1. Introduction to Filecoin:
IPFS Mining Machine: Is Filecoin a decentralized storage facility? Initiated by the protocol laboratory. It turns existing cloud storage into an algorithmic market. Miners receive appropriate tokens by providing data storage or data retrieval services. Users must pay for data storage and data retrieval.
2. The mining principle of Filecoin:
You can think of IPFS as a huge network connected by countless new computers (mining machines). It is the same as the current Internet. The difference is that the information transmission between computers complies with different protocol standards. The traditional HTTP protocol and the transmission protocol in IPFS can make data transmission more secure, faster and cheaper. shape
A similar analogy is that traditional HTTP is traditional Chinese characters, and IPFS is now simplified Chinese characters. Simplified characters make information interaction and dissemination easier and more efficient.
Another feature of the IPFS network is closely related to mining. The data of the IPFS network is distributed and stored. It can be understood that the data is stored in countless computers all over the world, rather than stored in a centralized server. It is also one of the reasons why the IPFS network is more secure and stable. Because this network does not have a central node, it will not ask questions from the center
The problem caused the entire network to collapse. In the IPFS network, the data resources you need may be in your neighbors, or in other places on the earth.
3. How Filecoin works:
As a Filecoin user, you can specify the files to upload. And pay a small fee for your upload request to Filecoin-B? Listed. Over there, the storage node provides the correct permissions to save the file. Should uploaders be allowed in this bidding process? Like the price up to meters? It's like lowering. Filecoin Exchange is a decentralized exchange, is your order? Finish
to make? From the Filecoin blockchain.
After that, Filecoin encrypts your files and divides them into many parts. These different audience segments are sent to different locations on the web to host your files. The exact location of all file segments are recorded in the Filecoin blockchain. It is called the allocation table. To view all parts of a file, you need to know the private key of the file. Only the file owner has private
key. Therefore, only the file owner can find it to reassemble the file and decrypt it.
4. The role of IPFS:
IPFS fundamentally changes the way users search. Through IPFS, users can directly search for the content they want.
In the past, users searched for files through HTTP browsers first to find the location (IP address) of the server, and then used the path name to find the file on the server. In this way, only the file owner can determine whether this is the file the user is looking for, and must ensure that the custodian will not remove the file or shut down the server to make any changes to the file.
When the file is added to the IPFS node, a new name will be generated. This name is actually a cryptographic hash calculated based on the content of the file. Encryption can ensure that the hash always only represents the content of this file, even if only one bit of data is modified in the file, the hash will be completely different.