After several bounced tickets, at 6 am on August 25 (yesterday), the Filecoin Incentive Testnet (also known as the Space Race) with a reward of up to 4.1 million FIL was launched.

This incentive test is the last test before the mainnet launch. It is not only a stress test before the mainnet launch, but also a simulation of the mainnet launch environment. Beware of various bugs that appear after the mainnet launch and cause economic losses to miners .

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Interpretation of the rules of the space race

• 4.1 million pieces

1. The top 100 miners in the world will share 1 million FIL rewards according to their effective computing power, and the top 50 miners in 6 continents will share 500,000 FIL rewards in each region, with a total of 4 million FIL rewards;

2. The top 20 largest block reward winners will also be allocated an additional 100,000 FIL rewards in proportion to the block rewards they have obtained.

Interpretation: Obviously, the competition in this space race is the size of the effective computing power, not the amount of FIL dug up. This is very different from the logic of mainnet mining.

Another point is that this reward will only be for the top miners in front (the top 100 in the world and the top 50 in each continent), so the enthusiasm of small miners to participate is not very high, they will only do a test, and will not run hard to save energy , but large miners will try their best to accumulate effective computing power. So far, the growth rate of effective computing power has exceeded the fastest effective computing power growth rate during the second test period.

• Rewards unlocked level by level

3. The size of the rewarded fund pool is continuously unlocked as the total storage capacity of the network increases. Rewards are allocated strictly according to the ratio of the storage capacity of the miners to the total storage capacity of the network.

Interpretation: The official specific amount of this reward is not 4.1 million, but gradually unlocked to 4.1 million rewards as the computing power of the entire network increases. Whether the 4.1 million rewards can be unlocked in the end depends on the total value of the final effective computing power.

• Linear Release Reward Rule

4. The reward competition will start on August 25 for a period of three weeks, and the test rewards will be released linearly within 6 months after the launch of the main network;

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The Space Race Is Officially On

At 6 a.m., the Space Race testnet officially opened.

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"101 Incident" - the first bug in the testnet was discovered

By 6:55, the official did not "release pigeons" this time, but the block height of the test network was stuck at 101, and blocks have not been produced since then.

Soon, why, the core developer of Filecoin, said in the slack community that the first bug had been discovered, which was triggered by the message filter, which made the network unable to continue to generate blocks, but the official emergency repair, 10 minutes later, around 7.30, The testnet returned to normal and continued to produce blocks.

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1475 node restart

Initially, in this major space race, Tianru Technology did not grab the node number T01475.

Since Tianru Technology used the node number of t01475 during the previous test period, it is well known to everyone. Juan, the founder of Filecoin, also offered a reward in the slack community to find t01475 miners, which made 1475 famous. After that, Tianru Tech's Filecoin mining machine brand has also been changed to 1475.

But in this major space race, Tianru Technology did not grab the node number t01475, so Tianru Technology originally planned to use other node numbers to run this reward test, but just before the first "101" During the BUG repair period, the miners who grabbed 1475 took the initiative to contact Tianru Technology and expressed their willingness to give the right to use the node number of T01475.

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Fastest package completion - unofficial node qualifying

By 9:55, according to the filfox browser, the joint node leader & Lianpai Technology (t01101) became the first unofficial node to complete the package, obtaining 32GB of effective computing power.

Soon, the second and third mining machine nodes came out, and the nodes were marked with "Lianpai Technology", t01102 and t01013, but the effective computing power stayed at "32G" and did not continue to increase. Obviously this is not luck , This is more like a "show" for all miners and mining machine investors participating in Filecoin mining, proving that they can run fast.

However, this kind of packaging speed proves that it has been played badly by major miners as early as the first test/second test stage. For example, during the second test period of the Force Zone, the technical advantages were used to produce blocks at a high speed, and the packaging was completed in the first time during the 1475 first test period, etc. , but it was rumored in the technical circles at the time that this space race attracted a lot of attention from investors, so Lianpai Technology did indeed attract attention.

