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I can understand why -- with all the scams out there -- that would be one reaction. But note that Filecoin makes important technical contributions on top of the Bitcoin protocol. You can read the paper here: http://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf

FWIW, we aren't really anonymous. Neither in the storj case (you can find who they are in their website), nor in the Filecoin case. (hi!)

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Apologies for being skeptical, your whitepaper does seem to be more indepth unlike the Storj scam which will probably unravel soon

If this filecoin does take off and does what is being promised I will personally add hundreds of terrabytes of storage from our storage servers.

But seeing what Storj are doing I am extremely sceptical so please understand where I am coming from.

Understood! Stay tuned :) We're working hard to upgrade internet infrastructure with the nice properties cryptocurrencies can give us.

And, by the way, see http://static.benet.ai/t/ipfs.pdf -- https://github.com/jbenet/ipfs -- Filecoin's sister protocol.

Howdy! So this, I take it, is you? :) http://juan.benet.ai/about/

In any case, congrats on the launch. I've only skimmed the white paper so far, but the filecoin.io concept looks promising.

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