IPFS, Filecoin and the Vision for a Decentralized Web - Part 2

Filecoin is a peer-to-peer network data storage network, with built-in economic incentives for storage providers. It facilitates open-markets for storing and retrieving data, in which anyone can participate. Users can pay the network to access storage space, which can be encrypted, replicated, and highly available. After years of development and iteration, Filecoin recently launched its mainnet. The long term vision of the protocol is a fully decentralized future for the web.

This show we deep dive in to the technical aspects of Filecoin, how Juan and his team decided to design it, and the types of projects that are building on top of it.

Topics:

• How Filecoin works under the hood and the life cycle of data
• The role of miners in the protocol
• The bridge between Filecoin and Ethereum
• How the economics of Filecoin were designed
• How governance works in the Filecoin network
• The Filecoin Foundation
• The projects that are building on top of Filecoin
• Juan’s views on blockchain scalability and Ethereum 2.0, and the challenges Web3 faces

Links:

• Filecoin website
• Protocol Labs website
• IPFS website
• Episode #367 with Juan Benet (Part 1 in this series)
• Episode #100 with Juan Benet
• Filecoin on Twitter