Editor | Hao Fangzhou
Editor | Hao Fangzhou
On the evening of October 15th, the Filecoin mainnet was officially launched. After the DeFi craze subsided, another hot spot in the currency circle this year, Filecoin, finally came to the fore.
After two years, the launch of this "magnificent giant system" has stirred people's hearts, and because too many stakeholders have been involved in the past two years, Filecoin's launch road has been turbulent.
On September 18 alone, two teams announced the fork of Filecoin. These "independents" stated several "crimes" of the Filecoin project party, and made adjustments in project governance and economic mechanisms. Even, in order to seize the "first-mover advantage", Filecash initiated by MIX Group was launched on the main network yesterday.
Regardless of whether these fork movements are ultimately successful or successful, Filecoin's large and rich ecological participants compete with each other based on their own interests, showing the vitality and hope of this community.
For investors, previously they mainly invested in Filecoin by purchasing mining machines, cloud computing power or futures, but they can also participate through secondary market transactions after tonight.
In August of this year, Odaily issued an invitation to "open data to participate in the selection" to well-known Chinese Filecoin mining machine manufacturers on the market.
After more than a month of hard work, Odaily finally selected from more than 10 registered manufacturers9 manufacturers with more open data and relatively more reliable data presented 15 solutions for mining machines, cloud computing power and clusters, covering 160 parameters in terms of performance and price.
Today, when the mainnet is launched, as one of the activities to welcome the new mainnet,The FAT 2020 Filecoin Top 9 Mining Manufacturers list is officially released. The manufacturers on the list are Pomegranate Mining Pool, YPOOL, Panda Mining Machine, Heiben Technology, Space-Time Cloud, Xi'an Lingdong, Binhe Yunzhi, Encryption Cloud and Athena mining pool.(The ranking is mainly based on the time when manufacturers submit information to Odaily, and the ranking is in no particular order; no fees are charged for this list)
It should be noted that the original intention of Odaily and manufacturers to release this list is to clarify the necessary information for purchasing mining machines and understand the meaning of various data in mining solutions, and to provide readers with one-stop information integration, including various 8 fundamentals of miners, 4 transparency indicators, 9 test network performance indicators and 11-26 mining plan details.
Of course, our scheme also has limitations. For example, the data in this list are all provided by the manufacturers themselves (also the data they provide to investors). As for whether the mining machines behind them are as they say, investors still need to identify them in multiple ways. This list will also synthesize the fundamentals and Transparency metrics, for reference. Furthermore, some parameters of the Filecoin network are undecided, and manufacturers update and iterate products faster. The mining solutions described in this list are time-sensitive. After the list is released (October 15th), the miners’ plans may change. Investors are advised to go to each official website to obtain the latest information.
Nevertheless, this list upholds an objective and fair position, provides data & information, and at the same time clarifies the methodology for choosing mining products. It is of certain reference significance for helping investors recognize some Filecoin manufacturers and mining solutions. The rapid growth of effective computing power means that the performance of the solution is better." The one-sided statement is more reliable.
This list is divided into six parts, which are the fundamentals of the 10 miners (Table 1) and the information disclosure index (Table 2), the results of the first phase of the incentive testnet for each miner (Table 3), and the Comparison of miners' mining machines (Table 4), cloud computing power (Table 5) and cluster (Table 6) sales plans.
The 8 indicators of the fundamentals of miners include:
Date of establishment, type of products provided (mining machine, cloud computing power, cluster solution);
Have products equipped with Intel CPUs been sold, and if so, what upgrade solutions are provided;
The investor, investment time and amount;
Downstream partners and sales channels;
Number of technical and sales teams;
Have you contributed to the mainnet code and submitted testnet bugs?
The 4 miner transparency indicators include:
Whether to disclose the mining machine configuration and packaging speed on the official website/to investors;
Whether to write the mining machine configuration, packaging speed/cost performance into the contract.
