Filecoin: A Decentralized Storage Network

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filecoin : A Decentralized Storage NetworkProtocol LabsJanuary 2, 2018AbstractThe internet is in the middle of a revolution: centralized proprietary services are being replaced withdecentralized open ones; trusted parties replaced with verifiable computation; brittle location addressesreplaced with resilient content addresses; inefficient monolithic services replaced with peer-to-peer algo-rithmic markets. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other blockchain networks have proven the utility of decen-tralized transaction ledgers. These public ledgers process sophisticated smart contract applications andtransact crypto-assets worth tens of billions of dollars. These systems are the first instances of internet-wide Open Services, where participants form a Decentralized Network providing useful services for pay,with no central management or trusted parties.

The markets are operated by the Filecoin network which employs Proof-of-Spacetime and Proof-of-Replication to guarantee that miners have correctly stored the data they committed to store. Finally, miners can participate in the creations of new blocks for the underlining blockchain. ... nd matching orders via Put:MatchOrders (b)send le to the ...

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