Filecoin enforces tremendous waste, only a small portion of total network space is used for storage. The equipment needed to mine costs tens of thousands of dollars.
With Chia, anyone can farm with minimal electricity cost (after plotting).
With Chia, anyone can farm with minimal electricity cost (after plotting).
Having a low barrier to entry probably increases negative externalities overall. Not sure what your point is.
With BTC at least in theory it could be mostly powered by fully renewable resources, here it is resource heavy.
I suspect that overall it is not better than BTC, and will just cause btc-mania to inflict more misery in a new field.
It’s much more efficient to just have one large data enter with a reputation and trust. They have to store all of the data to keep their reputation.
You can really use some spare capacity for StorJ (I have a Jail with 2TB of disk space on my FreeNAS) but not at all for Filecoin.
StorJ: https://docs.storj.io/node/before-you-begin/prerequisites#ha...
Filecoin: https://docs.filecoin.io/mine/hardware-requirements/#general...