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legendary
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March 04, 2024, 05:38:30 AM
#43
Honestly, I think File coin and silimsr coins which try to bring a decentralized solution to the storage of information in the cloud are a good idea. Though, one of the problems I have seen is the apparent apathy people have shown towards these decentralized solutions to the storage of information.
It seems people and companies continue to prefer to use centralized solutions like Google Drive, Amazon or even Apple, this is probably because the lack of awareness by the clients of the existence of decentralized options like Filecoin or Siacoin.

Also, anyone considering to invest in this coin need to keep in mind that storage, specially physical storage is getting cheaper with each year that comes and goes, so individual people will have less need to store their files and pictures in a cloud service, people already are getting drives and micro SD cards of more than 1 Terabyte each for one-time purchase. So beware of those two things which are definitely an obstacle for the massive adoption of decentralized storage Filecoin wants to bring to us.
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March 03, 2024, 03:19:57 PM
#42
Usually stay out of the altcoin world but since the op was @_act_ figure it's worth a comment.
As others have mentioned there are a few other coins that do things similar to filecoin.
Non of them are doing that well and in the end many will probably not make it.

Drives are getting cheap. Bulk storage is cheap. BUT if you are hosting a node and loose a drive even at cheap prices buying a drive is, using back of the napkin numbers about a 41 month payback. Figuring a 10TB drive is about $200 and you are making about $5 a month with it. That is a tough sell.
On a personal basis I can get a smaller cheaper drive for my own use.

For people who want the distributed private secure cloud storage it becoming a tougher sell since places that are not secure and distributed and private are becoming dirt cheap.
For $100 a year (or less) you can get Microsoft 365 Family which gets you 6 copies of office for people to use and 6 TB of storage.

That is what coins like this are up against. No it's not private or anything else. But it's cheap.
The payback on FIL mining is the most profitable of all known. The problem is that there is a huge barrier to entry... you need to spend tens of thousands of dollars on equipment and have tens of thousands of dollars worth of FIL coins at your disposal (this is a kind of guarantee that you will honor your obligations). But probably the biggest problem... is that even if you bought $100,000 worth of equipment, it will only work at full capacity in a year or so (that is, the first months of mining, your super expensive equipment will only work at 10% ... and with In time you will reach 100%).
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January 20, 2024, 03:02:41 PM
#41
Having analyzed this coin, one can express an ambiguous opinion, discussing its capabilities essentially will not give us anything if the project does not have technical development and prospects, the result in this case is always the same, negative. It is better to look for projects, but with a better economic structure, with a clear understanding of what it will look like in the near future.
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January 20, 2024, 02:38:37 PM
#40
I want to know your opinion about filecoin, this coin was created in 2017 if I guess right, it got to $238 in 2021 which was the ATH. As of today, the price is back to $4.5. That was a huge price drop, but I like the saying that a drop in price of a coin is an opportunity to buy, this is true for bitcoin because bitcoin will attain ATH, but not all altcoins were about to attain ATH. With what I am seeing about filecoin, I am thinking it can get to that price again which would be a huge opportunity, but I do not know much about the coin. Anyone that knows more about this coin can post here to let me know if the coin is worth going for or not. Thanks in advance.

From a technological perspective, it is one of the most demandable in the crypto space but from a tokenomics perspective it is trash. If you look at the price of the token you can be deceived because at $238, its FDV was massive which was reasonable to think so the holder dumped their token. I am bullish on its technology but there is still a massive token unlock happening so there will be continued selling pressure in the market. There are very few competitor projects in FIL so i am looking for a better alternative with healthy tokenomics.
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January 20, 2024, 01:42:20 PM
#39
I want to know your opinion about filecoin, this coin was created in 2017 if I guess right, it got to $238 in 2021 which was the ATH. As of today, the price is back to $4.5. That was a huge price drop, but I like the saying that a drop in price of a coin is an opportunity to buy, this is true for bitcoin because bitcoin will attain ATH, but not all altcoins were about to attain ATH. With what I am seeing about filecoin, I am thinking it can get to that price again which would be a huge opportunity, but I do not know much about the coin. Anyone that knows more about this coin can post here to let me know if the coin is worth going for or not. Thanks in advance.
As far as I can remember the price of FileCoin I noticed was in mid-October of last year when it was between $3-$4, now I see it above $5. I have very little experience with this coin. I think in the first week of this month when the price of Bitcoin went up, FileCoin pumped quite a bit and it went above $7. Currently the value of File Coin is slowly going down. Maybe its price may go up and down a bit further, I don't think it will return to ATH again. Such investment is actually a personal decision, risk can be done but I am not interested in investing in such coins for now.
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January 20, 2024, 11:28:07 AM
#38
Usually stay out of the altcoin world but since the op was @_act_ figure it's worth a comment.
As others have mentioned there are a few other coins that do things similar to filecoin.
Non of them are doing that well and in the end many will probably not make it.

