{"id":36648,"date":"2021-02-18T12:16:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T10:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36648"},"modified":"2025-08-29T07:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:23:21","slug":"filecoin-network-capacity-reaches-2-5-billion-gigabytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/filecoin-network-capacity-reaches-2-5-billion-gigabytes\/","title":{"rendered":"Filecoin network capacity reaches 2.5 billion gigabytes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The capacity of the decentralized data storage platform Filecoin has reached 2.5 billion gigabytes. That is the equivalent of 11,250 copies of Wikipedia or 47 copies of the Internet Archive.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\ude4c \u00abThe Filecoin network continues to grow \u2014 now its storage capacity equals thousands of copies of Wikipedia and tens of copies of the Internet Archive.\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/decryptmedia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@decryptmedia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kex7eJ3sqy\">https:\/\/t.co\/kex7eJ3sqy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Filecoin (@Filecoin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Filecoin\/status\/1362251495870259202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This achievement marks a turning point for Filecoin and the popularisation of Web 3.0. Its aim of building an efficient, secure, censorship-free network is being realised before our eyes,&#8221; commented Colin Evran, head of the Filecoin ecosystem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>https:\/\/forklog.com\/chto-takoe-filecoin\/<\/p>\n<p>Filecoin has created incentives for users to store data and for IPFS (&#8220;InterPlanetary File System&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The Protocol Labs-founded blockchain startup behind Filecoin is working on interoperability with IPFS and believes the two projects will develop in tandem. In January access to this protocol appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/brave-adds-ipfs-support\">privacy-focused Brave<\/a> browser.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, Joseph Lubin, head of Ethereum company ConsenSys, announced the creation of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/joseph-lubin-announces-creation-of-consensys-mesh-to-advance-web-3-0-and-defi\">a new company to develop Web 3.0 and DeFi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in an exclusive ForkLog interview, co-founder and CEO of Blockstack Munib Ali expressed confidence that the future of Web 3.0 is inextricably linked with Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The capacity of the decentralized data storage platform Filecoin has reached 2.5 billion gigabytes. It is equivalent to 11,250 copies of Wikipedia or 47 copies of the Internet Archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1488,1418],"class_list":["post-36648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-filecoin-fil","tag-ipfs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36650,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36648\/revisions\/36650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}