Filecoin Interpretation | Please give it enough time and patience

Back in the days of dial-up Internet, it took two hours to successfully transmit text or a picture through the Internet. Theoretically, if we can transmit text and pictures, we can also transmit videos.

But when will it be possible to transmit videos and movies through the Internet? What conditions are required to make it possible?

1. Increased bandwidth

The so-called bandwidth can be used to identify the data transmission capacity of signal transmission, the amount of data passing through the link per unit time, and the display capacity of the display. In digital signal systems, bandwidth is used to identify the ability of communication lines to transmit data, that is, the highest data rate passing through a certain point in the network per unit time. The commonly used unit is bps (also known as bit rate---bit per second, how many bits per second). In daily life, bps is often omitted when describing bandwidth. For example: the bandwidth is 4M, the full name should be 4Mbps.

As bandwidth increases, user access rates are also getting higher and higher, from the initial dial-up Internet access to 20M or even 100M fiber optic.

2. Increased storage space

The performance of storage space hardware has increased. As early as 2000, the storage capacity of computer hard disk space was about 500M; but now the hard disk space of computers ranges from hundreds to thousands of GB; the improvement of hard disk storage space hardware is driving the development of related data storage.

3. Improved quality of content delivered

The sources of content transmitted during the dial-up Internet era were basically analog signals, not the digital content commonly used today, which added certain difficulties to the transmission of data at the time. It was not until the popularization of digitization that the sources of film and television signals developed to a certain extent, and the use of new digital tools for recording and playback added a certain stability to the transmission.

4. Popularization of mobile Internet

China has a large population and a huge income gap between the rich and the poor. When mobile Internet began to become popular, most Chinese netizens did not have enough money to buy Internet access equipment; of course, they did not have enough money to go online.

However, as the general price of smartphones dropped, most consumer groups in third-, fourth-, fifth- and sixth-tier small and medium-sized cities were able to afford the cost-effectiveness of smartphones. This also enabled the corresponding urban residents to have the opportunity to access the Internet through low-end smartphones, instantly increasing the popularity of mobile Internet.

That is to say, theoretically speaking, IPFS, a distributed storage, will definitely be more private and less vulnerable to attacks than centralized storage in the long run.

1. Technology needs to be guaranteed

Filecoin is a distributed network designed to store the most important information of human society. It is a decentralized storage network that transforms cloud storage into an algorithmic market.

Since the birth of blockchain technology, consensus mechanism has become the core problem that blockchain needs to solve. It is different from the traditional proof-of-work mechanism POW, in which a large amount of computing power can only be used to maintain network security and cannot generate other contributions to the network.

We all know that IPFS decentralized storage is more private and less vulnerable to cyber attacks. When will it be realized to protect user privacy and personal privacy information? It requires certain technology as a basis. However, no one can do it in terms of technology and software at present; or it can be said that it has always been ideal but not really realized, and the same is true for Filecoin.

2. Market environment

China has a large population and a large number of Internet users, but the Chinese people have not developed a common legal concept and a habit of protecting personal privacy. Personal privacy leaks happen frequently in daily life: leaving personal information to participate in a lottery; using personal information to exchange for product discounts; exchanging personal information for free gifts, etc.

The bottom line is that China's market environment and legal environment are not very perfect. Of course, IPFS also needs to integrate encryption information into the technology to meet the actual situation of the Chinese market.

3. Popularity

IPFS is a technology that makes full use of spare or idle storage space. However, current market research shows that Filecoin mining machines are generally expensive, which reduces their popularity and almost turns them into a game for capitalists. In other words, it becomes a game for high-end people. It loses the original idea of ​​benefiting the general public, or in other words, loses most of the consumer groups.

This means that it is difficult to compete with existing clouds and cloud servers in terms of order of magnitude; the clouds, cloud servers, and public clouds in the current market can reach a certain order of magnitude; and IPFS still has a certain gap from them, that is, in terms of an order of magnitude, it is still possible to catch up, but it is actually unattainable at present.

As Marxist philosophy says, the development direction of new things is bright, but the road is tortuous.

Why do good things take so long?

Because good things represent value, and value means difficulty.

Should we spend more time on valuable and difficult things?

There is no doubt that IPFS and Filecoin are doing valuable things.

The only thing we need to give them is: patience and time!

Friends, are you interested in waiting together?

The reason for doing this is just to build up momentum.