After several bounced tickets, at 6 am on August 25th, the Filecoin Incentive Testnet (also known as the Space Race) with a reward of up to 4.1 million FIL was finally launched.
Major miners and miners are also active again, and all miners have expressed their joy of "dust settled" by recording videos and sending newsletters. Mining machine manufacturer Force Zone issued a document stating that the company has prepared more than 10 nodes to participate in the competition.
In the secondary market, according to non-small data, the price of FIL futures began to climb since the morning of August 22, and reached a high of $23 at around 6:00 today, with a three-day increase of 34%. After all the good news, the price of the currency began to pull back, and fell by 8%. As of press time, it was reported at 21.55 US dollars.
By 7:20, the height of the test network reached block 101. Filecoin developer why said in the slack community that the first bug had been discovered, which led to the stop of block production. After verification, it was found that it was triggered by an information filter. After 10 minutes of official repairs has returned to normal. According to The Force Zone, the bug was discovered by its engineer JunLong Lee.
At 9:55, according to the filfox browser, the joint node leader & Lianpai Technology (t01102) became the first unofficial node to complete the package, and obtained 32GB of effective computing power. Immediately afterwards, the two nodes of Lianpai Technology also successively Complete the package. One hour later, Diancun Technology (t01155) became the first cluster node to complete packaging, with an effective computing power of 5TB.
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Data from: filfox browser
After qualifying, according to Diancun Technology, its exposed IP address was attacked by a large number of DDOS in a short period of time, and the attack bandwidth reached 21Gbps. Previously, there was a Slack user "Song Jiang" who threatened to attack mining nodes. I don't know if this is what he did.
As of 14:20, Space Race has mined block 1006, with an average storage capacity of 782TiB and an average storage speed of 20.74TB/H. The number of active miners has reached 126, but only 26 miners have obtained effective computing power, of which 5 are Miners have successfully produced blocks.
It is understood that the space race is designed to encourage miners to participate in the operation, so as to stress test the Filecoin network and find bugs. After the competition, the top 100 miners in the world and the top 50 miners in each continent will distribute 4 million FIL rewards in a certain proportion, and the top 20 big miners who receive block rewards will also share an additional 10 Ten thousand FIL.
The incentive network test period is 21 days. After the testnet is over, the Filecoin mainnet will be officially launched after the audit. The current mainnet launch time is expected to be in mid-to-late September.
Below, Odaily sorts out three more important issues about the space race.
1. Qualifications
Participating miners must respond to storage and retrieval transaction requests from order bots and maintain a success rate of 80% or above. If the order success rate is less than 80%, the qualification will be cancelled. The order bot will start trading with miners who have successfully sealed the sector within 12-24 hours of the start of the competition, and will continue to make transaction requests throughout the competition.
In order to prove that the miner can perform the entire life cycle (life cycle), participants must perform packaging at least once in the competition and perform subsequent upgrades to receive rewards.
2. Quantity and Distribution of Rewards
A total of 4.1 million Fil rewards are divided into 3 shares. In theory, the 20 miners with the highest computing power can share each share.
The first reward comes from your own region, each of the six continents is a region, sharing 500,000 pieces, 50*6=3 million pieces. The winning ratio for a single miner is: storage capacity of the miner/network storage capacity of the top 50 miners.
The second reward from around the world, with a prize pool of 1 million pieces. The winning ratio for a single miner is: storage capacity of the miner/network storage capacity of the top 100 miners.
The third big miner reward, the prize pool is 100,000 pieces. It is used to distribute the block rewards to the top 20 miners.
These coins will become part of the source of pre-mortgage for miners to participate in mainnet mining.
Are the rewards for the big miner test distributed to customers who have purchased computing power? According to different mining machine manufacturers, each miner may have a different allocation plan.
3. What does it mean to be the first to package and produce blocks?
The core code of this space race is basically the same as the main network, and it is paid mining. Powerful miners have full motivation to participate. Therefore, for investors, this "mock test" is not only a test of the function of the blockchain network, but also a test of the technical solutions of large miners. Therefore, the results of the competition have also attracted much attention.
According to the browserfilfox.infoAccording to Xu, the operator, the number of visits to the website soared to tens of thousands of times in a short period of time, causing the server to fail to respond in a timely manner.
Eight hours have passed since the space race. Except for the protocol lab, 36 miners have obtained effective computing power, and 5 of them have successfully produced blocks.
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Data from:filscan.io, interception time: 14:00
We who are watching the game don’t need to worry, only by letting the bullets fly for a while, can we know who is stronger. The current effective computing power and block generation are not enough to explain too much.
As the "Director" of the Force Zone said, judging the technical strength of a miner's node should also look at three indicators: total FIL revenue, block production efficiency, and single T revenue.
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Guide to activities around the space race:
At 6:00 a.m. Beijing time on Thursday, August 27th, the official opening ceremony of the space race will be held. In addition, there will be activities almost every day in the next three weeks, and interested friends can also pay attention.
Mining seminars will be held every Wednesday at 9:00 am Beijing time (August 25th will discuss how to solve common problems; September 1st will discuss how to optimize and new functions; September 8th will discuss how to prepare for the launch of the mainnet);
Filecoin real-time AMA starts every Thursday at 9:00 am;
Miner demonstrations and speeches, starting at 9:00 am every Friday;
The Space Race Report, which opens at 9:00 am every Saturday;
Other in-depth learning courses such as CryptoEconomics, Mining Cluster Configuration, etc. will also be arranged throughout the competition.