Drives are getting cheap. Bulk storage is cheap. BUT if you are hosting a node and loose a drive even at cheap prices buying a drive is, using back of the napkin numbers about a 41 month payback. Figuring a 10TB drive is about $200 and you are making about $5 a month with it. That is a tough sell.
On a personal basis I can get a smaller cheaper drive for my own use.

For people who want the distributed private secure cloud storage it becoming a tougher sell since places that are not secure and distributed and private are becoming dirt cheap.
For $100 a year (or less) you can get Microsoft 365 Family which gets you 6 copies of office for people to use and 6 TB of storage.

That is what coins like this are up against. No it's not private or anything else. But it's cheap.

-Dave
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January 20, 2024, 04:37:36 AM
#37
I want to know your opinion about filecoin, this coin was created in 2017 if I guess right, it got to $238 in 2021 which was the ATH. As of today, the price is back to $4.5. That was a huge price drop, but I like the saying that a drop in price of a coin is an opportunity to buy, this is true for bitcoin because bitcoin will attain ATH, but not all altcoins were about to attain ATH. With what I am seeing about filecoin, I am thinking it can get to that price again which would be a huge opportunity, but I do not know much about the coin. Anyone that knows more about this coin can post here to let me know if the coin is worth going for or not. Thanks in advance.
I have heard about filecoin before but never analyzed it myself. If I were to form my opinion on FileCoin I would say not to invest. FileCoin once made a new ATH all-time high, but is currently down from there. There must be a bigger reason behind File Coin losing so much value. Unique to Bitcoin's market growth, altcoins have largely recovered their prices, but filecoins haven't recovered much from those highs. Currently File Coin is priced at $5.44. FileCoin's price peaked at $430(Follow Binance). From here you can consider how much these few stocks can recover in the future. But if one can invest with his own opinion and own risk then surely you can invest.
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January 19, 2024, 06:16:10 PM
#36
I want to know your opinion about filecoin, this coin was created in 2017 if I guess right, it got to $238 in 2021 which was the ATH. As of today, the price is back to $4.5. That was a huge price drop, but I like the saying that a drop in price of a coin is an opportunity to buy, this is true for bitcoin because bitcoin will attain ATH, but not all altcoins were about to attain ATH. With what I am seeing about filecoin, I am thinking it can get to that price again which would be a huge opportunity, but I do not know much about the coin. Anyone that knows more about this coin can post here to let me know if the coin is worth going for or not. Thanks in advance.
My friend that thought of you thinking file coin getting to it all time high again, is what makes altcoins investment to be a gamble, because just as you mentioned in you comment that you are sure that bitcoin will make another all time high price, but unsure of altcoin, this statement point out the level of risk of one decide to invest in those coins simply because their have dropped significantly from their all time high price.

You need to be very careful when choosing such coins for investment, I prefer to invest in new projects that got the hype than buying those coins that have already experienced a dump in their price previously.
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January 19, 2024, 05:36:24 PM
#35
This Filecoin, thread was discussed in 2022, and it has been resurrected today, so I think that if it's still discussed today then it could still have relevance, although I've not researched it, but if it's price is still in dip, then it's ok for it's investors to still be hopeful of it to pump. Remember that Solana, dipped quite low and it's investors kept holding until late last year when it made a big comeback, so if a crypto is not a shitcoin, then it'll surely pump again despite how long it stays on the low.