The 7 results of the first stage of the space race include:
Number of participating nodes;
Cumulative effective computing power and total computing power ranking;
Official rewards and award rankings;
Store order success rate and retrieve order success rate.
The 12 indicators of the mining machine/cluster scheme include:
Hardware configuration, including CPU, memory, hard disk capacity, packaging speed;
Mining machine, operation and maintenance and technical service charging standards, cost-effective;
Whether to support expansion when the computing power is full.
The 11 indicators of the cloud computing power scheme include:
Unit price, technical service fee;
The initial purchase T number, contract cycle, and next custody fee;
income calculation method;
Packaging speed, cost performance;
It takes time to fill up the computing power, and whether it supports expansion;
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Fundamentals of 9 Major Manufacturers
Among these 9 major manufacturers, Space-Time Cloud, YPOOL Yaochi, Xi'an Lingdong and Encryption Cloud are the first batch of people to eat crabs, and they started to build in 2017-2018; Pomegranate Pool and Athena Pool are newcomers this year The remaining Panda Miner, Heiben Technology, Binhe Yunzhi and Encryption Cloud started their business in 2019.
The longer the year, the more manufacturers may invest in Filecoin, and even some manufacturers have launched mining machines assembled according to the network solution at that time, such as YPOOL Yaochi and Xi'an Lingdong established in 2018, which have launched Intel CPU mining machines to users (no longer applicable to the current network configuration).
In this regard, both manufacturers stated that they would be responsible for these mining machines. YPOOL has upgraded its users to the latest and available mining machines for free, and Xi’an Lingdong’s solution is to use it as a storage machine and participate in mining.
Next, look at the minersCase.Case.
Of the 9 major miners listed in this list, 6 of them have received capital injections, including Pomegranate Mining Pool, YPOOL, Space-Time Cloud, Encryption Cloud, etc. The investors are mainly Fenbushi Capital, Qtum and other currency circle funds.
From the perspective of investment amount, except for the unannounced space-time cloud, the funds received by each manufacturer are between 5 million and 15 million yuan.
Look at the manufacturersUpstream and downstream partners and sales channels(That is, B-end customers who purchase software and hardware solutions from manufacturers).
Usually, manufacturers have many partners. The partners referred to in this list are limited to "other Filecoin mining machine manufacturers", for example, A sells or purchases mining solutions to B.
Among the 9 major manufacturers, 4 miners have announced such partners, they are YPOOL Yaochi, Panda Mining Machine, Space-Time Cloud and Athena Mining Pool. Among them, the upstream software providers of Panda Miner are 1475 and Xianhe System, and other manufacturers have announced distribution channels such as exchanges and media. The customers announced by Athena Mining Pool also include traditional Internet companies such as iQiyi and Xunyou.
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Transparency of Top 9 Manufacturers
The indicators collected by Odaily include four items: whether to disclose the mining machine configuration and packaging speed on the official website/to investors; whether to write the mining machine configuration, packaging speed/cost performance into the contract.
Among these four indicators, the three manufacturers of Panda Mining Machine, Heiben Technology and Binhe Yunzhi fully disclosed the information and wrote it into the contract.
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Testnet results of 8 major manufacturers
On September 14, the first round of the Filecoin Incentive Testnet "Space Race" ended successfully, and more than 4 million FIL were distributed to hundreds of active participating big miners.
Most of the miners selected in this list have participated in the space race. Among them, 8 are willing to disclose their results. They are Pomegranate Mining Pool, YPOOL Yaochi, Heiben Technology, Space-Time Cloud, Xi'an Lingdong, Binheyun Wisdom, Encryption Cloud and Athena Pool.
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fromNumber of nodesLook, the pomegranate mining pool adopts small and medium-sized clusters, with a total of 30 nodes deployed, and other manufacturers only deploy a single node. Relatively speaking, multi-node single-point attacks and fault tolerance are stronger.
