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relation to Filecoin

Juan Batiz-Benet 11 years ago
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 And, there are [many people](contributors.md) whose papers, conversations, or work have directly contributed to its design and implementation.
 And, there are [many people](contributors.md) whose papers, conversations, or work have directly contributed to its design and implementation.
 
 
+#### What is the relation to [Filecoin](http://filecoin.io)?
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+Filecoin is the sister protocol of IPFS. While neither protocol depends on each other, they are perfectly complementary. IPFS handles high performance distribution of objects; Filecoin handles incentivizing the world to backup/seed objects.
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 #### Why the name IPFS?
 #### Why the name IPFS?
 
 
 The original name was GFS, whose acronym stood for the Global File System and which seemed more accurate than GitFS. But that exact name wass already [taken](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFS2). So I switched Global for Galactic, in an homage to Licklider's [Intergalactic Computer Network](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Computer_Network), and because peer-to-peer systems look like galaxies to me. But GFS caused confusion with yet another [GFS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_File_System), even though that one is not even open source.
 The original name was GFS, whose acronym stood for the Global File System and which seemed more accurate than GitFS. But that exact name wass already [taken](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFS2). So I switched Global for Galactic, in an homage to Licklider's [Intergalactic Computer Network](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Computer_Network), and because peer-to-peer systems look like galaxies to me. But GFS caused confusion with yet another [GFS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_File_System), even though that one is not even open source.