Overview
Storage providers in the Filecoin network are in charge of storing, providing content and issuing new blocks.
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- Understand how providing storage works and what different types of providers exist.
- Learn how storage providers get rewards when doing their job properly, but also slashed when they are unable to honor deals they have made.
- Learn about different storage provider architectures.
- Setup and run a high performant
lotus-miner
.
The documentation you will be reading assumes you are familiar with the documentation in the Get started section, have a general grasp of how Filecoin works and are familiar with Filecoin node software and tooling.
Running a successful storage provisioning operation on Filecoin has high hardware requirements and, apart from a strong familiarity with Filecoin, requires experience in systems deployment and administration.