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Mining machine solutions from 7 major manufacturers
Among the 9 major mining machine manufacturers, a total of 7 major manufacturers provide mining machine solutions to users. They are YPOOL Yaochi, Panda Mining Machine, Heiben Technology, Space-Time Cloud, Xi'an Lingdong, Binhe Yunzhi and Athena Mining Pool.
These programs all use clustering programs without exception. Compared with single mining machines, the advantage of the cluster architecture is that through the classification and assembly of different hardware modules, and the unified deployment and maintenance of software, it can effectively improve mining efficiency and make it easier to increase or decrease equipment.
This is the architecture behind the miner solution. On the user-oriented sales side, the user purchases a split mining machine with a specific configuration. When the contract between the user and the manufacturer expires (usually 3 years) or the cooperation is terminated and the mining machine is retrieved, the manufacturer will The hardware devices in the cluster will be allocated to users according to the configuration.
Next, look at the manufacturersHardware Configuration,It mainly includes CPU, graphics card, memory, SSD (for cache) and hard disk. Among these parameters, the differences between the schemes mainly focus on the size of the hard disk.
CPU manufacturers generally choose AMD 3-7 series processors, and NVIDIA 2080Ti is uniformly selected for graphics cards.
It is worth noting that Heiben Technology's solution provides two CPUs without unconfigured graphics cards. The staff of Heiben Technology told Odaily that the more CPU cores and threads, the stronger the capability, so two were placed; behind the mining machine solution is a heterogeneous cluster solution, which is divided into node machines, AMD computers, GPU clusters, storage There are four cluster parts, among which the GPU cluster part is provided by the platform.
MemoryThe configurations of various manufacturers on the website range from 128GB-1024GB; the size of SSDs ranges from 0.25TB-8TB; is normal. In the following, we will also encounter data with a large series of differences. It is recommended that you compare them according to the different price levels of mining machines.(Mining machines are mainly divided into 3 grades in terms of price, 250,000-350,000 yuan for high-end mining machines, 100,000-200,000 yuan for middle-end mining machines and low-end mining machines for less than 100,000 yuan)
Generally speaking, the higher the configuration of memory, SSD and hard disk, the higher the computing performance and storage size can be obtained under the same conditions, but limited by the marginal effect, the performance improvement brought by this high configuration is not unlimited , when it reaches a "singularity", the performance improvement obtained by adding 1GB of memory is no longer as good as before. This point is the optimal configuration of the hard disk of the mining machine.
We see that the hardware configurations of the above manufacturers are quite different. Whether the specific high configuration is necessary or not is the optimal configuration of the mining machine, we need to comprehensively consider the input and output of the solution to judge. May wish to look down first.
continuepackage speed, which is one of the most important references. It is used to measure the speed of packaging files per hour by the manufacturer. It has the most direct impact on the growth of computing power/storage capacity (but it is not the only influencing factor), and the unit is GB/h.
From the data point of view, the higher packaging speed can reach 100+ GB/h, and the lowest is less than 20GB/h. Most of the packaging speeds of other manufacturers are between 80-90GB/h.
Solutions with higher package speeds tend to cost more. read onReference items in terms of price。
As mentioned above, the market price of Filecoin mining machines is generally divided into three grades, the high-end mining machines (Heiben Technology, Space-Time Cloud, Xi’an Lingdong and Athena Mining Pool) for 250,000-350,000 yuan, and the medium-end version for 100,000-200,000 yuan. Mining machines (Panda Mining Machine, Binhe Yunzhi) and low-profile mining machines (YPOOL Yaochi) that are less than 100,000 yuan.
With these mining machines with such a large price difference, should investors try to equip the mining machines with the best performance, or buy mining machines within their own capabilities?
In fact, both ideas are wrong. Investors should indeed do what they can, but more importantly, they should use their money wisely and choose cost-effective mining machines. In fact, when the fundamentals of manufacturers are not much different, if you try to choose a manufacturer by comparing parameters, then the price/performance ratio must be the most important indicator.
