The first version of Filecoin is expected to be released as early as March 2018 (expected)
Protocol Labs got 205 million US dollars in this ICO, and it is already very rich. I believe the development progress will be much faster. The Filecoin paper was first published on July 15, 2014, more than 3 years ago (this progress is speechless 
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Because the filecoin mining software has not yet been made, and new papers and algorithms will be released, the mining details still need to wait.
For mining, what can be done currently?
Mining machine: Mining machine does not need high configuration, ordinary machine can be used to ensure a certain access bandwidth. At present, it is not recommended for everyone to do anything on the mining machine. Unlike BTC, Filecoin is not based on the amount of calculation. At present, there are no special requirements for the machine. Just need to run the mining software smoothly. In the future, special mining machines will definitely be developed to reduce costs, and we are studying this. It will definitely be cheaper than assembling it yourself in the future.
Hard disk: The focus is on hard disk space, and now the focus is on how to reduce the cost per terabyte of hard disks, different hard disk types, different service lives, initial investment, and future hard disk cost reductions. These can be modeled. Draw the expected return curve, and then maximize the return
Network speed: IPFS is a p2p type of network. If the network speed is fast enough, you can participate in the mining of the data retrieval market, and you can pay attention to how to improve the network speed.
Location: (On this point, it is only speculation, see the next version of the Filecoin paper for details) According to the latest Filecoin paper and the content of the forum, Filecoin's income may be related to the region where the mining machine is located, especially the high network traffic. Regions, that is, big cities are related. For example, if you participate in the retrieval market, if your mining machine is located in some rare places, no matter how fast the speed is, the output will not be high. Rather, it should be built in places with high population density. For example, first-tier cities, provincial capital cities. So it is likely that mining farms will need to be established in different cities.
In short: what you need to care about now is the hard disk, but it is not recommended to start storing hard disks so early (investment is risky), because the Filecoin software has not yet been released in any beta version, and the algorithm has not really been done. It's a bit risky to invest now.
The good news is that Filecoin has accepted early miner appointments
The good news is that Filecoin has accepted early miner appointments
The good news is that Filecoin has accepted early miner appointments
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The application is using the google form, which requires a ladder,
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Filecoin发展历史：
2014.7.15号filecoin.io发表了第一篇关于Filecoin的论文，论述了Filecoin的 File Storage Network可行性。
2017.7.4 发表Filecon的第二篇论文，在第一篇的基础上提出了新的工作量证明方案和拜占庭容错的解决方案
2017.8.2 开展ICO
2017年的 Q3 and Q4：集中精力实现Filecoin
ICO后IPFS鸟钱换炮了，有钱了，开发速度会飞速提升（不然投资人会。）
Filecoin的主要内容（技术难点）：
时空证明（Proof-of-Spacetime）：证明一段时间内矿工使用特点的存储空间存储了特定的数据（用来挖矿）
复制证明（Proof-of-Replication）：证明特定数据已经被复制到用户的储存空间
PFT（Power Fault Tolerance）：升级版的拜占庭容错，通信协议都绕不开的一个经典问题，拜占庭将军问题。
现在Filecoin团队正在努力解决这些关键行的问题，未来还会有论文发表。
目前IPFS团队的效率和沟通依然不够好，（IOC后）目前看到在官方网站他们开始招聘相关的项目管理，工程管理等负责人了。好的是项目是开源的，进度也是公开的，我们可以看着他们，把事情做好。
曾经有人质疑过IPFS团队，认为他们做不出来共识机制。但是一个使用了美国IPO方式进行融资的ICO，募集资金到了惊人的2.05亿美元。我们有足够的理由相信他们（因为有一帮人拿钱相信了他们）能够解决这些复杂的问题。就像中本村的BTC创始宣言一样，也不是说一年或者两年写出来的，中本村花费好多年，也是建立在前人的基础上提出的工作量证明机制，用来达成共识。（其实中本聪没有发明任何新技术，他利用已有的技术时间戳机制、非对称加密等等实现了伟大的发明---区块链。
赶紧去申请早起矿工项目吧，抓紧，申请问题是英文的，小编帮大家翻译了一下做参考：
作者飞向未来，致力于IPFS/Filecoin在中国的技术推广，他的微信公众号和社群，目前是中国最活跃最顶级的IPFS社群。作者飞向未来是圆方圆区块链的特邀嘉宾，所有转载都已经得到飞向未来本人授权。
更多飞向未来导师的公众号，可以在IPFS指南公众号中找到。
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