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This article was originally written by IPFS Force Zone At 7:00 pm on July 8, 2020, Mars Cloud Mining invited IPFS Force Zone CTO Li Xin to have a video chat to talk about Filecoin . In just one and a half hours, the two mentioned a lot of topics that everyone was interested in and concerned about. For those who missed the live broadcast and want to relive it, please pay attention, here comes the key point! Q1: When did Force Zone start participating in the Filecoin ecosystem? What were the highlights during this period, and what difficulties did you experience? What do you think is the most important thing for Force Zone to reach its current level? Brother Xin: In China, the Force Zone should be one of the earliest, or even the earliest community. We have participated since the 1CO, and before that, like-minded people had formed a community to preach. The earliest Chinese white paper of Filecoin was translated by the Force Zone, which can be traced back to before and after the 1CO. Yuanli District has been deeply involved in the fields of IPFS and Filecoin. It has been developing based on IPFS since 2017 and has been conducting research after Filecoin was open sourced. Now it has been providing software and technical support for Filecoin and has built its own cluster mining pool. If we talk about the highlight moments of Force Zone, for example, when the development network was open sourced, we had already built a cluster, and we were the only one in the market with a cluster architecture. During the entire testing period, we were relatively low-key and did not promote rankings. When the test network was launched, everyone saw it, especially every time Force Zone started, it was able to run very well. Swipe left and right to see more But in addition to what you see on stage, there are actually many more. For example, because of our communication with the official, the official paid attention to the importance of clusters for storage, and now Lotus can be seen to be basically designed according to the cluster solution; and about the change of SDR algorithm, the official had been hesitant to make changes before the main network was launched. Later, we submitted a proposal, and the official decided to launch the main network as soon as possible and make changes later.
Although these cannot be seen by everyone, they are also highlight moments for our Force Zone.The reason why the Force Zone has achieved such results is due to the values that the Force Zone upholds, namely "value, co-construction, sharing, and glory", as well as our continued focus on research and ecology. Q2: Filecoin has three types of income: storage, retrieval, and block generation. It also has a pledge guarantee and penalty mechanism. The design of mining machines needs to consider these issues in a comprehensive and balanced manner. What kind of special designs has the Force Zone made in terms of achieving lower costs and balanced throughput? Brother Xin: The Filecoin chain is used for the storage and retrieval of real data. In order to ensure that miners provide high-quality services, a pledge and penalty mechanism is designed. Because there are practical business scenarios, it needs to be different from other blockchain models. As mentioned earlier, Force Zone has been focusing on clusters from the beginning, not mining machines. We envision that each module can be carried out separately, like an assembly line, quickly completing the module task and moving on to the next stage. Therefore, we think the cluster architecture is more user-friendly, and we can tap the potential of the equipment according to each module, make special designs according to the purpose, and make all modules achieve the highest efficiency. Of course, the design cannot be completely separated. In order to achieve the maximum efficiency of the cluster, the coordination between each module is also our key consideration in the design. Mining pools will need to provide storage and retrieval services in the future. Scalability, professionalism, etc. will also determine the implementation of Filecoin business.
In general, after discussing the necessity of clustering with the authorities, we carried out special optimizations for each stage (P1/P2/...), which resulted in Force Lightning and dominance. Q3: What are the considerations of the Force Zone regarding the 20% computing power limit? What are your thoughts on the development of Filecoin’s mining pool? Brother Xin: The 20% issue is not actually a restriction. The official design is based on security and stability. Miners with more than 20% computing power can theoretically produce blocks every time. I discussed this issue with the official some time ago, because 20% will make mining predictable, which is not friendly to the blockchain. At present, the official has also designed another solution, which I believe will be integrated soon. Filecoin hopes to build a more decentralized storage market, so we discussed the development of mining pool construction with the official. We prefer clustered mining pools to take the lead in the early stage, quickly providing a large amount of storage and retrieval for the network. It is easier to manage and relatively safe in the early stage of the network when it is not stable. Once mature, it will evolve into a clustered + distributed mining pool.
Our Force Zone will also be realized as soon as possible in the future. The current mining pool will be able to connect to other decentralized mining machines and establish a service platform to provide more support for the ecosystem. Q4: According to your calculations, what kind of fluctuations will there be in the FIL output per ton in the first year? Is there a suitable calculation model? Brother Xin: In fact, if the amount of tokens released is fixed, your per-T income will be related to the total computing power of the entire network - calculated according to the amount of FIL, the higher the total computing power, the lower the per-T income. But the benefits are also related to the value of FIL. According to the network model, we can foresee that the larger the network capacity, the higher the value of FIL; once it reaches a certain limit, there will be a qualitative increase. Generally speaking, the value of a network is proportional to the square of the network. So, if we consider this, although the amount of FIL has decreased, our income is higher. Therefore, we should not only look at our single T income (how much FIL), but also look at the development of the network ecology. Just like the bigger the pie, even if we get fewer pieces, the actual area we get is larger.
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