Filecoin is a peer-to-peer network data storage network, with built-in economic incentives for storage providers. It facilitates open-markets for storing and retrieving data, in which anyone can participate. Users can pay the network to access storage space, which can be encrypted, replicated, and highly available. After years of development and iteration, Filecoin recently launched its mainnet. The long term vision of the protocol is a fully decentralized future for the web.

Juan Benet, Founder & CEO of Protocol Labs, returns for the second part of this 2-part episode. In this show we deep dive in to the technical aspects of Filecoin, how Juan and his team decided to design it, and the types of projects that are building on top of it.

Topics covered in this episode:

How Filecoin works under the hood and the life cycle of data
The role of miners in the protocol
The bridge between Filecoin and Ethereum
How the economics of Filecoin were designed
How governance works in the Filecoin network
The Filecoin Foundation
The projects that are building on top of Filecoin
Juan’s views on blockchain scalability and Ethereum 2.0, and the challenges Web3 faces

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This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/368

Juan Benet: Protocol Labs – IPFS, Filecoin and the Vision for a Decentralized Web (Part 2 of 2)