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From 9:00 to 10:00 am Beijing time on September 3, the Filecoin official team launched an online AMA event for the global community, mainly focusing on discussions on space. The following is a selection of the AMA content: Q1: How to manage the concurrency of miners? How to adjust the scheduler? A: The scheduler is designed to automatically manage the concurrency of miners. To see how it works, you can watch the video replay of the recent workshop. We know it's not perfect yet! If you notice any issues, especially deadlocks, resource shortages, or worker idling, please submit an issue using the sealed issue template. Q2: I am new to Filecoin and Web3, but I know it is the trend of the future. What can I do to ensure that I can get the most out of the APOLLO program? A: The best way to get the most out of the APOLLO program is to make sure you attend all the sessions (or watch them online if you can't make it to the live sessions) and complete the relevant readings and tutorials. This is a great opportunity to build relationships with others and the team. Project APOLLO is a 6-week program designed for entrepreneurs, builders, and makers interested in the Filecoin ecosystem to continue their work or start new projects using the Filecoin and Web3 ecosystem. Q3: I want to be an active community member on Slack and get rewards. I spend at least 2 hours on Slack every day on average. Can I get rewards? A: It’s been awesome to see so much support for each other on Slack! We’re looking into the best ways to recognize and reward our most active and helpful community members – stay tuned! Q4: How do we solve the issue of transaction orders being determined? Since Lotus was upgraded to version 0.5.6, most miners have this problem. A: A recent dashboard upgrade added the ability to view pending transactions. Previously, it only showed completed transactions, which made troubleshooting for miners a bit difficult. If you see storage trades that remain "pending" for a long time on the dashboard, but they show up as "proven" in your system, this is a bug with the order robot (not Lotus), not your problem. We are aware of this and are working on a fix. Q5: Why do I lose computing power every day, and only the to-do items are shown in the log? A: This is usually caused by a PoSt submission failure. There are many reasons for this - your hardware may be too slow due to custom configuration or tied up with other tasks. If you do not see any logs in your miner indicating that you cannot generate or submit the article, please file an issue on GitHub including your Lotus version and miner ID. Q6: I would like to know the officially recommended, minimum specifications of the mining machine suitable for beginners, thank you. Is a GPU required? A: GPU is a must-have device for storage mining (obtaining block rewards) , you can find our hardware recommendations here.Q7: When is the last day to sign up for the Space Race? A: For miners who have already started mining, node registration will end at 6:00 am on September 1st, Beijing time. For miners who have not been on the chain before or do not have other miner nodes participating in the competition, the node registration time will be open until 6:00 Beijing time on September 11th. Q8: My scheduler is not assigning work to some of my nodes! When I do a Lotus-Miner sector commit, it appears briefly but then disappears. What should I do? A: Thank you for your concern, we are actively investigating this issue, please follow up for updates. Q9: When will the code be frozen? A: We consider the Lotus code to be feature frozen and close to mainnet. At this point, we are completely focused on fixing bugs, improving performance, and improving user experience and documentation. The rate of these changes should decrease over the next few weeks as we get closer to mainnet launch! Q10: I have my first error sector, what is the penalty for error sectors and how do we fix them? A: A faulty sector itself does not require a penalty, unless you lose mining power on it until the sector is recovered (and therefore cannot win sector-based block rewards). You don't have to do anything manually to recover problematic sectors - as long as you have the sector data and your miner is running you should recover the sectors automatically. Q11: I saw in Slack that someone mentioned that storage transactions favor 1475? A: No, the dealbots pick randomly from all miners. For storage deals, the bots pick from all miners that have at least one closed region. For retrieval deals, the bots pick from all miners that have at least one successful storage deal; if you want more details, you can check out the dealbot code. Remember, the Space Race rewards are based on the success rate of transactions, not the volume of transactions. Q12: Chinese miners are facing crazy DDOS attacks, while miners scattered around the world are reaping the benefits. Is this fair? A: DDoS mitigation is specific to your personal setup, but the same strategies available in cloud infrastructure (such as rate limiting per IP or prioritizing certain IPs) apply equally to Filecoin mining. Launching a DDoS attack on a network as large as Filecoin would be prohibitively expensive given how decentralized the network is. If you set up a firewall to limit traffic, or even block an IP if it shows abusive patterns, you should be able to overcome most common DDoS potential attacks. It will be well worth your time to figure this out, as you will need to stay connected in the mainnet as well. Q13: Is the upper limit of each partition 2349 sectors? What is the correlation between the number of storage disks and the number of partitions? I think they match. A: For the 64GiB protocol, the upper limit of a partition is 2349 sectors, and the number varies according to the sector size. Q14: What is the total amount of rewards for the Space Race? Why does it keep changing? A: The total prize pool for the Space Race has increased from 4 million FIL to 4.5 million FIL today. The reason for the increase in rewards is that the participation in the Space Race has far exceeded our imagination, and we hope to give miners a bigger goal! Please note that these are total possible rewards; as miners add storage to the network they will unlock higher reward targets. Q15: Can you give us a detailed explanation of EIP 1559 about Filecoin? A: EIP1559 introduces the concept of network fees and a dynamic fee adjustment mechanism for spam protection. Gas is a measure of how much storage or computing resources are consumed by on-chain messages. Therefore, GasUsage*BaseFee is burned to compensate the network. In addition, the message sender also specifies a Gas surcharge, which is the fee for miners to package messages first, and has nothing to do with Gas usage (this is the difference between Filecoin and EIP1559). Therefore, the profit that miners get from packaging information has not changed, and incentives should become easier. Q16: When did the Space Race officially end? A: The Space Race will begin at UTC Ends at 21:59 on Monday, September 14. We will take snapshots of the rankings multiple times a day, so if the network gets too excited at the end, don't worry - we will still have enough information available to calculate rewards correctly. Q17: If a node is abandoned and submits windowpost indefinitely, will this node continue to extract FIL from the miner's wallet? A: No, if you shut down a miner, it will never extract FIL from the owner or miner address. However, you will slash your collateral for all sectors. Because we confiscate your entire trading collateral, you should probably never do this! Q18: We have registered, but it does not show the miner ID. Then we try again and it says "Miner ID has been registered", what is the reason and what should we do next? A : Please raise and forward this question in Space Race with your miner id so we can investigate. Q19: Does the sector go from Removing to Removed? How long does it take? A: Yes, a sector being removed will automatically go into the associated address, SectorRemoved (or SectorRemoveFaile d), it should happen pretty quickly. |
