Filecoin data storage process and income influencing factors analysis
Filecoin data storage process and analysis of revenue influencing factors, friends who have not had time to participate, hurry up and have a look!
[Question 1] What is going on with Filecoin mining?
First of all, everyone should understand that Filecoin is a distributed storage network, which makes cloud storage an algorithmic market. At the same time, there is a chain running on this network, which can be simply understood as a blockchain called Filecoin.
Filecoin mining means that when customers need to store data, miners can obtain FIL rewards by providing data storage services. This reward is divided into two parts, one is the official reward, and the block reward is similar to Bitcoin; and Part of the reward is the data storage service fee paid to miners when customers store data.
Of course, Filecoin mining is not as simple as we said. It is a system with multiple participating roles. We will explain in detail in the next question.
[Question two] What is the process of Filecoin mining?
First of all, to understand Filecoin mining, you need to understand who are the participants in the Filecoin mining process?
There are mainly the following participants in the Filecoin mining process. The specific list is as follows:
StorageClient: Data storage demander.
StorageProvider: Data storage server provider, a storage miner.
StorageMarketActor: The role responsible for managing storage and retrieval transactions.
StorageAsk: Miners provide storage service quotations.
StorageDealProposal: A plan for storage transactions.
StorageDeal: A storage transaction proposal with the signature of the data storage service party.
In order to show the mining process more vividly, we use icons to show it.
First, the user puts forward his requirements to the miner who provides the storage. At this time, the client needs to identify the miner and determine their current quotation.
If the quotation is deemed appropriate, then the customer and the miner have reached an agreement on the terms of the transaction, and both parties promise to provide funds for the transaction, and the data will be transferred from the client to the data storage service provider, which is commonly understood by the miner. Currently, miners and data storage service providers are mostly the same role.
At this time, it is necessary to publish the transaction on the chain. This is to make the storage provider publicly responsible for the transaction.
Then, once the transaction is released, it will be handed over and processed by the storage mining subsystem. The storage mining subsystem will add data corresponding to the transaction to a sector, seal the sector, and tell the storage market participants that the transaction is in a sector, thereby marking the transaction.
In the process of data sealing, a copy certificate is generated, and then the data is verified to form effective computing power, obtain the packaging right, submit the space-time certificate, and finally get the block reward.
The above is the process of storing data in the entire Filecoin network, which is the mining process in everyone's mouth.
[Question three] What are the factors affecting Filecoin mining?
Strictly speaking, there are many factors that affect Filecoin mining. It can be summarized into the following categories: hardware configuration, software algorithm, operation and maintenance system and communication environment, price factors, company operating strength, etc.
Next, we will analyze them one by one.
First, hardware configuration: At present, most people in the market are most concerned about the hardware configuration, such as the number of memory, CPU, GPU, hard drives and servers. Hardware cost issues and adaptation issues will affect the overall output income of Filecoin mining.
Second, the software algorithm: The software algorithm affects the packaging certification speed, the rate of failed sectors and the efficiency of the cluster system. If you look at the browser, you can see the data disclosure of the sector status, the current sector status error rate of the mainland node is 0. This is mainly because the mainland node technical team can now restore the mainnet one-to-one, and build a Filecoin mainnet simulation test environment. As you can see from Filecoin's official economic model, if penalized during the sector encapsulation process, it will seriously affect FIL revenue. For this, you can check the article "What technical progress has the mainland node technology made after the Filecoin mainnet went live" previously published by the mainland node.
Third, the operation and maintenance system: Miners need to contribute resources to the Filecoin network for a long time, and they need a stable network environment. Therefore, operation and maintenance is extremely important in Filecoin mining. The operation and maintenance system mainly includes the following aspects: host management, automated deployment, automated monitoring, log platform, alarm convergence and self-healing, etc.
Fourth, the communication environment: the star rating of the computer room, the address of the computer room and the power system, etc. It can be seen from the second phase of the mainland node computer room sharing that we all prefer computer rooms with international standards and provide the highest guarantee in terms of network, security, and fire protection. This can be seen in the third issue of "The Secret of the Continental Node Data Center".
Fifth, price factor: Regarding the price, it is not only the mining machine fee, computing power fee, service fee, custody fee, etc., but also the price fluctuation of FIL itself. The pre-collateralization mechanism of FIL actually puts pressure on many miners who want to invest in the Filecoin ecosystem. If the pre-mortgage is less, it will naturally affect the income of FIL. Therefore, the price of FIL is still a dynamic game process.
Sixth, the company's operational strength: including
1. The experience of the company's technical team (for example, the mainland node technical team has mastered the use of lotus series programs to build various types of filecoin networks. These include: (1), official operation and maintenance support tools; (2) Drand random beacon network that guarantees the fairness and security of the Filecoin network, etc. For more details, the subsequent live broadcast will be disclosed to everyone.
2. Software patent certificate (we have obtained more than 30 patents at present) .
3, the size of the current server (referred to as the size of mine), we can see our data center article.
4, delivery capability, which certainly do not need me to say, now we should have been assigned to the earnings of FIL.
5, after-sales Service
6. The history of the company. This includes the company's past resources and customers. It is also an important indicator for testing whether a company is long-term. Because Filecoin officials have repeatedly emphasized that this is a long-term project, and we must also hold this Mentality.
Regarding the above issues, each of the main points can be divided into many small points to elaborate. Today, I will not describe them one by one. In the next technology week, we will tell you systematically.