On July 15, a piece of bad news spread all over the Internet. The official said that the 5PB large miner test originally scheduled to start on July 20 was postponed to August 3. As for the main network launch, the window period was postponed again to August 31-September 21.

Is the extension of the 5PB big miner test a good thing? To interpret the significance of the official extension, we must interpret it at several levels.

Both the 5PB large miner test and the mainnet launch will be postponed for two weeks. What will happen in these two weeks?

During these two weeks, the government added a two-week calibration period, which happened to be from July 20 to August 2. During these two weeks, the system was better evaluated and economic parameters were updated.

The two-week calibration period will allow miners to practice under real competition conditions and see competition results. This will be done on a new devnet with the latest features and optimizations.

Only Filecoin has been so cautious and tested time and again. In fact, the clues can be seen from the beginning of Filecoin. Slow progress, continuous updates, three years of sharpening the sword, and it is unsheathed in one day.

Every application that changes people's lives requires long-term research and polishing; this is the case with IPFS distributed storage. In contrast, Alibaba Cloud, the epitome of centralized storage, has also experienced countless hardships.

Wang Jian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who was called a "swindler" by Alibaba employees for four years, wasted 1 billion yuan of the company's money, was ostracized by the company's top management, and even his own team members were ridiculed. Most of them chose to leave. Such suffering is too much for Alibaba Cloud and Wang Jian to experience.

But now, Wang Jian has become an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences because of his special contribution to Alibaba Cloud; Alibaba has generated 450 billion yuan in revenue because of Alibaba Cloud; and 12306 Railway has realized online ticket purchase because of Alibaba Cloud.

The same is true for Filecoin. It is the incentive layer for decentralized storage and the choice of the future. It is worth waiting for after a long period of research. The only thing it fears is making mistakes, so it must be cautious at every step and strive to win at every step.

Although on July 11, Filecoin's official core developer Why had already revealed: "Recently, we have received a lot of information from miners, saying that they hope to have more time to prepare before the start of the test network. In view of this, the team is considering postponing the launch of the test network by 1 to 2 weeks."

But in fact, this is the inevitable preparation time for the 5PB large miner test. Since this test is a global test, if you want to get higher returns, you must deploy globally. However, due to the global epidemic, there is a shortage of equipment and talent, and most miners are not fully prepared for the global situation.

Especially in South America, Africa, and Oceania, there are fewer nodes, less competitive pressure, and even it is extremely difficult to activate regional rewards, so it takes more time to prepare. The same mechanism of global regional rewards also contributed to this postponement.

Secondly, after this extension, the official specially took out 100,000 FIL coins as an additional reward, so for large miners, it will help to increase their enthusiasm.

We ranked first in the second test, but we did not choose to continue testing after the second test was restarted because we were fully preparing for the large miner test.

1475 is determined to win this large miner test. On the one hand, it will be a practical exercise of its own capabilities, and more importantly, it will assist the official in stress testing the chain.

During this period, 1475 has a large number of AMD chips in stock, and has also optimized the unique algorithm to its best at this stage! As the initiator of the "input-output ratio", it has always been based on technology and investors' profits. If you are still hesitant, this big miner test is definitely the best reference before the main network.