“The mainnet will be launched soon. There are not many mining machines in stock at the moment, so bosses in need are welcome to buy them.”
Recently, the sales staff of Filecoin mining machines have begun to promote their mining machines on WeChat.
Accompanied by the shouts of sales staff, major institutions in the industry have also begun to hold various Filecoin themed events.
I vaguely remember that the last time this hot situation occurred was when Bitcoin was halved.
The current altitude is 148820. According to Filecoin’s official announcement, the Filecoin mainnet will be officially launched when the space test epoch reaches 148888.
The belated mainnet is highly anticipated.
Filecoin mainnet finally arrived
Filecoin’s popularity has long been around.
The main network has not yet been launched, and the market has already set off a crazy “gold rush”. Mining machines have been sold round after round, and futures have also been fired and fired in the secondary market, with an increase of 407.81% during the year. The industry can be described as a lively scene.
However, along with the popularity of DeFi and the constant bounce of Filecoin, Filecoin has been dying in the past few months.
Now, this kind of heat has returned.
On September 28, 2020, since Filecoin officially announced that the mainnet will be launched soon, the industry’s attention to Filecoin has begun to rise.
This kind of enthusiasm can be seen from the FIL currency price.
CMC platform data shows that in the past six months, the price of FIL futures has risen from more than 30 yuan to the current 330 yuan.
In the Filecoin community, discussions have also increased a lot compared to before.
Everyone is watching and waiting for this moment.
Some people bought a lot of FIL futures, looking forward to the emergence of a skyrocket after the mainnet went live, some people began to assault mining machines, waiting for the mainnet to come.
There are still many practitioners who may not be involved, but they are still watching the arrival of the mainnet closely with certain expectations and concerns.
Players are gearing up, and various organizations are not letting go. Various propaganda posters dominate the circle of friends.
Across the screen, cryptocurrency bigwigs and enthusiasts from all over the world are discussing topics related to Filecoin’s mainnet launch, which is extremely lively.
At the same time, Filecoin has also been favored by major exchanges.
On October 10th, OKEx’s official announcement showed that OKEx will launch FIL transactions as soon as the Filecoin mainnet is launched, and open deposit and withdrawal services.
On the same day, Huobi Global also chose to follow up.
On October 13, many exchanges including BitZ, MXC Matcha and other exchanges announced that they would list FIL almost simultaneously. Just today, Binance also announced that it would list FIL.
However, on the eve of this much anticipated, there has been some controversy in the Filecoin community.
On October 14, the miner Reentropy Technology issued the “Announcement on Suspension of Sales of Reentropy Technology.”
The “Announcement” stated that the Filecoin mainnet will be launched soon, but due to the unclear rules of the mainnet, the possibility of official adjustments to the existing economic model is not excluded. Therefore, Inverse Entropy Technology decided to suspend all sales activities.
The goal is to directly point to Filecoin’s official dissatisfaction with the pre-mortgage requirements in the mainnet online rules.
Coincidentally, the statement that the IPFS Force Zone advances the initial pledge part in advance has also raised questions from miners.
On the same day, another Filecoin miner, Diancun Technology, caused an uproar among the miners because of a statement from the CEO.
Some players said that the CEO of Dianzhuan announced that all miners need to purchase 350FIL as a pre-mortgage after the mainnet goes online.
Although the remarks were later explained by Diancun Technology, they indicated that the remarks were misinterpreted. But it can’t solve a thorny problem, that is, in the current situation, the mining machines of the whole network are basically in a half-powered state. Because of the restriction of the pledge currency, the mining machines cannot be sealed at full speed, and this will directly lead to the interests of the miners. Be diluted.
In this way, it is no wonder that the community is dissatisfied with Filecoin official.
In fact, for Filecoin, miners and miners have been full of mixed feelings.
Repeatedly bounced, Filecoin “Ace Pigeon” Road
The Filecoin story has to start with a Mexican guy.
Juan Benet (Juan Benet) was born on March 16, 1988 in Cuernava, Mexico.
At the time, he lived in a three-bedroom rental house in an alley on the outskirts of Palo Alto, California.
Among the three rooms, one room lived with Juan and his girlfriend, another room lived with a programmer, and another room came and went with many people.
