IMO Filecoin is the most potentially revolutionary thing to come out of the IPFS space, and it or something like it may have impacts that extend beyond keeping content distributed. We badly need a safe, self-organizing, apparently-persistent storage mechanism.
What if a "universal basic income" meant "get paid for sharing your excess disk space"? This could even be made transparent similar to OS page caches, and then everyone with a computer + internet connection would be a participant.
What if a "universal basic income" meant "get paid for sharing your excess disk space"? This could even be made transparent similar to OS page caches, and then everyone with a computer + internet connection would be a participant.