No coin is dead if the Blockchain is up and running. What only dies is mainstream demand/interest from investors and traders alike. I've seen "dead coins" rise from the ground up after the hype. Filecoin may not be as widely used as other coins, but it's still a good alternative against existing centralized cloud storage platforms. It can compete with Amazon, Google, and Dropbox if the community turns it into a "force to reckon with".

What the project needs is a strong marketing/promotion strategy to help drive demand for the coin across mainstream crypto exchanges. Hopefully, Filecoin would be able to stand the test of time alongside other projects such as Sia, and Storj. We can't predict the future, so lets hope for the best. Wink
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January 18, 2024, 05:39:53 PM
#34
I want to know your opinion about filecoin, this coin was created in 2017 if I guess right, it got to $238 in 2021 which was the ATH. As of today, the price is back to $4.5. That was a huge price drop, but I like the saying that a drop in price of a coin is an opportunity to buy, this is true for bitcoin because bitcoin will attain ATH, but not all altcoins were about to attain ATH. With what I am seeing about filecoin, I am thinking it can get to that price again which would be a huge opportunity, but I do not know much about the coin. Anyone that knows more about this coin can post here to let me know if the coin is worth going for or not. Thanks in advance.
The past years, atleat we've learnt our lessons. Hitting All-Time high was the goal for these altcoins but any retracement back to ATL is mainly a big sign of bear and I wouldn't invest in projects that takes time to pump and dump. The only project I intend to keep for long period are bitcoin and Ethereum. Filecoin is another dump project I can possibly think of because the hugh dropped was not necessary. We know how terrible the bear market can be and how vulnerable we become when we see with our naked eyes, our portfolio bleeding from the heavy losses recorded.
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January 18, 2024, 03:35:47 PM
#33
Op what you said is the truth but not for altcoins oh. When altcoins comes down or drop in price it will be very hard to it to rise again and if it rise up again it will take time and years to come before it will rise. Altcoins is not like Bitcoin that has periodic to fall and rise. This altcoins that you made mentioned here is new to me because this the first time I am hearing about it. And I believed it's because the dropped in price and if the price was still in the $238 as of the 2021, it would have been also trending in the ecosystem. As the price reduced, people became afraid and transferred their coins to another projects.

And this is one of the disadvantages of investing in altcoins because people that invested in the time when the price was going up to the $238 and thinking that the price would pump up but contradiction was the result for them. So most of them left the project nto another good project. Really as you said, people are just waiting for Bitcoin to drop in price so that they will invest massively and in this time when Bitcoin will start his bear market, many people will join the investment and the individual and group adoption of Bitcoin will be very high.
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January 18, 2024, 02:50:15 PM
#32

This Filecoin, thread was discussed in 2022, and it has been resurrected today, so I think that if it's still discussed today then it could still have relevance, although I've not researched it, but if it's price is still in dip, then it's ok for it's investors to still be hopeful of it to pump. Remember that Solana, dipped quite low and it's investors kept holding until late last year when it made a big comeback, so if a crypto is not a shitcoin, then it'll surely pump again despite how long it stays on the low.

Indeed, Filecoin is not a worthless project, it is certainly a good choice for investing, given its practical applications. You talked about Solana, I have been loyal holder of it during the whole period of bearish market, eventually it staged a comeback. I continued holding it as I believe that its true potential is yet to fully realized

Therefore, just as Solana regained its lost glory, Filecoin could follow the same trajectory. DYOR
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January 18, 2024, 01:16:58 PM
#31
Some coins show increase in price but this increase is temporary and it never shows such huge price again so I don't think that file coin will ever go to higher worth but still its up to you, if you wants to do investment in it then choice is yours.

You can hold it longer and may be the price once again goes higher but I will suggest that choose coins with solid foundation and previous success history because not every coin again attain the same upward price in their life span.

Such a huge drop is exactly an opportunity to buy coins in affordable price but buy file coin by keeping in mind that more dump will not make you sad because In crypto market everything is possible.
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January 18, 2024, 11:20:16 AM
#30
I remember Filecoin was once a talk of the town I personally like their concept and I had my bets on Filecoin and Sia coin back in days and Sia coin couldn't capitalize but File coin did went on a rally during 2021 bull run and ever since it has not been able to recover back to even 10% it's ATH but we have seen gradual and continuous price increase especially this year. I am kinda fine investing into Filecoin as it has real life use case and it has one more opportunity in upcoming bull run. I would give it a try once again.
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January 18, 2024, 11:03:17 AM
#29
Ain't know much about this coin but AFAIK, this is a decentralized project, a decentralized file storage and sharing network which has a real utility that could be potentially used in the future.  As you can see, most crypto users now are trying to avoid centralized services that are related to crypto, it could be a decentralized sharing platform like this will boom next year and might be worth investing a little that you can afford.

