Are mirror points eternal? We have kept a photo of "River in Qingming Festival".

More and more content developers are starting to realize the potential dangers of storage space in the medium, and to avoid malfunctions that destroy all of their design resources, people are using Arweave to store regularly their original products. Media on the mirror platform.

So how are Mirror products stored in Arweave? Who pays for the storage of mirrors? How can users be sure that their files are saved permanently?

With these questions in mind, we came across the entire process of using Mirror products. Below we will answer these questions in detail.

How can a mirror save a writer?

Before answering these questions, it is important to know the difference between the two types of Web3 products that Glass uses to retain consumers. One is Arweave, which is used for stable storage, and the other is the Ethereum mainnet, an NFT mining platform used to identify and copy products.

Conservation of mirrors: Arweave

As Arweave is a public channel optimized for storage efficiency, the cost of storing user data of the Arweave channel is lower than that of other compact public channel platforms. . At the same time, the nature of the storage chain confirms the risk of the data stored in Arweave, so the Arweave-based storage mode is often classified as no storage.

So how can the tags on Mirror be permanently stored in Arweave?

Open the mirror.xyz homepage, navigate to the wallet metamask, sign it, and then navigate to the homepage.

Click directly on an item to access the edit page. After entering the title and body content, click the Publish button in the upper right corner.

After some time, the test results were recorded on the Arweave channel. Now reopen the sentence interface and you will see the Arweave exchange hash displayed under the content entry.

It usually takes a few minutes to load, so don't worry if you see this interface after opening. Please wait.

Refresh the interface again and you will see that the transaction is complete.

You can view the hash exchange, exchange rate, and other files in that exchange's browser interface. However, unlike Ethereum's business logic, exchanging additional content stored in Arweave does not require a location address, so the previous address on the right is null. At the same time, for operations in storage mode, a link to the storage content is displayed in the center of the interface.

Click on the link in the middle to see how the article can be saved.

In the new link that opens, you can see the content of the text you just entered and the title of the sentence. Apart from the content of the article, the rest are important information like article format, signature etc. You will find that the article you just created is permanently stored on the Arweave channel.

So if the user continues to edit the sentences, will the edited changes be saved permanently? We keep trying.

Click the Edit button above to return to the text editing interface.

Feel free to add a line of text below the sentence and then click the save button on the right side.

Wait a moment and you will see that the article has been updated. In addition, the Arweave industry hash at the bottom of the article has also been changed, click the link to enter the browser interface.

You will see that data like hashes, block height, etc. have changed. This means that when you save a modified article, Mirror automatically stores a new article in the second chain in the background. You can click the Save link to save the special content and see if the update has been bounced back to the Arweave channel.

Mirror's storage logic is very reliable. As long as the user clicks the post or record button, the mirror system will start working, which will record all the text in the channel again. Unless the acknowledgment time is limited by Arweave's performance and users have to wait a few minutes, the rest of the mirror experience is no different from the average authoring platform such as Medium. At the same time, free storage string support makes Mirror the best Web3 writing platform currently available.

However, we know that every channel change comes at a price. We did not display a wallet confirmation page at the time of storage, who pays for this storage?

We have now rechecked the data for both industries and found that both exchanges were started from the same address "Ky1c1Kkt-jZ9sY1hvLF5nCf6WWdBhIU5Un_BMYh-t3c". Click on the Address link to access the search interface for that address.

The change history for this site shows that it is owned by Mirror.xyz and has been specially designed to allow users to send and store exchange data on the Arweave network. Let's make the change we just made as an example. The total exchange rate of 0.0004203AR and uses approximately 1.07K of chain of storage. Based on an AR value of $ 50, the subsidy that this mirror industry offers to its users is around $ 0.002.

Of course, the longer a user posts and the more time they have to edit and store, the higher the cost paid by the mirror.

Mirror control component

Keeping users' creative content on the channel all the time can ensure that these activities are not lost, but still does not help developers monitor their policies and create value in related industries. So we need another web3 content layer to verify the permission of the stored content while recording. Develop content based on the NFT assets that people usually refer to.

At this point, Mirror has selected a major Ethereum backbone for operation. Just check the NFT button on the right side before saving wallet paper to clear the screen. All of the previous experience is fine with the familiar NFT casting process, so I won't go into too much detail in this sentence.

From my current experience, I can see that when the user prints the mirror phrase, all 2 login processes are involved. At one point, the content itself was permanently stored on the Arweave channel, the price was covered by the Mirror, and at another point it was recognized in the form of Ethereum's NFT and the cost paid by the 'user.

The two experiences kept like mirrors

As mentioned above, the cost of continuously collecting Arweave products through Mirror is also borne by Mirror. So, can I take the current free mirror special offer and use the mirror as a free repository to store personal photos and other photo items without any problem? Pay AR for storage?

Next, we run two air tests on the mirror to see what the basic logic behind the machine looks like.

Use the mirror to record "the top and bottom images of Qingming festival".

We downloaded the translated digitized version of "Qingming River Festival" from Wikipedia. The total size is 104 million.

