Filecoin’s ICO opens today: raises $52M from investors

[HNNoLikey]

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/10/filecoins-ico-opens-today-for-accredited-investors-after-raising-52m-from-advisers/

[mtgx]

If there's one group that deserves to raise a ton of money through an ICO, it's the developers behind IPFS.

I wish Open Whisper Systems would do one, too, for a distributed Signal app of sorts.

[HNNoLikey → mtgx]

> HTTP downloads a file from a single computer at a time, instead of getting pieces from multiple computers simultaneously. With video delivery, a P2P approach could save 60% in bandwidth costs.

From the IPFS site. If true, then this is ground breaking tech. I honestly didn't know that HTTP was that wasteful.