I've come upon, in the course of my studies, the assorted "cooperative storage cloud" projects of FileCoin, Sia, and STORJ. FC (built on IPFS by its creators) and Sia both seem to be closed economies of "storage coins" while Storj is built on etherium. Sia is additionally the only project which seems to be in a state which could be called completion or practical functionality.
Upon finding these, I couldn't help but wonder what the lainons would think on the subject.