After downloading, click on the save button and wait for a while to enter the search parameters.

Why is the total storage space limited to 1.25 KB?

When you click on the special archived content link, you will see that the saved image has been modified with the link url in the middle (https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/jHh43U86fDtX6qEQUJO5q .jpeg ).

We see that the stable name of the mirror is only true for the text of the sentence. For multimedia content such as movies and photos that takes up a lot of storage space, Mirror is also the medium of choice. If the hosting service provided by Mirror is discontinued in the future, media content such as users' additional images for text will still be completely lost on the internet.

Just keep all the notes of "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" using the mirror

Attempts to permanently store large images have failed. So let's try again to see if the mirror has a big limit for storing large characters.

We searched for the entire text of “Jiji Tongjeon,” which covers over 1,300 years of Chinese history from the Warring States period to the five dynasties. The downloadable txt version has a file size of 9.4 million, or about 3 million words in total. We copy the entire text, insert it into the mirror edit page, and click the save button to submit it.

So ... it doesn't work.

I have tried a few more times and still have not succeeded (see the error message on the right side).

The mirror always seems to have a limit on all the details. The script has been constantly updated to around 230,000 characters (23rd year of King Zhuweil - 4th year of Han Dynasty), and the export has been completed.

As you can see in the browser, this switch uses a total of 849.73 KB of storage on the Arweave chain. At the same time, the holding price of 0.00016407AR was paid, which is approximately $ 0.008 based on the value of $ 50.

It can be seen that the performance of Mirror and the cost of using Arweave to store data is still valid. Currently, Mirror places some restrictions on all text in a post, but for the average user, using Mirror to store notes etc. is sufficient.

Plans to use the mirror grant feature to free up Arweave storage space failed after just two attempts. But it also shows that Mirror actively encourages users to save money, making the task of using Arweave as stable as possible. Users don't need to buy AR to pay for storage directly, or they don't need to set up an Arweave wallet and learn how to interact with the new channel to the public.

While there are some limitations, it can be said that Mirror recognizes the best in product experience when joining stable Web3 products. From a visual point of view, we can say that Mirror sees a nice balance between the Web2 and Web3 aspects.

Mirror of innovation and limits

Let’s immediately end our experiment and return to our discussion of glass materials. You will find that the mirror combined with the stable storage is not a copy of the media. It also decides and integrates certain Web3 tasks while keeping users informed about the product. However, if Web3 products, used by tens of millions of users, are measured against the real transport model, we have to admit that the current mirror still has some drawbacks:

Mirror is not yet fully decentralized for persistent storage, but a hybrid storage platform combined with part of a centralized hosting mechanism. Media files stored on the mirror platform also come with risk of loss. Of course, this problem must wait for the further development of the storage industry to gradually resolve itself.

Since Mirror supports user billing, certain controls should be in place to prevent malicious users from using free software to attack the Mirror platform later. Thus, there is no chance that the mirror will be fully opened, and the process has some restrictions (such as upper limit of the language, etc.).

The cost of broadcasting NFTs using the Ethereum mainnet to verify the code is too high to generate noise. This keeps many products away from real consumers, making distribution and aftermarket marketing difficult. Arweave founder Sam Williams said, "Your size is not your voice." All of these unconfirmed NFTs are kept public in a portfolio managed by Arweave's Mirror. A user address in Ethereum is missing, but the user is still remote from the list of fully managed user assets.

Currently, the relaunch concept developed by Mirror continues to allow users to distribute NFTs as products. The author's final rebirth is directly related to the number of NFT writes in the sentence. Unlike current systems which have benefited from proof or support based on the quality of the content of the content (eg transcripts), Mirror uses the first of the articles to support the writers. However, this model has not been tested for a long time. While it may support large platform deployments in the future, constant testing, bug fixes, and modifications will be required.

No indexing points and traffic entry. The first question that many people use mirrors for is how to find the best products for them. Currently, Mirror is a lot of raw material, and writers still have to rely on other platforms like Twitter to share and edit their content. Mirror currently does not have a face for fine content processing, but of course this work can be done by communities, relying on the web3.

Mirror is without a doubt the best decentralized writing platform you can find today. The emergence of Mirror allows us to see some of the early models of new internet-based Web3 technology in the future. Although there are currently restrictions such as construction costs, Mirror still has some uncertainties in its products. However, we believe that these issues will be resolved gradually as the technology of Web3 improves.

At the same time, this article was published simultaneously on Mirror and aired as NFT.

Mirror read address: https://mirror.xyz/0x336CcE99dEcd392bAC66a6C4dd88480E2442696E/2Oz81CEH9CQfQ6snlgnuv2sMUSqdgEjV1YpLyOIy-Ik

Arweave content link: https://fi4xkcdvfnnu6kqqjlxtrb7cvgl3wf7aufxhgb4keifn5ndsusqa.arweave.net/Kjl1CHUrW08qEErvOIfiqZe7F-ChbnMHiiIK3rRypKA