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FAQ About Filecoin (FIL)

• What Is Filecoin (FIL)?

  The Filecoin decentralized storage system aims to store the most important information of humanity. In 2017, it raised $205,000,000 in an Initial Coin Offering and originally planned a mid-2019 launch date. The launch date of the Filecoin mainnet has been pushed back to block 148888, which will be in mid-October, 2020.
  In 2014, the project was described as an incentive layer to be used with the Interplanetary File System. IPFS is a peer-topeer network that allows users to pay in $FIL for services such as data storage and distribution. Filecoin, an open protocol, is backed by a Blockchain that records the commitments made by network participants. Transactions are made in FIL, which is the native currency of the blockchain. The blockchain is built on proof of replication as well as proof of spacetime.
  The community is responsible for all governance of Filecoin, as it is an open-source project. Developers can create cloud storage services such as Dropbox or iCloud on the Filecoin Platform. Filecoin allows anyone to join and store their data, or make money by storing someone else's funds. The creators of Filecoin chose their own blockchain technology to operate the network and token.
  Filecoin's native currency is $FIL, which powers the entire network. FIL tokens are used by clients to pay for transactions. The miners use FIL to guarantee their services.
  Filecoin, according to its developers, is the solution for inefficient storage and retrieval of files. IPFS and a set of efficient tools can help customers find the best solution.

• How to Buy FIL?

  You can buy FIL here with USDT or Credit/ debit card on Toobit. Read our guide on How to Buy Crypto on Toobit for more information.

• Where to Sell FIL?

  You can sell FIL to USDT here on Toobit. Read our guide on How to Trade Spot on Toobit for more information.

• What are some of the primary use cases for Filecoin?

  Filecoin provides the core primitives that enable a decentralized, trustless storage network. These primitives include cryptoeconomic mechanism and publicly verifiable storage proofs. Filecoin offers these primitives in order to solve the difficult problem of building a decentralized, trustless storage network.
  There are several layer 2 solutions on top of Filecoin's core protocol that allow a wide range of applications and use cases, including many that use IPFS. These solutions include Powergate and Textile hub. With these solutions, you can build any use case on Filecoin that can be built using IPFS!
  Filecoin is currently focusing on the following areas:
  Filecoin's developer ecosystem and platform is strengthened by additional developer tools, layer-2 solutions, and libraries.
  
  IPFS apps which rely on decentralized solutions for storage and also want to have a decentralized solution for data persistence.
  
  Filecoin offers a variety of financial tools, including wallets, signing libraries and more.
  
  Filecoin applications that use cryptographic proofs that are publicly verifiable to give their users a timestamped and trustless guarantee of storage.

• Who is the Filecoin (FIL) Founder?

  Juan Benet is the founder of Filecoin, and he also invented the Interplanetary File System. Benet, an American computer scientist, studied at Stanford University. He founded Protocol Labs in may 2014 and attended Y Combinator during the summer to support IPFS, Filecoin and other projects.

• What is FIL Price Now?

  Are you looking for FIL price? Live FIL coin price is updated in real-time on Toobit.

• How Does Filecoin Work?

  Filecoin is a system that involves three parties: clients, retrieval miners and storage miners. These users are closely connected, completing transactions, exchanging data, and making small payments in $FIL.
  Customers pay to store or retrieve data. The client places an order in the online storage market. A deal is then concluded with storage miners. Storage miners store data for clients and are rewarded. Users in this group place files in unoccupied sectors on a hard drive. All actions are recorded and clients get private keys.
  Data is extracted by retrieval miners at the request of clients. Clients can place trades on the Retrieval Off-Chain Market. Retrieval miner can also be a storage miner.
  Filecoin uses IPFS, where data is stored in a peer to peer blockchain. Users choose miners who will store their personal data, and then pay to have them placed in FIL tokens. The miners then execute trades and receive FIL rewards and participation fees. The higher the chance of being rewarded, the more storage the miners provide. Clients can always check the proofs of how their data was stored during a particular transaction. Filecoin uses Proof-of-Replication, while miners use Proof-of-Spacetime.
  If a client wishes to keep their data secure on the Filecoin Network, they will have to pay the miner. The open market determines the cost, which is a combination of factors. The open market is a hyper competitive environment where miners are putting forward their own prices for storage.

• Why does Filecoin mining work best on AMD?

  At the moment, Filecoin’s Proof of Replication is best run on AMD processors. For more information, please refer to this description of Filecoin seals. It runs slower on Intel CPUs. Some ARM processors (such as those in the newer Samsung smartphones) are fast enough to compete, but lack the RAM needed to seal larger sector sizes. This benefit is mainly due to AMD processors' implementation of SHA hardware instructions.

• What are the Benefits of Filecoin?

  First, the price of the service will tend to drop with the advent of a free and large market that specializes in data storage. As the market opens up to all, prices for network usage will be lower.
  By September 2022 the network had united more than 20,000 users, computers, and other devices around the globe, creating a large community of people with similar interests and goals. Filecoin uses existing resources instead of developing new devices and technologies. The network is open to miners from all over the world.
  Filecoin, a decentralized network, has its own methods of protecting data and preventing attacks on a single point.

• How Does Retrieval Work?

  This section covers the very basics of how retrieving data works on the Filecoin network.
  1. Basic retrieval
  2. Serving retrievals
  3. Saturn

• How Does Storage Work?

  This section covers the very basics of storing data works on the Filecoin network.
  1. Filecoin plus
  2. Storage onramps
  3. Filecoin and IPFS