I think this is worth a long-term investment and if you feel that, it's time to fill your bag while the price is very cheap.
It's sometimes good to do some research before putting your investment into a project but if you don't want to do this, go for the safest investment which is Bitcoin, there's no need to dig research because it's proven and tested.

I think File coin has good real life use case of practical application of data storage, which attracted me and I purchase that t few thousand File coins it in year-2022 when its price reached its bottom at around $3.5. Since then, It has demonstrated significant growth. I plan to continue holding it for the next anticipated potential bullish market which may lead to significant gains.

This Filecoin, thread was discussed in 2022, and it has been resurrected today, so I think that if it's still discussed today then it could still have relevance, although I've not researched it, but if it's price is still in dip, then it's ok for it's investors to still be hopeful of it to pump. Remember that Solana, dipped quite low and it's investors kept holding until late last year when it made a big comeback, so if a crypto is not a shitcoin, then it'll surely pump again despite how long it stays on the low.
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January 18, 2024, 10:31:58 AM
#28
Ain't know much about this coin but AFAIK, this is a decentralized project, a decentralized file storage and sharing network which has a real utility that could be potentially used in the future.  As you can see, most crypto users now are trying to avoid centralized services that are related to crypto, it could be a decentralized sharing platform like this will boom next year and might be worth investing a little that you can afford.

I think this is worth a long-term investment and if you feel that, it's time to fill your bag while the price is very cheap.
It's sometimes good to do some research before putting your investment into a project but if you don't want to do this, go for the safest investment which is Bitcoin, there's no need to dig research because it's proven and tested.

I think File coin has good real life use case of practical application of data storage, which attracted me and I purchase that t few thousand File coins it in year-2022 when its price reached its bottom at around $3.5. Since then, It has demonstrated significant growth. I plan to continue holding it for the next anticipated potential bullish market which may lead to significant gains.
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January 18, 2024, 08:40:28 AM
#27
I want to know your opinion about filecoin, this coin was created in 2017 if I guess right, it got to $238 in 2021 which was the ATH. As of today, the price is back to $4.5. That was a huge price drop, but I like the saying that a drop in price of a coin is an opportunity to buy, this is true for bitcoin because bitcoin will attain ATH, but not all altcoins were about to attain ATH. With what I am seeing about filecoin, I am thinking it can get to that price again which would be a huge opportunity, but I do not know much about the coin. Anyone that knows more about this coin can post here to let me know if the coin is worth going for or not. Thanks in advance.
what makes you think that filecoin can get to that price again? I saw this coin trading in Binance. but never traded it myself. I don't see anything special in file coin. I don't know why it reached to $2380 in all time high. the total supply is so huge which make me thing that was probably early day hype of that coin.
Mate I think if you are looking for good projects/coin then there are many other options you can consider. even if you want to invest in filecoin you can do that. but I would not suggest you to expect it to reach to all time high again. i don't think this coin is good for hodling for long term purpose.

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January 18, 2024, 08:18:29 AM
#26
I want to know your opinion about filecoin, this coin was created in 2017 if I guess right, it got to $238 in 2021 which was the ATH. As of today, the price is back to $4.5. That was a huge price drop, but I like the saying that a drop in price of a coin is an opportunity to buy, this is true for bitcoin because bitcoin will attain ATH, but not all altcoins were about to attain ATH. With what I am seeing about filecoin, I am thinking it can get to that price again which would be a huge opportunity, but I do not know much about the coin. Anyone that knows more about this coin can post here to let me know if the coin is worth going for or not. Thanks in advance.

I doubt Filecoin is going to reach a new ATH, especially when demand for decentralized cloud storage is at its lowest. Most people prefer to use centralized alternatives such as Google Drive, Amazon Glacier, and Dropbox. Why bother getting into something that has a steep learning curve?

