On January 19th, at the WeChat Open Class Pro WeChat Night Event, WeChat founder Zhang Xiaolong gave a two-hour speech, explaining in detail the video account, live broadcast, and some new attempts that WeChat is doing. In this speech, Zhang Xiaolong cited a set of data when talking about why he wants to make a video account:
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1.09 billion users opened WeChat and 330 million users made video calls;
780 million users entered Moments, 120 million users posted Moments;
360 million users read public account articles and 400 million users use mini programs;
Among them, in the past 5 years, the number of video messages sent by users every day has increased by 33 times, and the number of videos posted in Moments has increased by 10 times. "
Video, an important information carrier
Why in recent years, more and more large companies such as "WeChat, Kuaishou, Douyin" have entered the video industry? Because human beings have lived for tens of thousands of years, the form of information closest to human needs is real life. The video can better feedback real life.
In the beginning, humans used words to record information. Although the words have sedimentary value, they have a big disadvantage, that is, the high cost of understanding. For example, learning to play basketball, reading words, watching pictures and watching videos has three effects. It's completely different.
Later, pictures began to appear. Compared with text, pictures are more intuitive and have a higher transmission rate, but the information they can carry is relatively small, and it is impossible to describe the whole picture.
In recent years, audio and video have begun to appear. Compared with text and pictures, video has a larger amount of information, a lower generation time, and a wider transmission rate. Everyone can make videos and everyone can share videos.
According to statistics, video traffic has increased 7 times between 2015 and 2020. In 2017, video traffic accounted for 65% of global mobile Internet traffic. Nowadays, video is gradually becoming the main information carrier.
The starting point of information is real life, and pictures, text, audio, video, websites, small programs, etc. are derived from it. The end of information enrichment is virtual reality. In other words, human beings will create another reality through the carrier of information.
Filecoin, laying a solid foundation for human social information
With the development of human technology, virtual reality technologies such as ARVR will gradually come into people's lives. By then, the amount of data generated by humans will increase geometrically again.
According to rough statistics, 50 billion GB of data is generated every day in the world, which is equivalent to 678,168 72T large-scale distributed storage devices that are fully saturated to meet the amount of data generated in a day. With the data unchanged, 247 million large-scale storage devices are needed a year. To meet the demand.
The increase in data volume seems to follow Moore's Law: more than double every 18-24 months. The data generated in the last three years is the sum of all data for 40,000 years in human history.
So much data is stored in a centralized data center. Is it safe?
We all know that centralized storage methods have a series of problems such as high concurrent data redundancy, storage security, privacy leakage, and high cost. The downtime of giant cloud storage centers such as "Tencent Cloud, Google Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud" is no longer new. .
With the explosive growth of data volume, human beings are more looking forward to new data storage methods that are safer and larger in storage, faster in response, smoother in use, more private, and protected. IPFS& Filecoin was born in line with the times.
IPFS is a rare and exciting technological innovation on the blockchain and even on the Internet. IPFS stores files in fragments on multiple nodes, parallel processing and transmission speed, the goal is to supplement or even replace the HTTP protocol, is committed to building A new generation of Internet infrastructure.
IPFS currently has more than 4,000 contributors, more than 6,000 applications use the IPFS network, and more than 1,160,000 nodes on the Internet. Many giants have officially announced that they support IPFS, the data stored on the IPFS network has exceeded tens of billions, and applications related to IPFS are also blooming everywhere.
As the only incentive layer of IPFS, Filecoin enjoys the unique and good resources of IPFS. Before the mainnet was launched, it received US$257 million in financing and was favored by top investors.
The Filecoin community is also extremely large and active. The Filecoin community is composed of more than 1,000 active node participants, more than 90 organizations have been established on the network, more than 200 new projects entering the ecosystem through dedicated accelerators and hackathons, GitHub More than 4,800 contributors.
Currently, Filecoin main network operators effectively force is close to 2EB, Filecoin has become the world's largest distributed storage network, and speed the development is still in a state.
As the Governor of the Central Bank Yi Gang said: "It is possible that there will be a few digital currencies with high public recognition, coverage, user scale, and physical support scale in the world."
I believe Filecoin will definitely be the brightest star.
Investors who want to learn more about IPFS and Filecoin can follow the official website of the IPFS China Community: http://ipfs.cn