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Title: Filecoin - Proof-of-Retrievability
Post by: jbenet on July 17, 2014, 02:55:21 PM
greetings all,

figured you'd be interested in this:

- http://filecoin.io/
- http://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf

cheers,
jbenet


Title: Re: Filecoin - Proof-of-Retrievability
Post by: AliceWonder on July 17, 2014, 03:06:39 PM
Um no, I'm not going to get busted providing storage for someone elses kiddie porn.

And cloud storage is so damn cheap I don't see many other uses for it.


Title: Re: Filecoin - Proof-of-Retrievability
Post by: fishy91 on July 17, 2014, 03:23:31 PM
What if you store something and the various computers storing your file are all offline? How do you get your file back? You could be waiting for days until one of them goes back online and starts mining again.


Title: Re: Filecoin - Proof-of-Retrievability
Post by: PartTimeLegend on July 17, 2014, 03:24:14 PM
I have about 3 zebibytes of storage at my disposal. If I ran this, I would likely be the entire network with the data centre.

So what is to prevent someone with my means performing this 51%+ attack?


Title: Re: Filecoin - Proof-of-Retrievability
Post by: fishy91 on July 17, 2014, 03:27:04 PM
This sounds like maidsafe coins's idea anyway. Is there any difference between the two coins?