That is true we could consider that the demand for storage is definitely growing as more and more data are being produced and thus needs to be stored in a safe and secure place some people especially those deep in the cryptocurrency scene the problem is filecoin does not seem to offer that much other benefits compared to centralized storages aside from of course it being decentralized

If it were to offer more such as lower fees then i could see filecoin increase
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January 18, 2024, 08:08:58 AM
#25
I want to know your opinion about filecoin, this coin was created in 2017 if I guess right, it got to $238 in 2021 which was the ATH. As of today, the price is back to $4.5. That was a huge price drop, but I like the saying that a drop in price of a coin is an opportunity to buy, this is true for bitcoin because bitcoin will attain ATH, but not all altcoins were about to attain ATH. With what I am seeing about filecoin, I am thinking it can get to that price again which would be a huge opportunity, but I do not know much about the coin. Anyone that knows more about this coin can post here to let me know if the coin is worth going for or not. Thanks in advance.

Filecoin is one of the potential coins we can make our investment in and hold for a longer period, if you look at most of the altcoins, almost all of them had their highest performance in 2021 and made it through their all time high, though everything now is under risk taking z we can decide to make an investment on it and take the risk away or decided not to if we think we cannot afford to risk our money on investing on it, but it's a coin that has a future prospects if we buy and hold, more to confirm from it's market stats.
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January 18, 2024, 07:39:42 AM
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I want to know your opinion about filecoin, this coin was created in 2017 if I guess right, it got to $238 in 2021 which was the ATH. As of today, the price is back to $4.5. That was a huge price drop, but I like the saying that a drop in price of a coin is an opportunity to buy, this is true for bitcoin because bitcoin will attain ATH, but not all altcoins were about to attain ATH. With what I am seeing about filecoin, I am thinking it can get to that price again which would be a huge opportunity, but I do not know much about the coin. Anyone that knows more about this coin can post here to let me know if the coin is worth going for or not. Thanks in advance.

I doubt Filecoin is going to reach a new ATH, especially when demand for decentralized cloud storage is at its lowest. Most people prefer to use centralized alternatives such as Google Drive, Amazon Glacier, and Dropbox. Why bother getting into something that has a steep learning curve? Not to mention, FIL's market prices are widely unstable. Just like any other altcoin being traded on the market today. Tech-wise, Filecoin could've been a strong competitor of Sia (another decentralized cloud storage platform). You should do your own research to determine what's best for your money in the long run.

The crypto/Blockchain industry is getting more exposure with the approval of spot ETFs lately, so maybe there's hope for decentralized cloud storage platforms after all? With increased mainstream adoption, Filecoin might survive for generations. No one can predict the future, so lets hope for the best. Just my opinion Smiley
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December 16, 2022, 10:59:09 PM
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I want to know your opinion about filecoin, this coin was created in 2017 if I guess right, it got to $238 in 2021 which was the ATH. As of today, the price is back to $4.5. That was a huge price drop, but I like the saying that a drop in price of a coin is an opportunity to buy, this is true for bitcoin because bitcoin will attain ATH, but not all altcoins were about to attain ATH. With what I am seeing about filecoin, I am thinking it can get to that price again which would be a huge opportunity, but I do not know much about the coin. Anyone that knows more about this coin can post here to let me know if the coin is worth going for or not. Thanks in advance.

Filecoin is just another cryptocurrency whose purpose is to safeguard a person's important files into the decentralized cloud. It's as similar as both Storj and Sia. Whenever Filecoin is a good or bad long-term investment, that's up to you to decide. Considering that Filecoin is an old project (5 years since its inception) that made it this far, I think it will last for generations. Many are saying decentralized cloud storage is the future, so maybe there's a chance Filecoin will get all of the attention it deserves someday? As long as you don't put all of your life savings into this cryptocurrency, there should be nothing to worry about. Just my thoughts Grin
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December 15, 2022, 09:10:29 PM
#22
Thank you all for your opinion. From what you have all posted on this thread, DCA on filecoin during this bear market would be good and profitable in the future. I am expecting this coin to be one of the coins that would achieve 10x  times of its price today by 2024 or 2025.