Perhaps Juan at the time didn’t know that he would make great achievements together with the programmers in this room and some of the residents who came and went.
In 2012, Juan successfully graduated from Stanford University as a graduate student in computer science and started his own entrepreneurial road.
During the founding of Athena, Juan was exposed to blockchain technology, and since then, he has been unable to extricate himself.
In 2014, Hu An, who is a computer professional, deeply felt that there are many problems with the current HTTP protocol commonly used on the Internet. In order to solve these problems, Hu An, his girlfriend, and several like-minded partners jointly established the Protocol Lab. , Began to show its strength in the blockchain field, and launched IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), which is also known as the InterPlanetary File System.
Three years later, in 2017, the Protocol Lab officially launched the Filecoin project, aiming to provide corresponding value anchors for storage services, and this year was also the most intense year in the history of blockchain.
ICO was crazy, Bitcoin skyrocketed, and embracing the blockchain became the slogan and craze at the time.
At that time, Filecoin was proud of its slogan “store the most important information of all mankind”, which was recognized by a large number of investors in the industry. In addition, Filecoin is the incentive layer of the interplanetary file system IPFS, which has been placed high expectations and expectations by the market. The mainnet has not been launched yet, it has been hyped by “pre-sale”, “pre-mining”, “double-mining” and other gimmicks. wave.
With the help of ICO, in September 2017, Filecoin launched a public offering at a price of US$5 and raised US$257 million in just 30 minutes. It was the blockchain project with the highest amount of funds raised at that time. Investors include Y Combinator and Sequoia Capital. Many star capitals.
However, what is disappointing is that Filecoin drove high and low, holding huge financing, but its testnet and mainnet have repeatedly bounced.
As a result, many people began to wonder if Filecoin was a fraudulent project.
On March 16, 2018, Protocol Lab announced that the launch time of the Filecoin beta will be postponed from June to the end of the year.
On February 14, 2019, the Filecoin testnet announced that it will once again postpone the launch time to the second quarter of the year, and the mainnet launch time will be launched to the third or fourth quarter.
On September 25, 2019, the Filecoin testnet was delayed again. The testnet that was originally scheduled to go online on December 11 of that year was launched until March 2020. Although the first phase of the Filecoin testnet went live as scheduled, Filecoin’s road to ticket skipping Still going on.
On March 14 this year, Filecoin adjusted the end time of Phase 1 of the testnet to April 17, the opening time of Phase 2 was changed to April 20, and the mainnet launch time was changed to July.
Faced with this postponement, many bigwigs in the industry are eloquent.
Filecoin business developer Angie Maguire said that the mainnet of the project will be launched this summer. According to the public roadmap, the Filecoin mainnet is expected to be launched in the time window from July 20 to August 20.
Private equity investors also told reporters that Filecoin private equity investors have received emails and will issue coins in August.
However, July has passed and August has also slipped away. We still haven’t waited for the Filecoin mainnet to go live.
Filecoin was last postponed on July 11 this year. Filecoin officially announced that the global miner contest originally scheduled to start on July 20 will be postponed to August 3; the mainnet launch date will be postponed from the planned end of August to August 31 Until September 21.
Faced with repeated delays, Yan Zitong of Xi’an agile was a little disappointed and helpless.
“It’s useless to communicate many times. The official says it will go online whenever it goes online.”
On September 28, 2020, the official finally issued a quasi-letter, stating that it will be officially opened when the space test epoch reaches 148,888.
This time is today, October 15th.
However, today is different from the past, especially in the cryptocurrency field of “one day in the currency circle, one year in the world”.
Before the DeFi heat surviving, after the Polkadot cross-chain gearing up, the Filecoin mainnet after multiple bounces, can it still get what you want after it goes online?
Contradictions between the official and the miners
The launch of the Filecoin mainnet can indeed bring a lot of benefits to the entire Filecoin ecosystem.
First of all, the unlocked part of private equity investors’ tokens can be traded on mainstream exchanges, and miners can also convert their computing power into income.
Earlier, Spacetime Cloud investor Xu Wenjie once posted to Moments that after the mainnet went live on October 15, if the FIL price is more than 200 yuan, the net worth of these people on the screen will exceed 8 billion, and they will be matched with their own and other miners’ Group photo.
