Many people may have heard of this project for the first time.
Several mining projects related to hard drives
At present, hard disk-related mining is divided into three types
The first is hard disk projects like chia. The more well-known projects of this type are btchd, mass, brust, etc. The second category is mining projects like filecoin. Of course, filecoin is mainly used here, and other similar projects are forked. The third is to focus on traffic cdn mining. The more well-known projects here include Thunderplay Cloud and NKN.
Let's first talk about projects such as filecoin. The technical application is still based on ipfs. The miners who mine basically use the data center to mine. Mining machines are high-end servers. The worst hard disks used are SSDs, and they have high requirements on memory and cpu. Ordinary users cannot participate in filecoin mining, so the only way to participate is to buy these data center cloud computing power. After understanding this, everyone also knows why when Filecoin was launched, the major platforms were frantically promoting the filecoin cloud computing power. The reason itself is that the operators of these data centers have too high investment costs, so they need to reduce costs, recover some of the funds, otherwise it really won’t work.
Furthermore, let's talk about projects like nkn. They mainly do cdn services. We will not discuss its legality here. Originally, their main technical reserves were downloading and network data transmission acceleration. Therefore, the main business of CDN is the model that everyone is a server, that is, to contribute resources stored in their local hard disks to accelerate downloads for network users, such as applications. For online video sites, there are specific practical uses. You can use the Raspberry Pi to mine on-hook. Of course, ordinary people can also participate in this mining mode. The requirements for hard disks are basically SSDs, but more of them The internet speed is still required to be faster. The main reason is the need to upload local content, which is also a bit like downloading and sharing on the bittorrent network.
Of course, there are also some cloud storage projects, such as storj, etc., which are mainly between the two. The general idea is the same, mainly because of the different priorities. This kind of cloud storage blockchain project is mainly to create Centralized storage business is somewhat different from ipfs. The difference from projects like nkn is that it does not pay much attention to the network's big data traffic application requirements, but focuses more on distributed storage.
The third is a hard disk mining mode like brust. This kind of mining does not require a good hard disk, and the hard disk does not have much practical use. It is the same as Bitcoin mining for hashing, such as brust. Hard disk mining is more about the hard disk content as an algorithm to generate data. This type of data is essentially to protect the network. Of course, the same is true for chia hard disk mining. There is not much demand for the speed of the hard disk, but a p disk step is needed to generate p disk files. This method is similar to Ethereum mining. The function of the DAG file during mining is just that the process of the p disk is very slow, so it takes a lot of time. After the p disk, the p disk file can be transferred to the ordinary hard disk, where the number and size of the p disk file are equivalent to the ordinary hard disk. The computing power of mining, the larger the files on your p disk, the more coins you can mine naturally, but it should be noted that each file on the p disk is different, so copying and pasting the files on the p disk will not increase the computing power.
Chia mining is sought after by hard disk miners
Previously hard drive mining mass and brust were among the better known in the hard drive mining tracks, now after the arrival of chia, this situation is completely broken. From the perspective of computing power, the current difficulty of chia has reached more than 100P, and more people are actually stepping up the p-disk.
Downloading the wallet on the official website, you can find the plot and you can use the p disk. The official recommendation is to choose ssd as the cache disk. The mechanical hard disk is used as the storage disk of the final p disk file, but many miners also said that the p disk is particularly harmful to the ssd, so some people are still willing to choose the mechanical hard disk as the cache disk for the p disk.
The main reason why Chia is actually getting attention is that it has a better background. This project was created by Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent, and Chia also received a16z investment in 2018, so this also makes many people willing to participate.
