Force Intelligence Agency | Fork turmoil, the inevitable path for every successful blockchain project

Recently, more and more media interviews about Filecoin have involved issues related to forks. The main reason is that the Filecoin economic model released by Protocol Labs has brought certain pressure to miners who participated in Filecoin mining in the early stage in terms of mining income, pre-staking/post-staking, and penalty mechanisms, causing dissatisfaction among some community members.

So, can forks perfectly solve all problems? Looking back at the past and looking at the present, perhaps the battle for Bitcoin’s expansion can give us some answers.

Whether it is Bitcoin, Ethereum or Filecoin, the code itself is open source, and any capable development team can "stand on the shoulders of giants" to innovate and optimize to develop a blockchain network that is more suitable for commercial applications. Just as if there are multiple competitors in a certain industry, it is conducive to promoting the rapid development of this industry to a certain extent.

However, as the leading project in the field of distributed storage, Filecoin currently has the strongest community consensus, and it is difficult for other forked projects to surpass it in terms of ecological layout and market value.

The screenshot is from a document published on Github by a Filecoin fork project, which aims to make a series of adjustments to Filecoin's economic model through forks, thereby alleviating the pressure on miners to a certain extent and gaining more benefits. Its starting point is understandable, and some top miners have also revealed their thoughts in this regard in media interviews. It is foreseeable that many fork projects will appear after the launch of the Filecoin mainnet.

But no matter what, we still have to resist those forks that are purely for profit . If some concepts are fabricated just to make money and do not bring substantial contributions to the distributed storage industry, then the fork will be a harm to the promotion of Filecoin and the entire distributed storage industry.

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