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Defense contractor Lockheed Martin and the Filecoin Foundation have partnered to demonstrate the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) in space, the pair announced on Monday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. See related article: Filecoin explained: Decentralizing cloud storage for Web 3.0 Fast facts Filecoin is the economic incentive layer of the
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LongHash Ventures, Asia’s first Web3 Accelerator and one of Asia’s leading Web3 venture funds, is continuing its partnership with Protocol Labs, creator of Filecoin and IPFS,
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The two plan to identify a test mission by August 2022. Source
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Filecoin Foundation and MuckRock Seek to Integrate Decentralized Document Storage Source
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Filecoin’s critics point to the challenges of decentralized storage to say that “NFTs are no more permanent than any other part of the web.” But this oversimplifies the project, by insisting data be “permanent.” Of course, nothing is truly "permanent”; every system comes with its own set of tail risks
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The CoinDesk 20 list ranks the top cryptocurrencies by volume on trusted exchanges and is reconstituted quarterly. This quarter's reconstitution brings in Avalanche, Luna, Decentraland and Shiba Inu Coin, replacing Bitcoin Cash, EOS, Ethereum Classic and Filecoin. Source
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The company aims to help new miners lower their upfront cost by providing a FIL borrowing facility that requires collateral of as little as 10% of the total loan value. “By allowing for lower collateral, storage providers can allocate their funding to store [f]ilecoin+ deals, hardware and operations, rather than
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As NFTs continue their march into the mainstream, it’s important to know how these supposedly permanent digital assets stay that way – or not. IPFS (or the InterPlanetary File System) is a protocol that many NFTs (or non-fungible tokens) point to as their underlying asset. It’s part of the backbone
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“If bitcoin miners are interested, they could set up a database where their energy use and proof of renewable energy use are recorded,” said Ransil in an interview. “The open-source solutions we are building and helping to test – such as the Filecoin dashboard and the Energy Web tech stack
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Filecoin has officially become the storage collaborator for the Flow Blockchain. Filecoin said in an Oct. 13 announcement that the move was a part of a push to ensure holders' and issuers' NFTs are "securely available everywhere." The announcement follows from a previous move in August in Which Dapper Labs
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