They earn Filecoin by winning bids and provider-fees for a particular file , which are determined by the market value of said file’s size. A retrieval providers’s bandwidth and bid/initial response time for deals (i.e., latency and proximity to clients) will determine its ability to close retrieval deals on the network.
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What is the total supply (ever)? The total supply ever will be: 2,000,000,000 (2 Billion) filecoin, to be released over decades, similar to Bitcoin.
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