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Filecoin update #15

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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions evaluations/filecoin.md
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Expand Up @@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ Dagger. It is not meant to be a criticism of Filecoin.
- Filecoin requires its own very specific blockchain, which influences a lot
of its design. There is tight coupling between the blockchain, storage
accounting, proofs and markets.
- Proof of spacetime is much more complex than simple challenges, and only
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I think a better wording would be that "proofs of space time are (by design) computationally intensive and non-parallelizable (afaik)"

required to make the blockchain work (§3.3, §6.2)
- A miners influence is proportional to the amount of storage they're
providing (§1.2), which is an incentive to become big. This could lead to
the same centralization issues that plague Bitcoin.
Expand All @@ -46,3 +44,6 @@ Dagger. It is not meant to be a criticism of Filecoin.
attacks.
- The addition of smart contracts (§7.1) feels like an unnecessary
complication.
- The data are stored in a non-readable (sealed) format (§3.4.2).
If the hosts doesn't store data in a duplicated, plain format,
the unsealing required to read them take a long time (1-5 hours).