Filecoin team real-time AMA 18 questions - Sky race FIL total rewards increased to 4.5 million

https://docs.filecoin.io/mine/spacerace/#how-do-i-participate

We will take a snapshot of the rankings every day, so if the network gets too excited at the end, don't worry - we will still have plenty of information to calculate rewards correctly.

Q: 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 specifies GasPremium, which is the priority fee for miners to include the message, regardless of gas usage (this is what differentiates Filecoin from EIP1559). Therefore, the profit miners get from message inclusion has not changed, and it should be easier to reason about incentives.

Q: The total possible incentive 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 has far exceeded our imagination, and we want 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.

Q: Partitions with 64 GiB transactions are capped at 2349 sectors , and this number varies based on sector size. You can find them and some explanations here:

https://github.com/filecoin-project/rust-fil-proofs/blob/master/filecoin-proofs/src/constants.rs#L92-L101

Q: DDoS attack protection is very specific to your personal setup, but the same policies available in cloud infrastructure (e.g., rate limiting per IP or prioritizing certain IPs) apply equally to Filecoin mining.

DDoS attacks on a network as large as Filecoin would be very expensive given that the network is so decentralized. If you set up your firewall to limit traffic , or even block IPs when they show abusive patterns , you should be able to overcome most common potential DDoS attacks. It’s well worth taking the time to figure this out, as you’ll need to maintain connectivity on the mainnet as well.

Q: No, the trading bot will randomly select from all miners. For storage transactions, the bot will select from all miners who have completed at least one packaged sector. For retrieval transactions, the bot will select from all miners who have completed at least one successful storage transaction. You can learn more details from the trading bot code:

https://github.com/Digital-MOB-Filecoin/QABot Please note that the competition rewards transaction success rate, not transaction volume.

Q: A sector failure fee (collected from 2.14 days of block rewards) is charged for each day that a sector is in a failed state. This failure fee is set so that once storage reliability exceeds a reasonable threshold, the risk of this loss decreases rapidly. Miners are advised to monitor and report failures as quickly as possible (currently automatic in Lotus, but it is recommended that miners have their own monitoring and reporting toolchain).

If the chain detects that a sector is faulty, the miner will be fined a sector fault detection fee for that sector. Miners are incentivized to recover from the fault as quickly as possible and announce the recovery when the sector is fixed.

Q: We consider the Lotus code to be feature frozen and close to mainnet-ready. At this point, we are fully focused on fixing bugs, improving performance, and improving UX and documentation. The rate of these changes will drop over the next few weeks as the mainnet launches!

Q: Thanks for your inquiry! We are actively investigating this issue, please follow the instructions below for updates:

https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/issues/3500

Q: Standard registration (for miners who are already mining) closes at 22:00 UTC on Monday, August 31st . Late registration (for new miners who have not been seen on the chain before and have no other miners in the competition) is open until 22:00 UTC, Thursday, September 10th.

Q: You can find our hardware recommendations here:

https://docs.filecoin.io/mine/#hardware-recommendations

You can also find community generated benchmark results here: https://github.com/filecoin-project/benchmarks

A GPU is required for storage mining (winning block rewards)

Q: Usually, this is caused by a failure to submit a PoSt. There could be many reasons for this – your hardware could be too slow due to custom configuration or it could be tied up with other tasks.

If you can't find any logs in your miner indicating that it is unable to generate or submit PoSts, please file an issue on GitHub including your Lotus version and miner ID.

Q: A recent dashboard upgrade added the ability to view pending transactions – previously it only showed completed transactions, which made troubleshooting more difficult for miners.

If you find that your storage transaction is stuck in "Pending" on the dashboard for a long time, but it shows as "Verifying" on your side, this is a bug with the trading bot (not Lotus), not your fault. We are aware of this and are working on a fix.

Q: It’s so heartening to see so much support for each other on Slack! We’re considering the best ways to recognize and reward our most active and helpful community members — stay tuned!

Q: Getting the most out of the APOLLO program

The best way to get started is to make sure you attend all the sessions (or attend virtually if you can’t) and do the relevant reading and tutorials. This is an incredible opportunity to build relationships with other people and teams working on Filecoin!

For those unfamiliar, APOLLO is a six-week program designed for entrepreneurs, builders, and makers interested in the Filecoin ecosystem to continue working or launch new projects using the Filecoin and Web3 ecosystem.

Q: Thanks for your question! The scheduler is designed to automatically manage concurrency across workers. For a detailed explanation of how it works, consider watching the following recent webinar:

https://youtu.be/rwz8XIs6miE

We know it's not perfect yet! If you find any issues, especially deadlocks, resource starvation, or miner idling, please submit an issue using the "Sealed Issue" template:

https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/issues/new/choose

We also invite suggestions on how to improve the scheduler! Please share your suggestions here:

https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/issues/3498