This list countsTwo cost-effective data, the first is the cost-effectiveness of the whole machine, and the calculation method is "packaging speed/selling price", thus obtaining a value with the unit of GB/h/10,000 yuan, which represents the packaging capacity obtained by purchasing the entire mining machine.
But some people think that it is not scientific to simply measure output by packaging speed. Because the packaging capability can only affect the growth rate of the computing power, but cannot determine the size of the computing power. If the hard disk capacity (theoretical computing power) of the two mining machines is 100T, then it is meaningful to compare the packaging speed. There is also a huge difference in currency output, but this is not reflected in the above cost-effective formula.
For this, we need to addAnother index: cost performance after deducting storage costs. Its calculation method is "packaging speed / (sale price - storage cost)", which deducts the storage cost, indicating the pure packaging capacity obtained per 10,000 yuan, and the unit is also G/h/10,000 yuan.
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fromCost performance of the whole machineLook, the lowest among the seven major miners does not exceed 3 GB/h/10,000 yuan, the highest can reach 6 GB/h/10,000 yuan, and the rest of the miners are mostly 3.5-5 GB/h/10,000 yuan.
look againPrice/Performance Net of Storage Costs, among them, Space-Time Cloud, Xi'an Lingdong, and Binhe Yunzhi could not provide data because they could not calculate the storage cost independently.
"You can't just count hard disks. The cost of hard disks or storage machines is relatively small," said Hu Feng, COO of Space-time Cloud Technology. "If you want to count, you also count the cost of the entire cluster. The cost of a single T of our cluster is about 1000/T."
Of course, each manufacturerTechnical solutions and cost accounting methodsNot the same, the remaining 4 miners have calculated the storage cost and the cost performance after deducting the storage cost.
storage coststorage cost, The data is basically polarized. The storage cost of YPOOL Yaochi and Panda mining machines is about 10,000 to 30,000 yuan, while the storage cost of Heiben Technology and Athena mining pool is as huge as 100,000 yuan. In this regard, the staff of the Athena mining pool told Odaily, "What we provide to users is the actual use of storage after redundancy, instead of only providing bare disk storage servers, it is priced at 900 yuan per T of storage, 900*120= 108,000 yuan." Heiben Technology also expressed similar ideas.
Look againPrice/Performance Net of Storage Costs, the lowest parameter is 4.5GB/h/10,000 yuan, and most of the other manufacturers are between 4.5-6GB/h/10,000 yuan.
Seeing this, you may have a feeling of knowing. But in fact, there are two parameters that are closely related to the cost performance of the mining machine.Operation and maintenance costs and technical service revenue commission, is not included in the formula because it is non-standard, and investors are reminded to take it into consideration.
Among the seven major manufacturers, Athena Mining Pool and Xi'an Lingdong pack the two together and charge a total of 20% of the revenue as a service fee, while YPOOL Yaochi, Heiben Technology, Shikong Cloud and Binhe Yunzhi charge a fixed fee for operation and maintenance. Fees, the price is 10,000-18,000 yuan/set/year, and the technical service fee is 10%-20% of the income. Panda Miner adopts the policy of free operation and maintenance for the first year, and the technical service fee is 15% of the income.
last lookTime-consuming to fill up computing power, which is mainly determined by the hard disk capacity and packaging speed of the mining machine. This data affects when investors can obtain theoretical computing power and the speed of subsequent expansion of computing power. On the whole, the four manufacturers represented by Xi'an Lingdong take a short time to fully store, at the latest 2 months, and the manufacturers that take a long time take about 3-6 months.
After the storage is full, all manufacturers support the expansion of computing power. At this time, we need to pay attention to the expansion price provided by the manufacturer, which determines the cost of continued investment.
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3 Cloud Computing Solutions from Major Vendors
Among the 9 major miners, only 3 provide cloud computing power solutions directly to retail investors, namely Panda Miner, Space-time Cloud and Xi'an Lingdong.
