I just came across Filecoin on their Github readme FAQ and it sounds like a great idea to me:
"What is the relation to Filecoin?
Filecoin is the sister protocol of IPFS. While neither protocol depends on each other, they are perfectly complementary. IPFS handles high performance distribution of objects; Filecoin handles incentivizing the world to backup/seed objects."
Cryptocurrency backed by real, useful, and valuable commodities (storage and bandwidth).
kindof, yeah. Zooko wanted to build a distributed data economy with mojo, i'm not too sure on what happened to it, but we have talked with zooko and other people on the tahoe-lafs project and they seem interested in working out some sort of interop between our systems.
"What is the relation to Filecoin?
Filecoin is the sister protocol of IPFS. While neither protocol depends on each other, they are perfectly complementary. IPFS handles high performance distribution of objects; Filecoin handles incentivizing the world to backup/seed objects."
Cryptocurrency backed by real, useful, and valuable commodities (storage and bandwidth).