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Who pays for ipfs?



Protocol Labs - https://protocol.ai

They did a big ICO with Filecoin.


They pay for (most of) the development and running some public nodes, but in the end running IPFS is up to individual nodes.


It works like torrents: nodes only re-host content that they want to.




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