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You can see the live file storage deals here. https://filfox.info/en/deal

I had started reading about that and Siacoin a while back. Never got around to starting a node or anything like that. With Sia at least, you had to put up a stake first before you could start a storage node (for reasons that made sense). But then I'd have had to go through the rigamarole with buying some other coin, trading for it, setting up various wallets, etc.

Maybe at the end of the day I should just be giving a little money to rsync.net or Backblaze.

You can use Sia from browser nowadays. They built a decentralized CDN network called Skynet on it. https://siasky.net

You can host web apps on it too, here's the "Skynet app store": https://skapp.hns.siasky.net/#/apps/all

Yeah, it's so cheap to store on Filecoin I really want to backup to it as another offsite option. But I'm waiting until Duplicati has built in support for it instead of figuring it out on my own.

Good question. Would be nice if they would. Does anybody really uses Bitcoin?