How Filecoin Works: Part 1

In Part 1 of this talk by led by Nicola of Protocol Labs, learn about how the Filecoin protocol is both a Decentralized Storage Market, and a Storage Based Consensus. This section covers an introduction, the blockchain basics, as well as Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) components.
Part 2 Coming Soon
Resources: Join Protocol Labs Launchpad: https://pl-launchpad.io/ , Filecoin Docs: https://docs.filecoin.io/, Filecoin Spec: https://spec.filecoin.io/

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the Filecoin Products
01:54 The Filecoin Blockchain: Basics of Mining & Messages
02:05 Filecoin Messages
03:04 Epochs
05:54 The Filecoin Virtual Machine
07:35 FVM Components: Actors, Addresses, State, & Execution
08:19 Actors
09:55 Addresses
12:35 Actor Methods
14:56 The Execution Model