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I've read the whitepapers for both siacoin and filecoin long before discovering videocoin.
Filecoin isn't even trying to be a CDN; it's just a dropbox replacement.
Sia has CDN on the roadmap but it's not even started to be implemented and is clearly not their main goal. According to their founder (
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13723722):
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Sia's core user market is people who are willing to pay for cloud storage. This would include businesses and enterprises. Sia's long term game is to offer a cloud storage platform that competes with the likes of Amazon S3 at less than 10% of the price, all while offering the security, privacy, decentralization, and open source codebase of a blockchain project.
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Videocoin is being designed from the ground up to be a CDN for streaming video. As interesting as sia and filecoin are, they're not specifically designed to solve video streaming for enterprise-level websites. They're origin servers at best; they don't provide any edge cacheing.