How does Filecoin make money?

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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.

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.