Re:Filecoin Foundation Grants 50k FIL to the Internet Archive
by slimsag on Thursday April 01, 2021 @10:33PM
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I got curious and looked it up. I found this[0]:
> As the storage miner receives each piece of client data, they place it into a sector. Sectors are the fundamental units of storage in Filecoin, and can contain pieces from multiple deals and clients.
> Next, a process called sealing takes place. During sealing, the sector data is encoded through a sequence of graph and hashing processes to create a unique replica. The encoding process is designed to be slow and computationally heavy, making it difficult to spoof.
> As the storage miner receives each piece of client data, they place it into a sector. Sectors are the fundamental units of storage in Filecoin, and can contain pieces from multiple deals and clients.
> Next, a process called sealing takes place. During sealing, the sector data is encoded through a sequence of graph and hashing processes to create a unique replica. The encoding process is designed to be slow and computationally heavy, making it difficult to spoof.
[0] https://blog.coinlist.co/deep-dive-into-filecoin/