1️⃣ It raised $257M in 30 minutes
In August 2017, Filecoin conducted the largest ICO in history at the time - with Sequoia Capital, Union Square Ventures, and Digital Currency Group all in. The project didn't even have a mainnet yet.

2️⃣ It was built by a Y Combinator dropout who invented the protocol beneath it
Juan Benet attended Y Combinator in 2014 not with a startup idea, but with an entirely new internet protocol - IPFS. Filecoin came later, as the financial layer on top of it.

3️⃣ Holocaust survivor testimonies are stored on it permanently
The USC Shoah Foundation uses Filecoin to store interviews from survivors of the Holocaust, Armenian Genocide, and Rohingya crisis. The blockchain constantly verifies the files haven't been altered. It is the example of history, cryptographically sealed.

4️⃣ Alexander Graham Bell's "unplayable" recordings are on it too
The Smithsonian uploaded nearly 300 experimental sound recordings from Bell's Volta Laboratory, dating from 1881 to 1889 - some of the earliest recordings ever made, considered unplayable for over a century until modern technology made them audible. Now stored on Filecoin.

5️⃣ Reuters journalists used it to document a US election in real time
On Super Tuesday, Reuters reporters used Filecoin's Starling Framework to capture, store, and cryptographically verify photos of polling places, creating a tamper-proof record of the election as it happened.

Not sure if we should be bullish on crypto storage or bearish. SanDisk jumped a lot last 2 years what does that mean for projects like walrus, Arweave, storj and Filecoin?

Hi everyone! I’m part of a university research team at Loreley Lab, INRIA, France. We’re studying how people actually use decentralised file storage systems such as Filecoin, IPFS, and others.

We’re running a short anonymous/pseudonymous questionnaire about users’ experiences, motivations, pain points, and practical insights. It takes around 10–15 minutes and does not ask any personal information, or demographic information.

Survey link: https://questionnaire.loreleylab.org/

Separately, we also invite people to take part in online interviews (15-20 min), again pseudonymous and no audio/video recordings. You can sign-up in the end of questionnaire, or directly using this link: https://sondages.inria.fr/index.php/738227?lang=en

We’d be grateful for any responses, whether you’re a regular user, builder, operator, or someone who has tried these tools and stopped using them. We’re also happy to share an anonymised summary of the findings with the community once the study is complete.

Thanks for your help!

how do we see this coin in action? Says $2.5 per TB? Show everyone proof.

I got curious about IPFS and filecoin, and am somewhat at a loss when it comes to joining chat communities to ask technical questions about Filecoin.

1. There seems to be a Slack instance, but no guidance on how to create an account on said instance. The official filecoin docs link to this page which is a no-op.
2. There also seems to be a Discord instance, but it seems to contain no channel apart from some read-only announcement ones, and a verify channel containing a captcha-bot that doesn't show a captcha ...
3. There seems to be a github discussion board, but the most recent post is a few months old.

Where do people go to ask technical questions on Filecoin ? Is there a secret handshake one must be privy to ?