More resilient and user-controlled than the AWS: Colin Evran's vision for Fil...

More resilient and user-controlled than the AWS: Colin Evran's vision for Fil...

“Filecoin is more than just storage, one can think of it as an Airbnb for cloud services." In the beginning of 2021, Filecoin was a relatively unknown decentralized peer-to-peer storage service with a total network capacity barely making a dent in the digital storage space. Less than two years later, the Filecoin team claimsthe blockchain has grown to eclipse 10% of the storage capacity of Amazon Web Service, the most popular vendor in the cloud infrastructure services market. This includes use of the storage — by well known blockchain firms such as OpenSea and Magic Eden — of some 239.03....


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