Where Data Lives in an IPFS/Filecoin World with Mikeal Rogers

I've spent 20 years in open source, and we've figured out ways to make open source free at every level and at every tier. Somebody is paying for it somewhere, but there's always enough institution there that we can provide that service. And as we build out the web3 ecosystem, we need to make sure that public NFT data is a public service and a public commons and that were backing it up.

I don't consider any blockchain, right now, safe and permanent. This is a very early time in this ecosystem. We're going to see very big changes and shake-ups. I don't think that anyone can be making claims with words like 'forever' right now.

I think that it's not inconceivable that Brave could end up having a larger market share than Firefox on some timeline. They've grown pretty quickly. Firefox has been bleeding market share for years.

At the same time, there's just a huge amount of pushback from the traditional web community on crypto and a lot of crypto skepticism, in general. And that's been really hard to deal with.

The cost of storing data per gigabyte should be as low as possible. We are trying to drive that price to 0 because this is a storage layer for web3 and needs to compete with the existing storage systems that are out there. It needs to be cheaper than Amazon; it needs be cheaper than Glacier; it needs to be cheaper than everybody else.