At present, many people in the market think that the current status of filecoin and cloud storage is that the initial risk is greater, but there are still many people holding some filecoin in their hands and are at a loss. Now the currency price continues to fall, which reminds many people of the original EOS, and that classic picture.
But let’s laugh and laugh. In fact, investing is to be responsible for your own actions. Once you choose to speculate instead of tun currency, you must be able to bear the risk of falling and being locked up and the plan to hold or cut meat, but there are still many in the market. Retail investors do not have this awareness, which creates a dilemma.
Having said that, is Filecoin worth investing in in the future? Is the blockchain cloud storage section worth the investment? This is a question worth exploring.
Regarding the comparison of the investment value of cloud storage and filecoin, some time ago, the first-class warehouse of the currency circle published a detailed content about filecoin and storj, because it can only be viewed by users who subscribe to the annual fee, that is, it was not made public at the time. In fact, it can be observed Some clues, the author thinks here is still a certain reference.
Of course, the research report said that the current decentralized storage is filecoin and storj. In fact, many people may vaguely guess that the main focus here may be storj. Today we are mainly analyzing the future of cloud storage.
As of today, First Class has published their research reports on storj and filecoin on Weibo for free. Of course, the number of words in the article is very long, and they are more attentive. Let’s briefly summarize the conclusion:
1. Storj nodes are mainly in Europe and America, while the main nodes of filecoin are more evenly distributed, and there are more in China.
2. Storj is mainly for business users, and the target is a cloud service organization like Amazon. The storage cost is about half. Filecoin is more widely oriented to users, and the storage cost is lower than Storj, but the price is calculated in filecoin.
3. The overall number of nodes of Storj is relatively large, while the number of nodes of Filecoin is relatively small. This is because the mainnet of Filecoin has just launched, so the comparability is not particularly high.
4. The experience of Filecoin at home and abroad is relatively poor, while the experience of storj in China is relatively poor, and the experience in foreign countries will be better. Both have failed several times during the test.
5. The first-class warehouse believes that filecoin may have a great possibility of centralization in the future, and there are defects in miner incentives and economic models. Filecoin needs to undergo constant transformation, just like Ethereum.
In other words, we can discuss storj or filecoin under the blockchain cloud storage sector, but the premise is that this sector is worth investing in, which is not mentioned in their research report. It is also a prerequisite key factor.
In fact, the blockchain cloud storage section is relatively easy to analyze. We need to realize that the most important thing here is the cost of data storage and usage, and whether there is an advantage compared with traditional cloud disks. That is to say, we cannot because It is based on the blockchain and may cost more, and it is recommended because there are different service levels in different markets.
For example, if you require a document to be stored online for 100 years, while others only require your own document to be stored online for four to five years, the final choice is naturally different, and the more demanding one is naturally expensive , And low-demand ones are naturally cheaper, and this is the whole truth.
That is to say, the current cloud storage projects such as filecoin, storj, etc., in fact, their competitors are not only each other, but also include traditional cloud service providers, because generally speaking, the storage of user data by cloud service providers can actually be regarded as one. A multi-server backup mode, of course, we can also regard it as similar to the effect of decentralization. If the storage data of a node or server fails, then naturally they will access it on other nodes or cloud servers. In this way, Naturally, the security of the file will be guaranteed.
If we talk about competitors like this, then we can see that storj and filecoin operate in different ways. Storj is a simple hard drive + Raspberry Pi that can be mined at home, while filecoin is because Node hardware requirements are high, so there are restrictions on user participation. Of course, this is still different from other hard disk mining projects such as bitcoinhd. Therefore, we can see that storj is indeed in the cloud storage. Currently, it has certain advantages compared with filecoin. Advantage.
But we can also see that filecoin is actually used as the incentive layer of IPFS. In many ways, it is regarded as the direction of reforming the existing Internet. Although it has not been paid attention to, since last year, some public chains have actually used the IPFS protocol. After building our own test network and starting to run, of course, from the perspective of use, it can indeed enable us to click on the link to watch the content as if we are viewing the webpage. Then this kind of imagination is still relatively large, and storj currently has no related applications. Domain, so the imagination space may be relatively small.
Taken together, in fact, filecoin may tell more stories in the future, while storj is doing a better job in commercial applications. At the same time, compared to traditional cloud storage services, the cost is very low, but blockchain cloud storage At present, the development of technology still needs further efforts, because there are still several failures in the experience, so from the overall point of view, in fact, the blockchain cloud storage section can be considered at present, but the specific future development needs to be It depends on the progress of the specific project party, especially in the case of immature technology like filecoin. The main gap of filecoin is not only in terms of technology, but also in terms of marketing and incentive models. Therefore, it is impossible to see anything in the short term. Especially good investment potential, and if it is only cloud storage business, storj can satisfy it.
