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Comment by ChrisClark

I know every mention of this seems to get downvoted because it's a cryptocurrency, but that's what the second half of the IPFS plan is, FileCoin. They've found a way to incentivize storing files by allowing people to 'mine' FileCoin. Mining in this sense isn't a waste of energy, or staking of coins. It's proving you have available space and proving you're making duplications of the data. This causes a race to the bottom for the pricing of storage while balancing it out with reliability.

If you want to host your website on IPFS, pop it up on a domain through Cloudflare and set up a bid for storage space.

parent ChrisClark 8 years ago

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