Hard drive? Mining? Yes, the ups and downs of DIY industry have deviated from the general direction of DIY industry because of chia, Chia and hard disk mining. After you sang, I came on stage, and all kinds of monsters swarmed in, trying to cut off a piece of meat and get a piece of cake while DIY was caught in a strange circle, so there was a strange phenomenon that the whole line of graphics cards was out of stock, forcing second-hand graphics cards to exceed the sky-high price.
So what exactly is hard disk mining? What is Chia, a strange Chia coin? Will hard disk mining trigger an industry storm like the shortage of graphics cards? Today, the author will start the whole process of hard disk mining with you, and learn about Chia Coin and hard disk mining together.
Before understanding hard disk mining, we need to know the origin and value of chia, that is, what we dig out from hard disk.
The so-called Chia coins are actually of the same lineage as Bitcoin, and both belong to virtual digital currency. At the same time, they all have monetary characteristics such as decentralization, tradeability, virtual anonymity and equivalent exchange value. It was founded by Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent. Similar to Bitcoin, Chia will be a global open source decentralized network. Using its original cryptocurrency to run the payment and settlement system will be called Chia (Chia) or XCH, which is also
Qianqiu needs a large-capacity hard disk.
Unlike Bitcoin, which needs the computing power provided by graphics cards to mine, chia needs ordinary users to use and expand their storage space in order to get a higher probability of explosion and win rewards.
As mentioned above, the acquisition of Chia coins depends on the size of the user's own storage space. The larger the storage space, the higher the probability of explosion. Its internal principle is that obtaining chia-coins is to calculate whether the hash value stored in the hard disk is closer to the challenge value, and the closer it is, the more corresponding values can be obtained, which is also commonly known as explosion;
Matching proof is matching hash value.
In fact, in Chia currency circle, it is not accurate to describe this process by mining, and farming may more appropriately describe the process of hard disk mining.
Before mining (breeding), we need to prepare a large-capacity mechanical hard disk to store a large amount of written data, and the randomly generated data will directly determine the probability of subsequent seed explosion; In addition, we also need to prepare a high-performance solid-state hard disk for fast storage of cached files when writing files.
P pan
When these hardware are ready, the system will start to generate random data on the mechanical hard disk, that is, the process of P disk, that is, plot, which is called drawing in Chinese. We can understand it as land reclamation, that is, land development before harvest. This process does not require much IO performance of the hard disk itself, but pays more attention to capacity. The larger the capacity of disk P, the higher the drawing area and the higher the subsequent explosion probability, which is also the reason for the recent large capacity.
Accelerated p disk
In order to speed up the process of P disk, we need a higher-performance solid-state hard disk as a cache disk to improve the overall efficiency.
After assigning the respective tasks of mechanical hard disk and solid state hard disk, you can play disk P. After completing the process of disk P, the system will start to verify and match the random files stored in the mechanical hard disk, that is, the hash value of the random files will be paired with the hash value in the public network one by one. If the match is successful, you can get the corresponding Chiaki coin reward, which is mining in the traditional sense.
For the subsequent impact of hard disk mining, the author will talk about his own ideas from both short-term and long-term directions.
In the short term, the impact is huge and bad.
It is just needed storage for ordinary users and ordinary enterprises. Different from video card mining, hard disk mining with lower threshold and only focusing on capacity directly leads to different levels of hoarding of goods by individuals and groups of all sizes. Everyone wants to take advantage of the hard disk mining storm, hoard goods in strange places, and then leave to cut leeks, which leads to the inability to meet the normal storage needs.
Just need families to suffer.
Secondly, major dealers and after-sales service providers, the emergence of hard disk mining will greatly improve the failure rate of hard disks and reduce their service life. A large number of after-sales service and warranty service surge, hard disks that are difficult to distinguish between true and false are used normally, and mining hard disks will greatly impact the distribution system and after-sales service system;
The market is completely out of stock.
Finally, for manufacturers, the sudden storm of hoarding goods will affect and disrupt the annual production plan of manufacturers and break the supply relationship between upstream and downstream. In view of the uncertainty of this storm, manufacturers dare not easily supply and adjust the production quantity, which further aggravates the phenomenon that the market is in short supply.
In the long run, the supply and demand of hard disks will gradually balance, even after the hard disk storm, the potential threat of oversupply will directly lead to the market price diving.
Different from graphics card mining, hard disk mining has a lower threshold, and major storage manufacturers around the world can easily produce more hard disks with more capacity and quantity, especially in China market, which supplies almost most of the global storage needs; Therefore, when Chia-coin truly forms a complete trading link and becomes a recognized virtual currency, major manufacturers can appropriately increase their production capacity and supply full hard disk capacity, even far exceeding it, which in turn leads to oversupply and price diving.
After all, there is no insurmountable technical barrier for manufacturers to use hard disks for data storage.
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