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Two important advantages Filecoin has over bunglemudgeons are:

1. Filecoin has a market with liquidity. Archive.org could sell their coins for roughly $9.7m.

2. Filecoin can currently be used to purchase reliable cloud storage at a significantly lower cost than AWS or GCP.

I can definitely relate to cynicism towards crypto/blockchain, particularly in the defi sector, but Filecoin is doing good work.

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> Filecoin can currently be used to purchase reliable cloud storage at a significantly lower cost than AWS or GCP.

I spent a little while looking at their site and docs, and I cant find any information on what storage actually costs. Where are you finding this information?

There isn’t really a single price. Each miner sets their prices dynamically (off-chain). Some miners set ridiculous prices to scare off load and some even set their prices to zero to attract test deal traffic. Miners have different reliability and business strategies too. If you look at average prices for asks or deals, it can be very misleading.

They should take the 9.7 million and manage the storage themselves. The thing is they could host filecoin rigs which also provide the storage so it’s a win win for Filecoin and also internet archive

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