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From the perspective of timing, what will happen to Filecoin in the future?
With the rapid popularization of the Internet, we are entering an era in which various massive data must be effectively stored in order to drive the progress of the times.
So why the future will be the hegemony of distributed storage, let's take a brief look at "the situation of data centers and big data markets".
Today, the Internet exists around us all the time,About 2.5 million bytes (Byte) of data are created every day in the world.
According to the data, 90% of the data currently stored in the world were created in the past two years, which also explains why Filecoin has not officially launched the main network since its release in 2017: the time has not come.
Just like Xiaomi Lei always said"Standing on the tuyere, pigs can fly."
Looking back at history, how many people, events, and projects failed to succeed at the time because of the wrong timing, which aroused thousands of waves.
Tsui Hark's 2001 fairy tale film "Legend of Shushan" was dismal at the box office after it was released, with an investment of 90 million yuan, but the box office was less than 30 million. Today, decades later, it is regarded as a classic by the majority of netizens. It can only be described as "Heaven fails to fulfill people's wishes".
There were many works of Van Gogh during his lifetime, but no one cared about them, not because his paintings were shoddy, but because the artistic conception of his paintings went against the mainstream at that time. The timing was wrong. What his works brought him was not endless wealth and world fame, but a strange vision of the world and treatment like a madman, and he became a martyr of art.
The above are examples of people and things failing due to wrong timing, so what are the failure cases of the Internet technology industry that we are familiar with because of wrong timing and advanced ideas?
1. Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves is a search engine similar to Google and Microsoft. It was founded in 1997, one year before Google was founded in 1998. It uses many technologies that Google later used, such as semantic search and web page ranking based on hyperlinks. Google's cryptographic weapon.
Originally, it had the opportunity to become a great company like Google, but because of the immaturity and unacceptance of these technologies in that era, the establishment declined.
2. Dodgeball
Dodgeball belongs to the LBS social networking site. It failed for two reasons at the time: first, there was no Iphone; second, there was no Facebook. Not having an Iphone means that all information must be sent via SMS, which is very unfriendly. Not having Facebook means users don't understand why they need to constantly check for updates on their friends' whereabouts.
The Dodgeball founders went on to create Foursquare, which was a huge success.
3. GO Corporation
GO Corporation was one of the best-funded startups of the year, and its mobile operating system was also very good. GO Corporation is the pioneer of handheld computers, including the current touch-screen devices iPhone and iPad have its concept. It just came out too early.
4. WebTV
As the name suggests, WebTV means Internet TV, but the company named it after that at the time. WebTV was doing well financially and was later acquired by Microsoft, but their ambitious goal of connecting the Internet to TV failed. Is the reason too far-fetched, or do consumers not want the Internet connected to their TVs? There are two reasons. Look now, Internet TV has become a part of our life.
The above examples of Zhong Zhong failed at the time, but later there were similar successes. The reason for the failure at that time could not be attributed to itself, but more to do the right thing at the wrong time.
As long as one of the conditions for success is not met, the result will be failure.
On the other hand, Filecoin was released in 2017, when the digital currency was in full swing, and various digital currencies emerged in an endless stream. If you want to stand out from many projects, you can imagine the difficulty and risk.
At the same time, at that time, most users only cared about economic interests, that is, "everything is based on money". It is true that they could get a share of the pie when they went online at that time, but for the long-term development of the project itself, the disadvantages outweighed the advantages.
Up to now, with the emergence of new technologies such as the Internet of Things, 5G, and IoT,Accompanying it is the dependence and demand for a large amount of data transmission and storage. The traditional HTTP transmission protocol and traditional storage are no longer sufficient to support high-speed, large-volume, and low-cost data transmission and storage requirements.
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From the perspective of data market problems, what is the future of Filecoin?
To give a typical example, Toyota Motor President Akio Toyoda said in 2018: "We will completely transform Toyota from a car manufacturing company to a mobility service company."
Everyone in automobile manufacturing should know what it means, so what does "travel service" mean? What does it mean?
Didi Chuxing, which we use every day, is a travel service in professional terms. We all know that Didi does not produce cars, it is just a car mover, and it is a travel supply and demand matching service platform.Rely on a large amount of user data analysis and processing to provide services to users.
In order to ensure the effect of user services and the economic benefits of the enterprise, we must pay attention to the transmission and storage of data, so as to ensure the user experience of the platform, travel safety and traceability of accident responsibilities.
Toyota Motor Corporation has transformed into a travel service company and announced that it has formed a "Mobile Travel Alliance" with a number of companies including Didi, Amazon, Pizza Hut, Uber, and Mazda. Alliance members will cooperate in product planning, application, verification, etc. .
This will result in a dramatic increase in data usage,In the past two years, the data has increased significantly, It is also the result of the gradual Internetization of these traditional enterprises, which is also the best proof.
Furthermore, according to a research report on the world's data creation and online activity, titled "Data Never Sleeps 5.0 (Domo.com)," shows how we use search engines today to find answers to our questions, accumulating more and more data each time .
Although only a fraction of the data generated by a person's behavior like this,But vast amounts of information and data are created and processed every minute around the world.
According to relevant reports, last year, there were more than 3.5 million text messages every minute. In addition, about 15.2 million text messages have been sent this year, and a large amount of data has been accumulated, which is 334% of the previous year.
Google processes 3.6 million searches per minute and more than 40,000 searches per second (3.5 billion searches per day). It has been tweeted 456,000 times on Twitter and 4,146,600 videos a minute on YouTube.
These actions will generate data, and the "person behind the scenes" responsible for processing these data is the service provider. The data service provider processes the data of a user's operation on the Internet and manages the data at a certain cost.
Therefore, in the past two years, we have found that all kinds of video platforms, office platforms, music platforms, etc. need to subscribe or pay to use them. In the final analysis, the increase in operating costs of the platforms,Among the costs, data storage accounts for a large proportion of the cost.
According to the latest survey by Symantec, global enterprises store about 2.2ZB of data, and the cost of protecting data security and accessing services is about 1.1 trillion US dollars.
In the survey, called "The State of Information," Symantec surveyed a total of 4,056 information technology professionals in 38 countries. The survey found that large enterprises spend an average of $38 million a year on storing and securing data, and small and medium-sized businesses spend an average of $332,000.
And this survey is only aimed at 4056 information technology professionals in 38 countries, and this part of the survey is only the tip of the iceberg for the whole world.
In response to the increase in storage costs, companies can only charge user fees through paid services to reduce business operating costs.
Just like text messages, sending a text message in China requires a fee of 0.1 yuan. This is not because of the krypton gold of the text message service platform, but as a last resort to reduce operating costs.
Although there are many problems and challenges in the data center and big data market,However, the utilization rate of the total global storage capacity has reached 50% at present.
However, as Internet technology continues to develop and upgrade, this ratio cannot meet the needs of development at all. In future data management and storage, IPFS and Filecoin will become indispensable.Become the foundation to support the super IT social innovation that will emerge in the future, and embark on the road of data hegemony.
