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IPFS is a great case study in a system that has issues running entirely on voluntary basis. Now they try different "product models".

One is paid pinning services - services that ensure the existence and availability of files in the network.

Then there i FileCoin - an augmentation with a specialised economy that tried to have files stored an available based on a market.

As I wrote elsewhere in the chat - FileCoin is essentially unrelated to IPFS and it’s really hard to make it work together.

Well then maybe it might be worthwhile to start bittorent-like private trackers for IPFS?

Bittorrent has the same problem: files go stale and disappear from the network.

On the other hand, bittorrent would probably benefit from a FileCoin like economy build on top of it.