Filecoin, which is concerned by many investors in China, is about to go online, and there are endless controversies on the eve of the launch. A screenshot on the 14th sparked heated discussions in the industry, saying that the CEO of Diancun announced that miners need to purchase Fil as a pre-mortgage for the mainnet launch, and then there is another statement that they can borrow FIL as collateral.
Then a well-timed statement from The Force Zone stated that the initial pledge would be paid in advance, triggering more discussions and mutual attacks.
So far, the problem of the shortage of pledged coins before going online has finally been exposed. This is also the reason why mining machine factories in almost every community have been asking for FIL test coins. Filecoin is on fire, but it seems that various companies have stopped promoting and selling mining machines and cloud computing power. To some extent, it is also due to the shortage of mortgage coins. But this problem is not willing to be exposed, because it will affect sales and customer interests, until the counting of deposits punctures the emperor's new clothes.
Diancun responded that, first, this is based on the data calculated based on the parameters of the main network at 8:00 p.m. on October 13; You only need to prepare 4.8 FIL a day; thirdly, miners don’t have to buy so much, and they don’t need to prepare additional pledge coins. Most customers have SR1 rewards, which are released in 180 days, and 0.5 FIL per day can be used for pledge.
Full text of the reference point deposit response:Diancun Responds to the Pledge Coin Controversy
The full text of Diancun’s response also reveals an embarrassing situation: that is, if the official economic parameters of Filecoin are not adjusted, based on the current situation, the mining machines of the entire network will basically be in a half-boot state. Impossible to archive at full speed. In other words, under the current policy, there is a serious surplus of Filecoin mining machines and a serious shortage of pledged coins.
The controversy about the initial pledge comes from the design of Filecoin, that is, if you start mining, the pledge amount of each fan blade (32G) is about the output of the fan blade for 20 days, and the upper limit is 1FIL, that is, every time you increase the effective value of 1T Computing power requires a pre-stake of 32 FIL (initial).
According to the calculation of Mars Cloud Mine, miners package 331,250 sectors per day at a rate of 10.6PiB/day. According to the current mortgage demand of about 0.4FIL/sector, the entire network needs to mortgage 133,000 FIL per day. According to the current policy, during the 180-day unlocking period, miners unlock 21,000 FIL on the first day, 30,000 FIL on the 10th day, and 50,000 FIL on the 30th day. Another proposal that has not yet been passed is to immediately unlock 25%, which is 1/4 of 173,000 FIL, about 43,250 FIL. In any case, the number of mortgage coins is far from enough, so the entire industry is currently in short supply of mortgage coins.
Filecoin puts too much pressure on the miners, so Diande distributes the pressure evenly to the hosting miners. However, this sudden change has caused the cost of miners to increase sharply, and it is inevitable to be dissatisfied. Considering that the incentive mechanism of Filecoin has been adjusted, this situation is inevitable, and it can be expected that the policies of other manufacturers may be adjusted in the future.
Other mining machine manufacturers have different attitudes. 1475 said that relevant policies will be disclosed after the mainnet goes live. Space-time Cloud said that the mortgage in the early stage will help users provide it, and users need to mortgage themselves after digging out coins in the later stage, and the cloud computing power customers are all handled by the company. Interstellar Continent said that the policy is similar to that of the Force Zone, and the mortgage currency is paid by the company in advance. The main reason may be that the scale, sales price, and strategy bring about different responses.
According to Mars Cloud Mine’s calculations, after the mainnet goes live, early investors will unlock and release 351,000 FIL per day, and the official will unlock and release 182,500 FIL per day, but promise not to sell it in the early stage. Investors' FIL will become the source of pledged coins. At present, exchanges such as Huobi, OKEx, and Matcha have launched various activities to welcome the launch of Filecoin. Due to the urgent demand for pledged coins, the FIL released by private equity investors will be snapped up. It can be expected that the price of the currency will rise, and even a coin is hard to find in the market.
But there is also a problem in this way. The pledged coins of major manufacturers include their own private placement coins, and they also need to buy coins in the market. If the price of the coins soars, manufacturers will be under great pressure to buy pledged coins by themselves, and may also have to transfer the pressure To customers or retail investors.
The point deposit statement also exposed an unspoken industry rule, that is, "If we reduce the storage speed by 10 times, then we only need to submit 0.49 pledged coins per day, so that the pressure on us to advance the pledged coins will be greatly reduced, but if the deposit is full M9 will take 900 days, it is not cost-effective for the customer, and from the perspective of integrity, we cannot secretly operate it without the knowledge of the customer."
Many manufacturers have sold a large number of mining machines and cloud computing power before. It is not yet known whether they will adopt this method if they do not have enough pledged coins.
Against such a brutal backdrop, some miners are considering forking coins. Wu said the blockchain previously disclosed<MIX Group Han Weiping announced that the fork Filecoin will go online on September 19th and there will be a "fork wave">It is also named Filecash and officially announced its launch, but there are not many participants at present. It is suspected that the main network is not yet fully prepared, and major exchanges have not admitted it. Although people from all walks of life claim that there are more than 10 teams preparing to fork, but after a burst of hype, it seems that not many are really advancing.
The problem is that the Filecoin network is very complex, there are still many official bugs, and the outside world still has doubts about whether the forked currency can be safely promoted. Because of Filecoin's penalty mechanism, it is impossible to form a machine gun pool similar to POW forked coins. Another platform called fompound launched the concept of Hashrate Coin, and advertised that it was supported by the Hellofil mining pool and more than a dozen tokenfunds to share costs, but it has not been recognized by exchanges or large institutions for the time being.
At present, almost all miners are complaining about the strict mechanism of the government and the fact that it is too favorable to investors and the government itself. But from another perspective, mining machine manufacturers have sold a large amount of cloud computing power and mining machines under the hype of public opinion, and the capital side still has certain strength. After going online, due to the different technologies and strategies of different manufacturers, customers will find that the income gap is large, and rights protection incidents may occur one after another.
