Background

We celebrate the milestone of 50 storage nodes on the SiaPrime network by running the next round of financial incentives. The plan will evolve into a long term process of sharing revenues with storage partners recognizing storing data is a serious commitment.

背景

我们通过实行下一轮激励来庆祝SiaPrime网络上50个存储节点的里程碑。 该计划将成为与存储合作伙伴共享收入的长期过程，他们已经认识到存储数据是一项郑重的承诺。

Plan/Guidelines

Bring up a new node and receive 20,000 coins to help cover the cost of collateral. Stay online and receive ongoing monthly incentives*. New for Round 2, refer a friend who delivers a node (live for 30 days) and receive another 10,000 SCP as they also receive coins!

计划/指南

建立一个新节点可以获得20,000个币，用以抵消资产抵押的费用。 保持在线可以持续每月获得奖励。第2轮新奖励计划的规则是：如果你推荐的一位朋友成为一个节点（在线30天），可以获得另外10,000个SCP，而且他们也会获得币奖励！

Nodes must meet the following guidelines to participate: 

Minimum amount of storage offered to receive incentives - 750GB

Contract formation fees - leave at default

Bandwidth charges(upload/download) - 100 SCP minimum

Storage pricing - 2000 SCP minimum

Collateral - 2x Minimum (should be <3x to ensure a good score, 2.5x optimal)

节点必须符合以下准则才能成为存储节点：

1、提供最低限度的存储空间- 750GB；

2、合同订立费 –软件提供的默认值；

3、带宽费用（上传/下载）- 最少100 SCP

4、存储价格- 最低2000 SCP

5、资产抵押 – 默认值的最低2倍（<3倍以确保良好的分数，2.5倍最佳），默认是2000SCP

After discussions of thin-provisioning and larger datacenters, we've decided to move immediately to a mixed incentive reward for Round 2. The issue in paying on capacity is that it is trivial to make a storage node appear much larger than it is, requiring expensive disk filling tests to verify. Our solution is to pay partially on available storage with a ceiling and on data stored. The benefit is this incentivizes more storage AND setting aggressive pricing strategies to earn a good node score (along with more contracts/storage).

在讨论了小型存储提供商和更大的数据中心后，我们决定立即实行第2轮的混合奖励。按照存储容量来支付的问题是，通过一些技术可以很轻松地使存储节点的存储量比实际的看上去大得多，而这这需要通过昂贵的代价来存满磁盘空间测试来验证其实际存储量。我们的解决方案是通过设置存储空间封顶值来给存储空间付费，即超过封顶值的磁盘空间我们不付费，在这个基础上，我们再支付数据存储费用。 这样做的好处是可以激励更多存储并设置积极的定价策略，以获得良好的节点分数（以及更多的合同/存储）。

Reward schedule

.625 SCP/GB/Mo of storage offered up to 32TB with a 20,000 SCP cap + 10 SCP/GB/Mo of data stored

Example calculation 1:

Storage offered: 1500gb x .625 = 938 SCP + Data stored: 475gb x 10 = 4750 SCP

Total reward = 5688 SCP

Example calculation 2:

Storage offered: 64000gb x .625 = 40,000 SCP (20k over cap so reward = 20,000 SCP) + Data stored: 2250gb x 10 = 22500 SCP Total reward = 42500 SCP

奖励计划

0.625 SCP / GB /月*提供的存储空间（32TB存储空间封顶上限，即奖励不超过20,000个SCP，也就是即使存储空间大于32TB，也只能拿到20,000个SCP）   + 10SCP/ GB /月* 数据存储存储量

示例计算1：

提供的存储：1500GB x 0.625 = 938 SCP +数据存储：475GB x 10 = 4750 SCP

总共奖励= 5688 SCP

示例计算2：

提供的存储空间：64000GB x0 .625 = 40,000 SCP（超过上限20k，因此奖励= 20,000 SCP）+数据存储：2250gb x 10 = 22500 SCP

总奖励= 42500 SCP

To get started in hosting, download our current client software and then register at this link. SiaPrime (SCP) is available on Bisq.network today and will be live on Crypto-Bridge soon. You can also mine profitably using ASIC rigs from Innosilicon, Obelisk, Bitmain and others.

* Hosts from Round 1 will receive the greater of either the original 3 month reward schedule or the new calculation.