I think this is worth a long-term investment and if you feel that, it's time to fill your bag while the price is very cheap.
It's sometimes good to do some research before putting your investment into a project but if you don't want to do this, go for the safest investment which is Bitcoin, there's no need to dig research because it's proven and tested.
Going for bitcoin is very important, but if 70% of investment is in bitcoin already, it is not bad to use the remaining percent for altcoin investment. I just know that some altcoins are not worth going for, I have seen some with the little bull run recently, they are still sinking in price and value.
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December 12, 2022, 07:25:56 PM
#21
Ain't know much about this coin but AFAIK, this is a decentralized project, a decentralized file storage and sharing network which has a real utility that could be potentially used in the future.  As you can see, most crypto users now are trying to avoid centralized services that are related to crypto, it could be a decentralized sharing platform like this will boom next year and might be worth investing a little that you can afford.

I think this is worth a long-term investment and if you feel that, it's time to fill your bag while the price is very cheap.
It's sometimes good to do some research before putting your investment into a project but if you don't want to do this, go for the safest investment which is Bitcoin, there's no need to dig research because it's proven and tested.
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December 12, 2022, 07:24:59 PM
#20
What does it offer that other coins fail to give? How is it unique in any way while still offering a useful utility to people? Where does its value lie? Is it another one of those coins that perform better just because bitcoin, its direct counterpart, performs well? There are a lot of things to consider when trying to find a piece of gem in the cryptocurrency pile of junk. You have to think of a lot of things if you really want to get the most out of your investment. Not everything that once rose to the top has actual value within them.
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December 12, 2022, 07:11:35 PM
#19
Over rated coin. The price was going so high caused by it was getting pumped. There are some competitives for file coin but i don't even think to buy this coin even though the price has been dropping so hard cuased by it has not maximum supply. The total supply in the market keeps increasing over time.

You buy this and you may potentially lose your money for long term. It was even adding more 3 millions coins to the total supply recently. You shall think again to buy the coin with unlimited supply like that.
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December 12, 2022, 07:07:09 PM
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Filecoin has made all rich those who once invested in it on coinlist, it is one of the gems of 2021. The project does not look dead, even though it lost most of its value, but it still has an impressive capitalization and is now worth even below the price of ico. It's a good option to buy if you want to make 5-10x on this coin. Of course, this is not investment advice, DYOR. I bought some Filecoin, hopefully in a few years the price will be trading at $50-100 again.
Filecoin is much into discussion for the core purpose over which the project is being developed. It gained good number of investors and the people who were able to invest during its ICO got to be lucky. There is continued fluctuation, but it is considered as one of the strong project that could bring long term profit.

For now it is time to invest considering its ath. However it is quite hard to experience the previous ATH reached by filecoin. As suggested the investment will surely bring more than 5X return when the market turns bullish.
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December 12, 2022, 05:47:40 PM
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Filecoin has made all rich those who once invested in it on coinlist, it is one of the gems of 2021. The project does not look dead, even though it lost most of its value, but it still has an impressive capitalization and is now worth even below the price of ico. It's a good option to buy if you want to make 5-10x on this coin. Of course, this is not investment advice, DYOR. I bought some Filecoin, hopefully in a few years the price will be trading at $50-100 again.
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December 12, 2022, 02:40:43 PM
#16
Filecoin is one of the best cryptoprojects out there. It is a crypto solution that allows for decentralized cooperative storage systems to work as well as it also provides a decentralized payment network.  The idea of decentralized storage is something that is pretty much related to the initial Satosi's view for a decentralized world.

I believe that it is an amazing project that will bring a lot profit to many people.
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December 11, 2022, 08:55:54 PM
#15
I want to know your opinion about filecoin, this coin was created in 2017 if I guess right, it got to $238 in 2021 which was the ATH. As of today, the price is back to $4.5. That was a huge price drop, but I like the saying that a drop in price of a coin is an opportunity to buy, this is true for bitcoin because bitcoin will attain ATH, but not all altcoins were about to attain ATH. With what I am seeing about filecoin, I am thinking it can get to that price again which would be a huge opportunity, but I do not know much about the coin. Anyone that knows more about this coin can post here to let me know if the coin is worth going for or not. Thanks in advance.