Up to now, the price of FIL futures on the CMC platform has reached 330 yuan, and on non-small accounts, the price of FIL6 has also reached 191 yuan, close to 200 yuan.
In addition, Filecoin, as the leader of the decentralized storage track, is successfully launched and runs smoothly, which will boost the confidence of the entire industry.
According to the current economic model officially stipulated by Filecoin, FIL may become more scarce in the early days of the mainnet launch, and its currency price will also have a greater room for growth in the future.
However, some people are happy and some are worried.
For Filecoin’s official rules, some people like it, but more people are dissatisfied.
Just today, Ling Fa, the dean of the BiMaWeng Blockchain Research Institute, said in an interview with the media that the release of revenue brought by SR1 and SR2 is far from satisfying the demand for mortgage. After the mainnet is launched, the computing power of the entire network will increase. The speed will slow down rapidly, and the miners’ income is extremely low. In addition, Filecoin’s soft fork is very loud.
“According to Filecoin’s official rules, it will take at least one year for miners to recover the cost. This is still under the premise of having a mining effect.” A big miner who has been deeply involved in Filecoin complained to reporters.
Prior to this, Xi’an Smart Yan Zitong told reporters that at this stage, both miners and miners in the Filecoin industry are generally dissatisfied with the protocol laboratory. If the protocol laboratory still insists on going its own way and does not pay attention to the voice of Chinese players, then the result may be “exciting”.
In fact, since the end of the first round of the Filecoin space race, there have been various forks in the community.
On September 18 this year, Filecoin miner MIX announced that it would fork its own distributed storage blockchain.
Almost at the same time, EPIK, the main slogan of “abandoned miners”, also forked its own public chain in Filecoin.
Perhaps it is worried that the huge Chinese community is surging, or it is realized that the mainnet rules are indeed unreasonable. This morning, with less than 24 hours left on the Filecoin mainnet, Filecoin officially released the new mainnet rules:
1. Filecoin officially compensates miners whose available balance is negative, so that miners have no debt before entering the main network;
2. In the past week, miners who actively prove storage capacity on the SR2 network can receive a one-time 100FL reward;
3. Miners will soon receive emails related to SR1 rewards, which contain SR1 rewards and related instructions;
4. Miners are requested to receive rewards in the Coinlist account in time according to relevant operations;
5. For those who have not registered an address before the deadline, their rewards will be sent to their Coinlist account.
Although in the new rules, Filecoin officially stated that it will issue 100 FIL rewards to miners in SR2 who actively prove storage capacity, and will compensate miners whose available balance is negative.
But Filecoin’s move is still not recognized by miners.
“This kind of compensation is meaningless.” Inverse Entropy Technology, which previously announced that it would stop selling mining machines, will still not resume the sale of mining machines under the new rules.
“At present, it is completely impossible to sell mining machines. Even the previously sold mining machines, the first and second test coins and effective computing power cannot be covered.” Inverse Entropy told reporters.
Although the new regulations have been introduced, the burden on miners has been reduced accordingly.
But in Lao Wu’s view, the current rules only cover some of the miners who participated in the earliest, which is very unfriendly to the miners who enter the market later.
“Moreover, I’m not sure what the official saying is that there is no debt. Does it mean that the number of startups or the total number can be achieved?” Lao Wu expressed his doubts to the reporter.
Earlier miners used counterfeit coins on the testnet as pledges, but new miners must purchase FIL at high positions as pledges.
There is a risk here, that is, what if the price of FIL suffers a sharp drop in the future, or no one takes the order?
“Personally, the majority of miners are not satisfied with the current plan, and the possibility of greater adjustments will not be ruled out in the future.” Lao Wu told reporters.
Regardless of how much controversy Filecoin itself may have, at present, the mainnet is undisputedly about to go live.
After Filecoin goes online, what changes will happen to its currency price? Can the conflict between the government and the miners be properly resolved? Where is the future of Filecoin, which is haunted by forks?
These questions have not been resolved before the mainnet launch of Filecoin, will you get an answer after the launch of the mainnet?
For a long time, Filecoin has been considered the biggest outlet in 2020, a story worth tens of billions of dollars. Now the mainnet is online, the story of tens of billions of dollars has really begun.
