Now, Filecoin seems to, from the whitepaper, gotten it right. We all know of the tragedy of the commons. Their solution was an elegant way around that, by granting filecoin to whom share their bandwidth and local storage. And then, others will take your coin for duplicating files you want copied.

But right now, it doesnt exist. And IPFS still works flawlessly.

It's not clear to me that Filecoin is any more or less of a scam than Bitcoin, nor that involving "blockchains" adds any value at all in this case.

And if there was a filecoin scam in there I didn't notice it neither on my pc nor on my bank or cash.