At the moment when the mainnet was launched, various exchanges announced that they would support FIL trading when the mainnet was launched, which added another fire to Filecoin, which was originally relatively hot. People in all circles are thinking about how to grab Filecoin tokens in the first place. V| jasonbody
Of course, there are also some miners who are constantly participating in Filecoin mining because the official mentioned that all sectors including pledges and block rewards are moved to the main network. It seems that they can enter the Filecoin network to grab the top mine after the main network is online, but the fact is not In this way, the grabbing of the top mine also requires a certain threshold.
Compared with Bitcoin mining, Filecoin mining is more than ten times more difficult than Bitcoin in terms of difficulty. First of all, from the entry threshold, Filecoin requires its minimum computing power to reach 1T to produce blocks, which means that a larger hard disk is required. In terms of configuration, Filecoin generally requires the size of each sector to be set to 32GB, otherwise it will not meet the mining requirements due to insufficient server configuration.
Therefore, the configuration of the miner must be higher than the official recommended configuration, so it must be impossible to mine. During the space race, according to statistics, if the low configuration hardware is configured, the main hardware cost is about 31,063, plus other minor accessories, it is estimated to be about 40,000 (48T); the high configuration version (general general configuration 168T) main hardware cost 11.2446 About 10,000, if you add other customized accessories, it is expected to be as high as 150,000.
Judging from the above data, and mining needs to involve factors such as network, bandwidth, and power supply stability, the overall mining threshold is high.
Secondly, the polarization of miners is serious, and most small miners are not strong enough.
Judging from the performance of the first stage of the space race, the Filecoin network is set to prove once every half an hour, which makes the failure rate of many small miners high, so they fall into the mud of losing computing power. In addition, small miners also face the following four big pits:
- High degree of synchronization is difficult : due to technical reasons, many miners in the process of making sectors, pre-seal 1 and pre-seal 2 are unstable, and the failure rate is too high, making it difficult to achieve data storage and fail;
- Difficulty in order matching : The space race stage is different from the previous testnet stage. The testnet settlement is to automatically receive orders, and the space race is an optional stage. As a result, small miners may not be able to produce orders, fail to complete the following storage miner steps, and cannot obtain storage orders. The benefits of the game, and can not increase the probability of bursting.
- Difficult to pack : For small-scale miners, after completing windows and winning time-space proofs, no miners assisted in packing and broadcasting, resulting in block production failure. This shop can help miners in multiple clusters.
- Difficult to produce blocks : With the growth of computing power, storage modules increase, especially when computing power reaches more than 1PB. Block generation requires random access to some sectors in the entire storage, which poses a great challenge to response time. Miners who cannot complete data reading within 30 seconds will waste a block generation opportunity, and the corresponding revenue will be reduced.
In addition to the above four factors, the penalty mechanism of Filecoin mining also determines the importance of stability. Once the network or power is interrupted, the system will be punished.
In general, small miners are small in scale and weak in technology, which makes it difficult to achieve sector generation, unassisted order demanders, block packaging parties, and block generation difficulties within a period of time, which directly leads to small-scale miners' entire network computing power The growth rate is too slow.
Therefore, individual investors need to choose those capable miners to cooperate when making investment decisions, and they are the wise choice to participate in Filecoin mining investment.