At 9:00 a.m. Beijing time on September 17, Filecoin officially launched the third community AMA event, mainly responding to questions related to the Filecoin Space Race. The following is the full transcript of this AMA:
Q1: When will Space Race 2 start? A: Space Race 2 has already begun. Q2: When will we get the results of Space Race 1 rewards? A: We are calculating the final results, which are expected to be announced this Friday; if the results are not announced this Friday, they will be announced early next week. Q3: Is real data ( or verification data ) sealed in SR2? A: SR2 will store client data as track2:Slingshot, which will be released in detail in the coming days. This is optional for miners but can help us guide the demand side of the market. Q4: Which version of Lotus will be used in SR2? A: With Lotus v0.7.0, there will be optional releases during this process and possibly one or more network upgrades. Q5: I have rented a portion of machines to run SR1, and my machine will be returned and I want to buy a new one. How can I transfer my data to the new machine? A: We encourage miners to take the time to adjust their settings as needed in Space Race 2. This should be completed within the next 24 hours, and below is our recommended workflow for safely migrating sectors. Q6: How can we get a miner to sign up for the space race? Can new miners participate without registering? A: Space Race 2 does not require registration. Q7: Besides starting a new miner or account, what is the use of faucets in SR2? A: The faucet can also be used to test Filecoin storage clients and transfer workflows. If you are building an application that uses Filecoin storage retrieval, or a wallet, for example, the faucet is there. Q8: Can you tell us more about v0.8? What is the purpose? What type of metrics will it be used for? What should we consider? A: Lotus v0.8 adds the ability to upgrade miner role implementations in Lotus - this will help the network respond quickly when any issues arise and properly respond to new improvement suggestions from the community. We expect Lotus and the Filecoin network to continue to improve over time, and want to validate and test our ability to iterate quickly. Q9: Of the sectors completed by miners in the Space Race, what percentage can be converted to sectors for the mainnet? A: The network benefits from as much storage as possible, so ideally we'd like to keep all of it. It would be great if we could keep 100%. However, there is an important principle to remember: we must keep the initial mainnet decentralized. Currently, hashrate distribution is good, but it could get worse in the next two weeks (a miner's power supply increases significantly, or many miners lose a lot of sectors, 14 days of failure/termination ) . Q10: What are the test objectives in SR2? A: SR2 is primarily about testing the network's continued ability to operate efficiently and securely, store data at scale, and perform upgrades. In addition, it seeks to test storage client workflows at a larger scale. Right now, we are in the preparation phase, and miners' goals in SR2 should be to maintain or increase their storage and perform any necessary maintenance. We will announce specific goals and incentives for the remainder of SR2 soon. Q11: If during SR2, the miner finds a bug that requires regenerating instructions, where should we post it? SR, mining, Lotus, or who should we contact to post a github issue? A: For bug reports, you are most welcome to raise any issue in Github, or you can post your questions/bugs in #space-race, #file-lotus, #file-help. Q12: Can I use a cloud host to participate in SR2? A: We strongly recommend that you use the same setup that you intend to use on mainnet. You can use a cloud server, but we recommend against it. Q13: After SR2 ends, will miners have time to adjust their hardware and architecture before the mainnet goes live? If so, how long? A: We encourage miners to take the time to adjust their setups as needed during Space Race 2. We are working on adding more documentation on how miners move data between setups so that they can use this time to prepare their hardware and architecture for mainnet launch. Q14: Will the new PC1 continue to use the CPU single-threaded process, or will it use the GPU or multi-threaded process? A: It will keep the CPU single threaded. Q15: How to solve the problem of message packaging in the space race? A: Ultimately, message packaging is a resource allocation problem. Miners who produce blocks may prioritize their own messages, but this does not mean that they have no motivation to package other miners' messages, or that these block-producing miners can package their own messages for free; it's just that when a batch-producing miner produces a block, they can pay themselves a gas premium close to zero, but other miners' premiums may be higher. If other miners' information is not included, it will also bring profits because other miners will get a gas premium. Q16: Will WindowPoSt be repaired when it fails? A: We are actively working to make Lotus better at calculating and submitting WindowPoSt messages. This also includes minimizing the damage when errors occur, we don't want a bad sector to cause the entire partition to be cut. These improvements are in progress, and the research team is also working to make WindowPoSt more tolerant of honest operational risks without sacrificing too much security and service quality. Q17: Has the official economic model been established now? A: Most of the mainnet parameter recommendations have been implemented in the codebase. The research team is working on making error penalties more tolerant to real-world operational failures, especially failure windows, and closing some other scatter points. It is important to note that it is expected that the economic structure and parameters will evolve and emerge over time after the network goes live. Q18: How can new miners participate in Space Race 2? A: This is especially important if you are joining as a new miner. For an outline of the program structure, see the blog post; to learn how to mine, visit docs.filecoin.io. Q19: Where does the real data of Space Race 2 come from? Do miners need to find it themselves? A: The SR Slingshot will be released later this week. Clients, miners, or application developers can all find or contribute useful data. Q20: When will the reward details of SR2 be finalized? A: We are working hard to finalize the reward structure for SR2 and will announce it soon. Q21: SR2 and SR1 are independent, but you said that the storage data of SR1 can be directly moved to SR2, which means that participants in SR1 can get rewards from SR2? A: Yes, SR1 is complete. SR2 is about maintaining or growing storage and testing real data flows. The network continues from SR1 and all storage can be maintained. Part of the reason SR2 exists is that we want to preserve and use the amazing storage built into SR1. Without the storage, we probably wouldn't have SR2. Q22: After SR2 is over, do you need to package all sectors in the competition into the mainnet, or only keep a part of them? A: The main reward of SR2 is that miners who maintain storage during this period can convert the part that was sealed during the space race to the main network. Therefore, we recommend that you maintain and continue to prove the transition of all sectors that want to qualify. This answers the questions many miners have about how they can afford collateral in the early days of the network while continuing to reward the staggering amount of data on the network during the space race. |