Who wouldn't remember Filecoin, specially for those who have been in the market around that time?

It was really huge, lot of hype around this project and if I'm not mistaken, it was the first of it's kind so obviously very big. However, I forget how it went down, perhaps investors just grew tired of it or just shift around with other similar projects.

So personally, not a financial advise here, but the hype on Filecoin is gone and I don't see investors suddenly going back as like it was 2017 all over again, just saying.

Perhaps you can check their github: https://github.com/filecoin-project
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December 10, 2022, 02:05:53 PM
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It didn't inspire investors purchasing the idea of decentralized virtual storage. Probably people feel confortable with the traditional means of storing file that they saw no reason to adopt a new cryptocurrency for that. And it's understandable because there are many ways to store files online or offline in relatively safe ways.
I think NFT has succeeded in stealing the spotlight from all the advantages that cryptocurrencies can offer, and the advantage of centralized storage has not gained importance because cloud storage and other current methods work very efficiently and without problems, at least for the time being.

No one knows what will happen in the future, but I agree with you that it is a negative sign.
Yes, moreover there is still the "cold storage" alternative for those afraid of storing their files in cloud storage through the use of pen drives. Although they are obsolet, there is still people using them to protect more private and exclusive files, fearing they can be leaked if stored online. A desktop or laptop without internet access are also alternatives.
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December 10, 2022, 10:39:45 AM
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It didn't inspire investors purchasing the idea of decentralized virtual storage. Probably people feel confortable with the traditional means of storing file that they saw no reason to adopt a new cryptocurrency for that. And it's understandable because there are many ways to store files online or offline in relatively safe ways.
I think NFT has succeeded in stealing the spotlight from all the advantages that cryptocurrencies can offer, and the advantage of centralized storage has not gained importance because cloud storage and other current methods work very efficiently and without problems, at least for the time being.

No one knows what will happen in the future, but I agree with you that it is a negative sign.
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December 10, 2022, 09:01:49 AM
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For a currency which has already hit 238$ to hit 4,50$ is a very bad sign, despite being in a bearish market. For me it's a clear indicative filecoin's proposal has failed. It didn't inspire investors purchasing the idea of decentralized virtual storage. Probably people feel confortable with the traditional means of storing file that they saw no reason to adopt a new cryptocurrency for that. And it's understandable because there are many ways to store files online or offline in relatively safe ways.
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December 10, 2022, 06:51:50 AM
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As I said earlier, most of the alternative currencies fail to reach their previous highs, so do not try to build a future strategy based on these assumptions related to previous prices.

Filecoin project was promising in the past, but the market requirements are changing now, and therefore it may not succeed in reaching those heights, just as what the market wants in the year 2024 is different from the current need.

The best advice now is to invest only 10% of the money allocated to digital currencies in altcoins and focus on Bitcoin.
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December 10, 2022, 02:34:45 AM
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Anyone that knows more about this coin can post here to let me know if the coin is worth going for or not. Thanks in advance.

Because Filecoin is linked to a decentralized storage system, we know that Web 3.0 is currently having its own hype, right now we are only seeing very low prices for Filecoin (this is also in line with the bearish market), I personally has several pockets of Filecoin in preparation for the next Bull Market.

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Don't be too rude, mate. There's nothing wrong with him asking here, because that's what this forum was created for, if we have questions or discussions related to the crypto space, LOL.

I don't know much about this coin, but I read a little and realized that this is a payment system? But I was wondering how much this payment system is used at all?? In general, projects with payment systems are considered very successful, it seems to me! Since the cryptocurrency itself has a close connection with payment systems!

No mate, Filecoin does not have a close relationship with the payment system, it is more towards a storage system called IPFS (Interplanetary File System)
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December 09, 2022, 10:08:08 PM
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I don't know much about this coin, but I read a little and realized that this is a payment system? But I was wondering how much this payment system is used at all?? In general, projects with payment systems are considered very successful, it seems to me! Since the cryptocurrency itself has a close connection with payment systems!
Filecoin is a decentralized storage network and it's not built to be used as a payment method.