However, now that the main network is about to go online, and the last incentive test network, big miners pay more attention to stability, security, and long-term effective computing power growth, not just a "burst" to qualify.

So this three-week reward test network, big miners are carefully building their own customized software, testing before going online, etc. Lianpai Technology directly uses the official software to build a supercomputer and quickly go online, showing off its skills.

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First long-distance runner to qualify - under attack

One hour later, Diancun Technology (t01155) became the first cluster node to complete packaging, with an effective computing power of 5TB.

By 11:28, Diancun Technology t01155 successfully produced a block, becoming the first unofficial node to produce a block.

After qualifying, according to Diancun Technology, its exposed IP address was attacked by a large number of DDOS in a short period of time, and the attack bandwidth reached 21Gbps.

Not only that, Space-Time Cloud & Lingdong also claimed to have suffered a large number of malicious and illegal attacks, and revealed the attacker's IP, claiming that it was not a DDOS attack method, but that it blocked nodes by sending a large number of messages, consuming a lot of computing power of Lotus nodes, making nodes unable to Completing tasks normally eventually led to the problem that computing power began to decline.

This matter reflects the importance of operation and maintenance from the side, and security protection is very important. If the security protection is not in place, it will be caught off guard if it is attacked. There is no response plan, and major problems are prone to occur.

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1475 & First of its kind

At 4:00 p.m., 1475 qualified, and the effective computing power of the cluster nodes reached 3.13T. However, there are already quite a few players on the list at this time, and the ranking of such effective computing power can only be 35.

Subsequently, 1475 quickly climbed the rankings with its extremely high effective computing power growth rate. By 7 pm, the effective computing power had climbed to the eighth place in the entire network, and the real-time effective computing power growth rate reached the first place.

If this space race is compared to running, 1475 at this time is catching up with the previous opponents one by one at an extremely fast speed. When it is about to surpass the first space-time cloud, a node t01248 appears at this time. Appear in a large block and crush all miner nodes at a faster speed.

This situation has been maintained until noon on the 26th, t01248 and 1475 ranked first and second with an effective computing power of more than 700 T, far away from other opponents.

At 3:30 pm on the 26th, Xianhe came out to claim node t01248, but at this time the effective computing power growth rate of 1475 continued to accelerate, and the distance between the effective computing power of the first-ranked miner node began to shrink.

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Overseas Continental Node Competition

The testnet reward rule this time is that the top 100 miners in the world will share 1 million FIL rewards according to their effective computing power, and the top 50 miners on 6 continents will share 500,000 FIL rewards in each region according to their effective computing power. A total of 4 million rewards;

The other 100,000 pieces are additional rewards for the top 20 mining machine nodes with effective computing power in the entire network.

Therefore, it is also a very cost-effective business to deploy nodes in some continents with few mining machine nodes. Yes, you are not the only one who thinks so, and now the official 6 continents have mining machine nodes.

At present, the official way to determine where a mining machine is is actually through the IP address, but this is actually easy to forge. Later, the official determines the location of the mining machine through the location where the mining machine completes the copy proof, but this can still be obtained through technology. Means to achieve, do not need all the mining machines in the past.

Summarize

1. The space race lasts for three weeks, and the final rewards are determined by many factors, including the total effective computing power of the entire network (representing the upper limit of rewards for the entire network), and the proportion of effective computing power of mining machine nodes, which is not the first place There will be fixed rewards, so it is impossible to predict how much FIL you can get in this competition until the end.

2. The ranking of the mining machine manufacturer you invest in does not necessarily mean that investors can get more FIL, because you don’t know how many investors there are in the mining machine node or how much investment amount to divide, the average is every 10,000 yuan Investors should pay attention to how much FIL rewards can be allocated in this reward.

Again, always pay attention to the ratio of input to output, and talk about output without input is to play hooligans.

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As of press time, space race rankings, source: Filfox