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Lotus
Lotus is an alternative implementation of the Filecoin Distributed Storage Network. It is the only implementation you will be able to use when the Filecoin TestNet launches.
For more details about Filecoin, check out the Filecoin Spec.
What can I learn here?
- How to install Lotus on Arch Linux, Ubuntu, or MacOS.
- Joining the Lotus DevNet using your CLI.
- Storing or retrieving data.
- Mining Filecoin using the Lotus Storage Miner in your CLI.
What makes Lotus different?
Lotus is architected modularly to keep clean API boundaries while using the same process. Installing Lotus will include two seperate programs:
- The Lotus Node
- The Lotus Storage Miner
The Lotus Storage Miner is intended to be run on the machine that manages a single storage miner instance, and is meant to communicate with the Lotus Node via the websockets JSON RPC API for all of the chain interaction needs.
This way, a mining operation may easily run a Lotus Storage Miner or many of them, connected to one or many Lotus Node instances.