Oh that sounds horrific, there are such big numbers involved in the filecoin project. I hope they can do something to mitigate that as we need competition in this space. I am interested in proof of space as it’s very complex and we have gone for a much simpler system of proof of resource. In our POS nodes are randomly asked for data or to check data (cryptographically and simply). So we went for don’t care how, but you better have the chunks and be able to deliver them. This bypasses the complexity of rsa vector proofs and the gammit of math.
Not saying we are better, we don’t know yet, but it would be neat to contrast and compare a math proven space claim to a “don’t care, you better have the data” claim.
In any case I hope they get around this and it does not become a huge corporate only network.