!

Initial coin offering (ICO) investments have exploded in 2017, surpassing early venture capital (VC) funding for internet companies. Individual funding totals have ratcheted up throughout the year. In June, Bancor raised a then-record $153 million; today, that might be considered a disappointing haul for a high-profile crowdsale. EOS and Tezos quickly surpassed Bancor, raising $185 million and $232 million, respectively, during July. Now, the Filecoin ICO is leaving those token sales in the dust.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/filecoin-ico-raises-record-250-million-from-accredited-investors/

See our ICO review of Filecoin - https://coins.best/ico-reviews/filecoin/
Any kind of feedback is welcome - feel free to comment on the review itself

Was going to invest, but then came across this analysis:

https://tokeneconomy.co/the-analysis-filecoin-doesnt-want-you-to-read-e60d5243f17c


Guess I am staying away from this one :)

EOS ICO is still ongoing. Nobody is going to top it any time soon. There are 1 billion tokens being sold and only the first 20% were sold below 1$. Filecoin has raised considerable sums considering the fact that only 30% of the tokens are being sold off (to VC's), the rest will be for participants in the network

Protocol labs has filed two Form D’s with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pertaining to their ongoing Initial Coin Offering listed (ICO) on CoinList. The ICO is for the issuance of their FileCoin Token and their distributed data storage network.

Filecoin stands at over $200 million raised to date – an incredible sum. The ICO received significant interest from big name VC’s that jumped aboard early with a pre-sale that landed over $50 million. The public offer has since added more than $150 million to the total.

https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2017/08/121075-protocol-labs-files-two-form-ds-sec-regarding-enormous-filecoin-ico/

New way to perform mining.
I think this is a brand new method, mining with using file storage.
Good job dev.

The   concept of this project is positive. They also has their own protocols to make sure what comes from their factory will be great.

Actually it is not new. You can do that with other coins too e.g. StorJ.

I hope they will soon give out more details about mining.

I was hoping to see a lot of activities here but unfortunately I can not find participant talking about their token? What's going on ?

This looks dead.

congrats, Filecoin!
Great job on breaking the record.

Here is my short visual overview of the project, please let me know what you think!
https://medium.com/@StorifierCo/what-is-filecoin-b1adb8a9117d (https://medium.com/@StorifierCo/what-is-filecoin-b1adb8a9117d)

Filecoin don't even need an ANN thread. They are bossing it like this without one :D. I remember reading about the project many months ago and loved the idea except the obvious part where a small time 'investor' such as myself did not stand a chance to participate in any of these exclusive "ICO"s.

Their approach to the ICO though was quite interesting and I would not say too bad either. If I were a big time investor I would have loved to participate in this even if just for the exclusivity it brings initially. Would be interesting to follow how the project develops.

I just don't see why this project get so much attention. It isn't a lot different to other projects like SiaCoin, Burst or StorJ. Although I like the mentioned projects, I don't this that all will survive the next months / years since it is a very difficult market. I don't see any of them being able to compete against Amazon etc.

The ICO in 2014?
I'd like to know if this project succeed? ???

WoW!   :)
In the whole world know the record of the project FILECOIN:

https://forklog.com/proekt-filecoin-zavershil-ico-s-rekordnym-pokazatelem-v-257-mln/

Followed) nice blog.

The much-hyped initial coin offering for decentralized storage project Filecoin concluded on Thursday. Despite being open only to accredited investors, the Filecoin ICO raised $257 million, shattering the previous record for a token crowdsale.

Simply put, Filecoin plans to leverage unused data center and hard drive storage space to build a decentralized storage network. In exchange for contributing extra storage space to the network, users will receive Filecoin tokens which can then be exchanged for other currencies. Conversely, those in need of storage can purchase tokens and exchange them for storage space. Purportedly, this will drastically lower the cost of cloud storage.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/257-million-filecoin-ico-shatters-crowdsale-record/

It seems a project borned for big whales and now it's time to dump this shit above us. I will not invest in it.

Wow, how original .....

How could they get sooo much money once again?!

Yesterday, the inaugural Initial Coin Offering (ICO) hosted on CoinList, Filecoin, closed at over $200 million raised. Crowdfund Insider reported at the end of August that two Form D’s were filed with the SEC indicating Filecoin probably closed at around $210 million. While the ICO was not without a few glitches and bumps along the tokenized path, the offer marks an interesting chapter in the world of crypto-based securities. Filecoin reported that investors from more than 50 countries participated in the offer. The “Advisor Sale” raised about $52 million before the public launch. The Filecoin (FIL) token is the native crypto token of the Filecoin network, similar to Bitcoin. Filecoin will be used to pay for storage, retrieval, and transactions in the distributed data storage network envisioned by the creators. It will also be easily transferable to other currencies on various exchanges.

https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2017/09/121628-filecoin-ico-closes-200-million-raised/

Is Filecoin working. Can I lend out unused HDD space.

I just had a read about Filecoin a while ago. Why is the coin is not tradeable? Is there any locking periods for this coin that's why it's not that usable as of now?

Hi,
Would like to have an article on icohotel.com?
Contact Mike Lagrange if you're interested.
Mike@icohotel.com

When is filecoin (Fil)listed？

There is non available Filecoin token in the market. I'm also finding one out to track the price and maybe start buying and seeling but there's none you can find about it. Even the information on listing in exchange have no information at all.

When can we try their product? If they alive?

there´s 2 exchanges selling IOU´s right now

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/filecoin/


gate.io
lbank.info

The futures were trading at $24 today. There is zero info available about mining this. I would like to get started before everyone rushes into this

is this a real coin?  ;D  ~thanks!

Hello!
Is it an official FileCoin thread?
Looks not crowdy

This isn't the official thread of FileCoin. There are actually less information that you can have here regarding Filecoin.

so where i can find more information about them?? anyone please?

Even i, find it hard to have answers to your question. There are only less information available. Because mostly, their investors are private so it didn't actually make it public. Just like what Cardano did when they conduct their ICO.

thank you for your reply. so we completely lessknown about this project and how to know they are really build for something like this.
i love their idea and their goal. what is called IPSF? it is really amazing

So, where is my 69.5 BTC? :-) I'm still waiting!