On the afternoon of the 18th, at the World Mining Conference-Xiamen station hosted by Lianwen and Winkrypto, Han Weiping, chairman of MIX Group, said that Filecoin would be forked. At noon on the 18th, Han Weiping also told Wu that the blockchain confirmed the news. On the morning of the 18th, an anonymous team announced a fork. Multiple mining machine manufacturers confirmed that there will be more teams announcing forks in the future. Du Jun, the founder of Node Capital, a heavy supporter of Filecoin, said that he would support the fork. The official position on this is still unclear.
Han Weiping said that we are one of the most important forking teams. In 2015, Wu Jihan was talking to me about forking BTC, but at that time he felt that the reason for the fork was not sufficient, but the reason for forking Filecoin is very sufficient now. .
Han Weiping said, first, a large number of Intel machines cannot enter the Filecoin system, but it is actually easy to improve; second, the sealing process is very complicated; third, the TPS efficiency is relatively low; fourth, the pre-mortgage is too high, which is conducive to early investment Fifth, only officials can define valid data; Sixth, Filecoin developers do not pay attention to the voice of the community, and miners have nowhere to go for tens of billions of assets; Seventh, only 70% of the coins are generated by mining. The advantage is too obvious.
In order to solve this problem, Han Weiping proposed to unite the strength of the community, and finally IPFS is ideal to solve the above problems. On the 19th, the public beta will start tomorrow and mining will be available, and the mainnet will be launched in October.
On the World Mining Conference-Xiamen website, Andy, the co-founder of 1475, said that 5-6 fork teams have approached them. He expressed his expectation and hoped to use this to put pressure on the Filecoin official to change the model. However, Fan Yifan, the CMO of Encryption Matrix, disagreed. He said that it is best to be able to condense into one chain, without breaking the consensus, and make a network stronger. Most of the previous forked coins did not do well.
Han Weiping is an early investor in the currency circle, and has invested in many tracks, including mining, OTC, wallet, IPFS, DeFi, etc.
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according toFilecoin released the most stringent mining model, 80% of the mining machine manufacturers may eliminate the purchase of cloud computing power, what should I do? (POC Series 5), The official white paper released in early September proposed an extremely strict economic model for miners. Wu said that the blockchain once pointed out that the extremely low amount of mining release, the ultra-high pre-stake, and the extremely strict penalty for technical errors. The combination of these factors is a fatal blow to a large number of mining machine manufacturers at the end of the industry. 80% of them will face the concentrated thunderstorm after the mainnet launch.
Because the miners have too much opinion, the official seems to have some appeasement:Interpretation of Filecoin's new rules: the official bows to small and medium-sized miners to gain a chance (POC series 6). On September 8, the official announcement of the economic model update proposed that block reward unlocking will be delayed for 20 days, and the unlocking will start immediately after mining; the sector failure detection fee and sector termination fee will be lowered to reduce the risk of miners’ operation and maintenance; the minimum storage order is pledged Downgrade etc.
For some miners, forking has become an inevitable choice. But some miners and retail investors do not seem to support it. Wu said that voting was conducted in the blockchain Filecoin community, and there were very few supporters. For a complex system like Filecoin, there are still a lot of official bugs and an undetermined economic model. It is still doubtful whether the fork has enough technical strength to promote it.
According to Beep NEWS, Sun Ming, a partner of Fenbushi Capital, mentioned in an interview that miners who have invested a lot of hardware resources are promoting the fork of Filecoin. Mining output is too small, making it difficult for early miners to obtain enough mining income to maintain operations. On the one hand, the potential reason for the fork is the miners’ protest against Protocol Labs (requiring it to modify the economic model), and on the other hand, the miners are forced to make a desperate fight. Hu Feng, FILPool mining pool operation partner and COO of Space-time Cloud Technology, told Beep News: "Currently big miners have ideas, but it will be possible after the mainnet is launched. "
In the early morning of the 18th, the first anonymous fork project, Filecoin Vision, published the article "Filecoin Vision Manifesto" through GitHub. The manifesto explained the problems of Filecoin, and Han Weiping told Wu that it was his project. These include:
1. The share that can be mined has dropped from 70% to about 30% at the beginning of the main network. 2. Pre-mortgage and post-block reward linear release. 3. The failure of Window PoSt within half an hour will result in a token penalty, and it must be repaired the next day. 4. The commitment data verified by the verifier has 10 times the storage power. 5. Protocol Labs tends to use ethics to constrain the behavior of miners, rather than on-chain rules. 6. Protocol Labs owns 15% of the tokens, and the Foundation owns 5% of the tokens.
In this regard, Filecoin Vision announced that it will implement many improvements, including: 1. The mineable share will be increased to 99%. 2. Reduce the pre-mortgage amount, so that every miner can easily participate in mining. 3. Window PoSt allows lenient retrying of commits. 4. If the Garbage sector is lost or disconnected, there will be no penalty for the pledged coins. 5. Punishment is lenient. Punishment must be determined to determine malicious behavior and never punish excessively. 6. Malicious behaviors that cannot be well identified through the rules on the chain will never be punished. 7. Punishments will be predetermined but deferred to avoid a domino reaction. 8. No verifier, no verified commitment data. 9. Advocate morality, but tend to rationalize the rules on the chain, and do not exclude human selfishness.
