IPFS/Filecoin future data opens the way to hegemony
With the rapid popularity of the Internet, we are entering an era. The cloud storage economy is huge, and the decentralized data storage network directly targets this big goal. From the release of the Filecoin project to the end of the first round of the space race, the official storage goal of 200 PiB has been achieved, up to 230 PiB. This also gave the majority of miners a "reassurance." The dissatisfaction, disappointment, and anger rooted in the long wait may be relieved at this moment, which is not in vain for many years of waiting.
From a timing perspective, what will Filecoin look like in the future?
With the rapid popularity of the Internet, we are entering an era in which all kinds of massive data must be effectively stored to drive the progress of the times. So why the future will be the road to hegemony of distributed storage, let's take a brief look at the "data center and big data market".
Nowadays, the Internet exists around us all the time, and about 2.5 million bytes (Byte) of data are created every day in the world.
According to data, 90% of the data currently stored in the world was created in the past two years, which explains why Filecoin has not officially launched its mainnet since its release in 2017: the time has not arrived.
Just like Xiaomi Lei always said, "Standing on the tuyere, pigs can fly". Looking back at history, how many people, events, and projects were unable to succeed at the time because of the wrong timing, causing a thousand waves.
Tsui Hark's 2001 movie "The Legend of Shushan" was bleak at the box office after it was released, with an investment of 90 million yuan, but the box office was less than 30 million. Today, decades later, it is regarded as a classic by many netizens. It can only be described as "the day does not fulfill the wishes".
Van Gogh had a lot of works during his lifetime, but no one cares about it, not because his paintings were shoddy, but because the artistic conception of the paintings went against the mainstream at that time. The timing was wrong. What his works did not bring him endless wealth and fame all over the world, but a secular vision and "crazy" treatment, he became a martyr of art.
The above are examples of people and things failing because of the wrong timing. So what are the cases of the Internet technology industry that we are familiar with that failed because of the wrong timing and advanced ideas?
- Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves is a search engine similar to Google and Microsoft. It was established in 1997, a year earlier than Google’s in 1998. It uses many techniques that Google later used, such as semantic search and page ranking based on hyperlinks. Google’s cryptographic weapon.
It had a chance to become a company as great as Google, but because of the immature and unacceptable technologies of these eras, it fell into decline.
2.Dodgeball
Dodgeball belongs to the LBS social networking site. It failed at the time for two reasons: first, there was no iPhone back then; second, there was no Facebook. No Iphone means that all information is sent via SMS, which is very unfriendly. The absence of Facebook means that users cannot understand why they need to keep checking for updates on their friends' whereabouts.
The founder of Dodgeball later created Foursquare, which was a huge success.
3.GO Corporation
GO Corporation was one of the startups with the best funding situation that year, and its mobile operating system was also very good. GO Corporation is the pioneer of handheld computers, including the current touch screen devices iPhone and iPad have its concept. It just appeared too early.
4.WebTV
As the name suggests, WebTV means Internet TV, but at the time the company was named after it. The financial situation of WebTV was very good that year, and it was later acquired by Microsoft, but their grand goal of connecting the Internet to TV failed. The reason is that the concept is too advanced, or do consumers do not want the Internet to connect to the TV? There are two reasons. Now, Internet TV has become a part of our lives.
The above examples of Zhong Zhong failed at the time, but there were successors of the same type afterwards. The reason for the failure at that time could not be attributed to itself, but more to do the right thing at the wrong time. As long as one of them does not meet the conditions of success, the result will be failure.
On the other hand, Filecoin was released in 2017. At a time when the digital currency is in full swing, various digital currencies are emerging in an endless stream. If you want to stand out from many projects, you can think of the difficulty and risk.
At the same time, most users at that time only cared about economic interests, that is, "everything looks to the money". It is true that it was a piece of the pie when it went online, but it certainly did more harm than good to the long-term development of the project.
Up to now, the emergence of new technologies such as the Internet of Things, 5G, and IoT has been accompanied by a large amount of data transmission and storage dependence and demand. The HTTP traditional transmission protocol and traditional storage are no longer sufficient to support high speed, large volume, and low cost. Cost of data transmission and storage requirements.
In terms of timing alone, the official plan to launch the mainnet line is to follow the trend, which is just right. From the perspective of data market issues, what is the future of Filecoin? To give a typical example, Toyota Motor President Akio Toyoda said in 2018: "We will completely transform Toyota Motor from a car manufacturing company to a travel service company."
Everyone in automobile manufacturing should know what it means, so what does "travel service" mean? What does it represent?
In the professional terms of Didi Travel, we use daily travel services. We all know that Didi does not produce cars, but is only a porter of cars. What it does is a travel supply-demand matching service platform. Relying on a large amount of user data analysis and processing to provide services for users.
In order to ensure the effectiveness of user services and the economic benefits of enterprises, data transmission and storage must be emphasized to ensure the platform's user experience, travel safety and accident liability traceability.
Toyota Motor Corporation has transformed its mobility service company and announced that it has formed a "Mobility Alliance" with many companies including Didi, Amazon, Pizza Hut, Uber, and Mazda. Alliance members will cooperate in product planning, application, and verification. . This will result in a sharp increase in data usage, and the substantial increase in data in the past two years is precisely because of the gradual Internetization of these traditional enterprises, which is also the best proof.
In addition, according to a research report on world data creation and online activities, titled "Data Never Sleeps 5.0 (Domo.com)", we use search engines today to find answers to questions, and the amount of accumulated data is increasing each time .
Although only a small part of the data generated by a person's behavior, a large amount of information and data is created and processed every minute around the world. According to related reports, last year, there were more than 3.5 million text messages every minute. In addition, about 15.2 million text messages have been sent this year, and a large amount of data has been accumulated, which is 334% of the previous year.
Google processes 3.6 million searches per minute and more than 40,000 searches per second (3.5 billion searches per day). It has posted 456,000 tweets on Twitter and 4,146,600 videos per minute on YouTube.
These actions will generate data. The "behind the scenes" responsible for processing these data is the service provider. The data service provider processes the data of a user's operation on the Internet and manages the data at a certain cost.
Therefore, in the past two years, we will find that all kinds of video platforms, office platforms, music platforms, etc. require membership or payment before they can be used. The bottom line is the increase in platform operating costs, and the cost of data storage accounts for a large proportion of the cost. . According to the latest Symantec survey, global companies have stored approximately 2.2ZB of data, and the cost of protecting data security and accessing services is approximately US$1.1 trillion.
In this survey called the "State of Information", Symantec surveyed the opinions of 4,056 information technology professionals in 38 countries. The survey found that the average annual expenditure of large enterprises for storing data and protecting data security is US$38 million, and the average expenditure of small and medium-sized enterprises is US$332,000.
And this survey is only for 4,056 information technology professionals in 38 countries, and the number of this part of the survey is only the tip of the iceberg for the world. In response to the increase in storage costs, companies can only collect user fees through paid services to reduce their operating costs. Just like text messages, a fee of 0.1 yuan is charged for sending a text message in China. This is not because of the short message service platform Krypton, but it is a last resort to reduce operating costs. Although there are many problems and challenges in the data center and big data market, the current utilization rate of the global storage capacity has reached 50%.
However, as Internet technology continues to develop and upgrade, this ratio cannot meet the needs of development at all. In the future data management and storage, IPFS and Filecoin will become indispensable and become the basis for supporting the future super IT social innovation , Embark on the road of data hegemony.