Filecoin official website version is updated, the page is clearer, and of course, the purpose is clearer.
Before the revision, the website emphasized storage infrastructure. After the revision, the official Filecoin website highlighted three aspects:
1. Filecoin itself is a powerful and active distributed storage network.
2. Come join the network today to participate in network testing, and optimize your storage configuration, and get ready for the mainnet launch.
3. Filecoin has a breakthrough storage network with built-in incentive mechanism.
Simply put, Filecoin's official website has been revised to directly promote mining and storage practices, and also tells us that the time to start mining has arrived!
Is the Filecoin mainnet really coming?
On June 14, according to a report from a well-known foreign blockchain media Cointelegragh, after Filecoin released the testnet reward program, Filecoin business developer Angie Maguire told the media via email that Filecoin's mainnet will be launched this summer.
The recent series of official events also gave us confidence that the Filecoin mainnet is really getting closer. From the official announcement at the Second Miners Conference that the NSE algorithm will not be launched before the mainnet launch, and that the mainnet will be released on time; to inviting miners to set up a safety research team, and the launch of the rules of the big miner test reward program. We are confident that the Filecoin mainnet is really coming!
At the same time, in order for miners to conveniently query the real-time data on the Filecoin chain, the new official website of Filecoin has added a jump link to the block explorer in the upper right corner of the homepage. Participants in the Filecoin ecosystem can directly click on the "The Chain" button to visit filscan.io . filscan.io is one of the very successful projects developed by the community. You can check the transaction details and node working status of filecoin here.
The emergence of Filecoin is about to change the ecology, not only the ecology of the blockchain, but it will also have an impact on traditional applications.
This is also one of Filecoin's vision: to create the next generation of the Internet Web3.0 era.
We can imagine:
1. The photos in our mobile phones do not need to be backed up to various software, as long as they are backed up to the Filecoin network, we can download them no matter what software we use. No longer dependent on any storage provider, no need to back up to the required software, as long as upload to Filecoin, data security is guaranteed!
2. In the world of IPFS/Filecoin, we will not lose contact with friends due to the failure of the network fiber, because we and friends establish a point-to-point connection and communicate directly without going through a third-party server. The failure of the network fiber will only affect the part that communicates with the outside world. As for the WeChat chat with friends or blogging, it does not matter.
3. If you are a video creator, you can store your work directly on the IPFS/Filecoin network and trade through DAPP or smart contract. Not only that, if your work is so popular that hundreds of millions of people download and watch it, the IPFS/Filecoin network will automatically distribute rewards for your videos. At that time, there is no need to create a huge server cluster, and there is no need to pay a lot of fees to cloud service providers.
4. As an application developer, you will find that most APPs can be turned into DAPPs (decentralized applications), use IPFS/Filecoin to support content storage and distribution, and use smart contracts to implement business logic. Social tools to replace WeChat appeared, but it is not another tool, but a large number of tools that can communicate with each other. They use the same network for information storage and sharing, they use blockchain technology for identity authentication, and they use smart contracts. To regulate behavior...
The future is an era where data is king. Data should be owned by the owner of the data and should bring value to the creator of the data. In a word, it is to realize my data and I will make the decision. Various applications based on the Filecoin network can achieve this goal well.
In the Web3.0 era, with the explosion of data and the popularization of 5G, IPFS + Filecoin completes massive data storage and realizes real-time data interaction, which will surely accelerate the construction of the Web3.0 era, and the future is full of expectations.
The official signs indicate that the Filecoin mainnet is coming soon, let us look forward to it!