3 major manufacturersPrice per TBetween 1500-2000 yuan, the minimum number of T purchases is very low (ranging from 0-1T), the contract period is 2-3 years, and the technical service fee is between 20-25%.
There is a special case in the latter two data, which is that the cloud computing power contract period provided by Panda Miner is permanent. "But the main premise is that the configuration of the mining machine is not eliminated, then users can continue to expand the capacity, and the cost of expansion will be much cheaper. The current tentative price is around 300 yuan/T." Jiang He, head of the Panda Mining Machine Project, told Odaily.
Different from the mining machine solution, in addition to these hard indicators, investment in cloud computing power should also pay special attentionRevenue Calculation. The calculation methods of the three companies on this list are similar. Taking the mining pool as the unit, users will share the revenue from the mining pool according to the proportion. The calculation formula is,
Daily income = the number of T held by the user ÷ the total number of T announced to the public × the total daily coin production announced to the public × (1-technical service fee)
The difference is that Xi'an Lingdong has refined the 180-day sexual release rules into it.
Generally speaking, users of this calculation method need to pay attention to the total computing power of the mining pool’s external formula, and need to judge whether it is oversold through multiple comparisons. If it is oversold, the user’s income will be greatly reduced.
Then look at the packaging speed and cost performance. There are big differences among manufacturers in the calculation of packaging speed. There are two calculation methods, one is similar to space-time cloud, and the packaging speed of 192T whole machine is 96G/h, but this is not the packaging speed that can be obtained by a single T; therefore, In this list, Odaily uniformly adopts the calculation scheme of the full storage time to roll out the packaging speed. The calculation formula is:
Package speed=1024GB/full storage time/30d/24h
In the end, it can be seen that Xi'an Lingdong has recorded higher packaging speed and cost performance because of its shorter full storage time.
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5 major manufacturers cluster sales plan
In the last section, let’s look at the cluster solutions of the five major manufacturers. They are Pomegranate Mining Pool, Space-Time Cloud, Encryption Cloud, Binhe Yunzhi and Athena Mining Pool.
Not much to say about the processor and memory. to seehard disk, the Athena mining pool cluster is relatively large, the price starts at 3 million yuan, and the others are mostly in the early million yuan.
For the convenience of readers,Odaily multiplies the four parameters (hard disk, packaging speed, selling price, and operation and maintenance costs) of the three programs of pomegranate mine pool, space-time cloud, and encryption cloud by coefficients of 10, 2, 3, and 15, so that the five major manufacturers The price of the plan is on the same level (3 million yuan), as shown in the figure below。
It can be seen from the figure that fromhard diskIt can be seen that the higher configuration can reach 5000TB, and the configuration of other manufacturers is between 1800-3600TB.
package speedThe high one can reach 2000+G/h, and the low one is only 1000 G/h; in terms of cost performance, there is also a big difference between various manufacturers, and Binhe Yunzhi takes the lead in these data as a whole.
Operation and maintenance costs and revenue commissionIn terms of information, the Athena mining pool combines the two into one and only charges a 20% profit commission; the other four charge an operation and maintenance fee ranging from 70,000 to 220,000/set/year, with a 15%-20% profit commission.
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The vendors participating in this list have proved themselves to a certain extent in terms of transparency and technical strength, but Odaily still finds that the data of different solutions are quite different.
Before the product is officially delivered and running stably, it is difficult for us to judge whether each is right or wrong. Those with low parameters are not necessarily backward, and those with high parameters are not necessarily exaggerated. In this new gold rush movement that lacks standards and verification, investors must first do The most important thing is to fully understand the risks involved, and be prepared to fall into the trap and have no hope of getting back the money; after that, if you still want to participate, you must fully research, not just read the official introduction and media interpretation.
The development of Filecoin is inseparable from the joint construction of manufacturers and investors. For its long-term development, the real builders do not want funds to flow to "worms". Therefore, Odaily will work together with various manufacturers and investors to resist unreliable mining machines and promote the positive development of the industry.
