Kurt Opsahl
Team at Filecoin
Kurt Opsahl is currently the Associate General Counsel for Cybersecurity and Civil Liberties Policy at Filecoin.
Current Roles
News Mentions
FINANCE FEEDS: Filecoin Rallies Over 7% to $1.055 as DePIN Tokens Defy Broader Market Slump
Two tech giants capture 34% of the spatial computing market. If the 3D maps and digital twins powering the spatial internet live on centralized servers, the open web becomes a walled garden. Filecoin offers exabyte-scale storage across independent global providers. Use it. https://t.co/YrZCDwyE3
2,300 gigawatts of generation capacity is stuck in US interconnection queues. New connections in Northern Virginia take up to seven years. Filecoin providers bypass the queue, deploying wherever power is cheap, verified by cryptographic proofs. https://t.co/3VQ1jwaMCj
One petabyte of spatial assets costs $23,000 per month on standard cloud tiers. High-density 3D mapping generates terabytes per square mile. Filecoin is built for this workload. Storage across independent providers, zero retrieval penalty, cryptographic proof of integrity. https://t.co/dVgOMb3p5
Bermuda Government to Store Data on Filecoin, Citing Compliance, Latency, and AI Benefits
Transformer prices are up 80% over five years. Lead times stretch to 210 weeks for specialized equipment. The bottleneck is physics and supply chain. Filecoin network bypasses both. Providers deploy wherever electrons are cheap, not wherever the grid queue is shortest. https://t.co/4NbfofJ4B7
Half of planned 2026 US data center builds are delayed or canceled. Transformers have 4-5 year queues. AI clusters are chasing cheap power. Filecoin network runs at exabyte scale. Filecoin providers deploy wherever that power is abundant. No grid queue required. https://t.co/HtulEyc91R
Crypto Price Analysis 12-2: BITCOIN: BTC, ETHEREUM: ETH, SOLANA: SOL, FILECOIN: FIL, INTERNET COMPUTER: ICP
Filecoin Drops Over 10% as Selling Pressure Spikes and Key Support Breaks — Here Is What FIL Traders Need To Watch
Filecoin Slumps More Than 10%