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Filecoin: A Cryptocurrency Operated File Storage Network

The historic library's filecoin.pdf is an earlier sketch. The title in the old index is a cryptocurrency-operated file storage network.

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Authors
Not named in this record
Date
Described in this library as a 2014 sketch, earlier than the July 2017 paper.
Publisher
Not named in this record
Version
Historic filecoin.pdf. Distinct from the July 2017 Protocol Labs paper.
Document ID
BLC-PDF-0009
DOI
None recorded
Last reviewed
1 October 2026
Licence
No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

No hash is published. This build does not store those PDF bytes, so a checksum would be invented. Where a legacy path exists, it points at the Internet Archive copy of the old library.

Direct answer

The historic library's filecoin.pdf is an earlier sketch. The title in the old index is a cryptocurrency-operated file storage network.

Protocol Labs' July 2017 paper is a different document, with its own study and corpus record. Authors of the sketch were not re-read from the file.

Why it is in the corpus

  • Keeping the two files apart stops a citation of the sketch being passed off as the 2017 market design.

Where to read

Legacy path remains. Do not cite it as the 2017 paper.

Full text

Full text is not published on this page. Public availability is not a licence to republish a document. Blockchain Lab has not recorded a licence that permits an HTML transcription, a training set, or a retrieval corpus of the paper. Text on this page is Blockchain Lab's own wording, or a pointer to a study that is also Blockchain Lab's wording.

Claims and assumptions

Blockchain Lab's reading of what the document is doing. Not a quotation and not the source text.

  • The library treats this as storage paid in a coin. It does not treat it as the 2017 proofs paper.

Assumptions

  • The file was not re-opened. The distinction from 2017 is the library's own.

What changed

The 2017 paper replaced this sketch as the document to cite for the storage market.

Relationships

Cite this record

These citations point at the source document. They are not a licence to copy it.

Author–date

Not named in this record (2014). Filecoin: A Cryptocurrency Operated File Storage Network. Not named in this record. https://www.filecoin.io/assets/documents/filecoin.pdf

BibTeX

@techreport{filecoin20142014,
  title = {Filecoin: A Cryptocurrency Operated File Storage Network},
  author = {Not named in this record},
  year = {2014},
  institution = {Not named in this record},
  url = {https://www.filecoin.io/assets/documents/filecoin.pdf},
  note = {Rights status: Rights uncertain. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/filecoin-2014}
}

RIS

TY  - RPRT
TI  - Filecoin: A Cryptocurrency Operated File Storage Network
AU  - Not named in this record
PY  - 2014
PB  - Not named in this record
UR  - https://www.filecoin.io/assets/documents/filecoin.pdf
N1  - Rights status: Rights uncertain
ER  -

CSL-JSON

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    "title": "Filecoin: A Cryptocurrency Operated File Storage Network",
    "author": [
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        "literal": "Not named in this record"
      }
    ],
    "issued": {
      "date-parts": [
        [
          2014
        ]
      ]
    },
    "publisher": "Not named in this record",
    "URL": "https://www.filecoin.io/assets/documents/filecoin.pdf",
    "note": "Rights status: Rights uncertain. Not a licence to republish the paper."
  }
]

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Rights record

Source status
Historic library path only
Use status
Legacy path remains. Do not cite it as the 2017 paper.
Rights
Rights uncertain
Training and retrieval
Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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