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> But putting all the craziest ideas together in one jumble... has anyone ever seriously proposed something like distributed hash table cloud storage, extremely redundant, that was perhaps financed by a blockchain cryptocurrency operating on some kind of auction or supply-and-demand system, that could be used by open-source software?

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Yes, that's the closest I'm aware of.

But IPFS seems more designed for public sharing as opposed to private storage, and most notably only for popular content. Much like torrents, content disappears in IPFS if nobody's using it.

This is why I think the concept of paying others for guaranteed storage is the necessary second half. Not paying people individually, but that I'd simply be receiving some payment ~monthly for making available say 100 GB of space on my SSD, and the protocol would immediately redundantly copy content from other nodes to yet one more node the moment I go offline.

Paying others to seed is where FileCoin comes in. And if you want private, you encrypt the file. There's no other way it you want other people to host it.

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