要开始主机托管，请下载我们当前的客户端软件，然后在此链接注册。我们现在可以在Bisq.network和Crypto-Bridge（加密桥）两个交易所上买到SCP。 您还可以使用Innosilicon，Obelisk，Bitmain等公司的ASIC矿机来挖SCP，得到的SCP可以用来开展主机托管业务再次赚取SCP。

*第1轮的主机托管获得的奖励将超过原来3个月的或新算法的奖励计划。

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Following up on the new Incentive calculations, I felt compelled to offer the following perspective. Currently, it's possible to earn an almost absurd amount of SCP coins by purchasing ASIC miners made by Innosilicon and available used on popular marketplace sites like Ebay. The SiaPrime supply is built to closely mirror the original Sia coin supply and at genesis, the reward was 300k/block, same as it was on the Sia blockchain 4 years ago. There is close to 2PH/s of hashrate on our chain with nearly 600 individual mining rigs. The Innosilicon S11 can deliver just over 4TH/s in normal mode suggesting some 400 of these units mining today. The current yields for an S11 ASIC are fantastic! For the people who were upset last year when Sia announced the Obelisk fork, SiaPrime has delivered a great alternative to keep these machines in use. Except that isn't what has happened.

继新的激励算法后，我觉得有必要提下以下的观点。 目前，通过购买Innosilicon制造的ASIC矿机可以获得大量的SCP币，并且可以在像Ebay这样的热门市场网站上使用。SiaPrime 最初创建的目的是尽可能镜像原始Sia币的供给 ，奖励为300k /区块，与4年前的Sia区块链相同。 我们的链上有近2PH /秒的算力，有近600个单独的矿机。当前Innosilicon S11在正常模式下可以提供超过4TH / 秒的速度，400个单元开采。S11 ASIC的当前产量非常棒！ 对于去年Sia宣布使用Obelisk fork, 而感到不安的人来说，SiaPrime提供了一个很好的替代方案来保持这些机器的使用。

On Halloween when Sia forked to a proprietary algorithm, there were an estimated 10,000 Innosilicon S11 units mining the blockchain. There were also as many as 90,000 Bitmain A3 units although the efficiency of this rig is nearly 1/4th of the S11 and most have been shut off. The units mining on 10/31/2018 accounted for nearly 100PH/s at the peak. After the fork, there existed 3 forked projects; SiaPrime, Hyperspace and SiaClassic. The 3 combined currently account for less than 8PH/s total, meaning there are over 8000 S11 units and countless A3 units that are laying dormant. At the same time,Nicehash decided to list the new Sia format and no longer has a Blake2b algorithm for renters, meaning big farms have next to no outlets to sell hashrate to.

在万圣节那天，Sia分叉成专有算法时，估计有10,000个Innosilicon S11矿机在挖SC。 尽管Bitmain A3矿机的效率几乎是S11的1/4，而且大部分都被关闭了，但仍然还有多达90,000台在挖。2018年10月31日 当时这些在开采的设备在峰值时几乎达到了100PH / 秒。 分叉之后，还存在3个项目; SiaPrime，Hyperspace和SiaClassic。 目前3个组合总计不到8PH / 秒，这意味着有超过8000个S11单元和无数A3单元处于休眠状态。 与此同时，Nicehash决定发布新的Sia格式，并且不再为租借者提供Blake2b算法，这意味着大型矿场几乎无法出售算力。

This is an amazing opportunity for the spec-miner who understands that mining at cycle lows brings the highest rewards when bull markets inevitably return. A small group of miners following the project are packing away enormous bags they expect to increase in value significantly in a year or two. These kinds of asymmetric information situations occur frequently in the crypto space and represent the easiest way to create strong returns. But they never last for long. What typically occurs is other miners learn of the situation or the coin gets listed on an exchange or some potent development news comes out and the hashrate increases with dormant miners firing up. When this inevitably occurs, miners will earn significant lower numbers of coins as they compete with more ASICs.

对于那些了解在牛市回归前的低点时可获得最高回报的精明挖矿者而言 ，这是一个绝佳的机会。 一小部分矿工正在跟随项目大量的打包，他们希望在一两年内大幅增加价值。这些不对称信息很少被人所知，并且代表了获得最大回报的最简单方法。 但它们永远不会持续很长时间。 通常会发生的事情是其他挖矿者了解情况了或币在交易所上市，或者一些重大消息出现，算力随着挖矿者的激增而增加。当这种情况不可避免地发生时，挖矿者在与更多ASIC竞争时将获得相当少数量的币。

What does this have to do with hosting incentives? Some folks have questioned the amount of coins given out in incentives as being far less than mining rewards. This is absolutely accurate TODAY. But this won't last and before long with increased numbers of miners, a higher coin valuation and a declining block reward, hosting storage will continue to be a great way to support the project and earn significant coins. Join us.

这与托管激励有什么关系？ 有些人质疑激励中给出的币数量远低于采矿奖励。 这说法当前绝对准确。 但是这将不会持续太久，因为随着矿工数量的增加，币价的提高和区块奖励的下降，托管主机将成为项目运行支撑和赚取大量SCP币的绝好方法。现在就加入我们，成为托管主机吧！