This altcoin already lost its value by around -98% (most altcoins do). I'm not a hater of this project but there are a lot of better ones to invest in instead of file coin.
If you can see it here: https://coinmarketcap.com/view/storage/
Filecoin is the top 1 in the storage category, which is got the highest market cap. This is the list that may help you if you are into decentralized storage projects.
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December 09, 2022, 07:59:50 PM
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Never heard this coin before but I’m curious why they reached that peak and then suddenly hits the bottom that much, it looks like the hype is over and this will be a real value of that project. The next thing you can do before you buy is to know their future plans and their development right now, if you can still see a good volume and a real progress for this site then you can buy some but if you think they are already stagnant, better to avoid and just look for other option.
Because almost every altcoin does that? And compared to other altcoins it's stayed quite high in the marketcap. So i don't see it failing. However i see Storj as a decent competition on fundamental level. Not because it's better because it's not, but because it's more newb friendly decentralized storage system then filecoin.
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December 09, 2022, 05:47:37 PM
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Never heard this coin before but I’m curious why they reached that peak and then suddenly hits the bottom that much, it looks like the hype is over and this will be a real value of that project. The next thing you can do before you buy is to know their future plans and their development right now, if you can still see a good volume and a real progress for this site then you can buy some but if you think they are already stagnant, better to avoid and just look for other option.
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December 09, 2022, 04:58:38 PM
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I don't know much about this coin, but I read a little and realized that this is a payment system? But I was wondering how much this payment system is used at all?? In general, projects with payment systems are considered very successful, it seems to me! Since the cryptocurrency itself has a close connection with payment systems!
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December 09, 2022, 01:21:16 PM
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Here is, in my opinions a well written article, explaining in details what filecoin performs and what problems it aims to solve : data storage, censorship, store and distribution of "humanity most valuable informations" ( as they claim).

"In essence, Filecoin’s IPFS system uses a peer-to-peer network to separate data from existing corporate control and possible censorship."

source : https://dailycoin.com/filecoin/
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December 09, 2022, 01:03:59 PM
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I want to know your opinion about filecoin, this coin was created in 2017 if I guess right, it got to $238 in 2021 which was the ATH. As of today, the price is back to $4.5. That was a huge price drop, but I like the saying that a drop in price of a coin is an opportunity to buy, this is true for bitcoin because bitcoin will attain ATH, but not all altcoins were about to attain ATH. With what I am seeing about filecoin, I am thinking it can get to that price again which would be a huge opportunity, but I do not know much about the coin. Anyone that knows more about this coin can post here to let me know if the coin is worth going for or not. Thanks in advance.

As far as i know the filecoin ICO broke all records back in 2017 because they have managed to collect 257 Million $ there. I think back then the price per token was 5$, so at the moment even the people that have participated in the ICO are in the loss zone. Of course when we enter a bull market then Filecoin will also start to rise again, but i am not sure if it will ever hit it's ATH again. First of all there are still millions and millions of tokens owned by investors of the ICO which means as soon as Filecoin will rise again and cross the 5$ mark they are in the profit zone again and they will slowly but surely begin to sell off.
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December 09, 2022, 10:04:11 AM
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Anyone that knows more about this coin can post here to let me know if the coin is worth going for or not. Thanks in advance.
Ive been caught up by this coin before, I think. I bought some of this coin during its $37 and then thats it. The price continous to go down until now so Ive accept the loss of it but I dont have some funds for doing dca maybe the downtrend could be the lack of activity om their part but their technology is also good though.
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December 09, 2022, 09:32:01 AM
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You want to know much about the coin?

Then, you can research by your self. Why is it so hard to do that, you have Internet resources right? you can just search on google about "Filecoin". First action you can do by reading on their website & whitepaper.

Understand what they offer & try to be solved it.
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December 09, 2022, 09:20:18 AM
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I want to know your opinion about filecoin, this coin was created in 2017 if I guess right, it got to $238 in 2021 which was the ATH. As of today, the price is back to $4.5. That was a huge price drop, but I like the saying that a drop in price of a coin is an opportunity to buy, this is true for bitcoin because bitcoin will attain ATH, but not all altcoins were about to attain ATH. With what I am seeing about filecoin, I am thinking it can get to that price again which would be a huge opportunity, but I do not know much about the coin. Anyone that knows more about this coin can post here to let me know if the coin is worth going for or not. Thanks in advance.
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