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Lotus
Lotus is an experimental implementation of the Filecoin Distributed Storage Network. For more details about Filecoin, check out the Filecoin Spec.
What can I learn here?
- If you want to store or retrieve data, you can install Lotus on Arch Linux, Ubuntu, or MacOS and get started.
- Learn how to join the DevNet with the command line interface.
- Learn how to test Lotus in a seperate local network using a GUI.
- Learn how to mine Filecoin using the
lotus-storage-minerin the CLI
What makes Lotus different?
Lotus is architected modularly to keep clean API boundaries while using the same process. The Lotus Full Node and the Lotus Storage Miner are two separate programs.
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 full node via the websockets JSON RPC API for all of its chain interaction needs.
This way, a mining operation may easily run one or many storage miners, connected to one or many full node instances.