In cryptocurrency world, major earning models are Cryptocurrency Mining, ICO, crypto trading(Exchange/DEX, DeFi, NFT). Here, our topic is mining - especially filecoin(lotus).
A Crypto Mining depends on the consenus algorithm of the blockchain. In PoW blockchains like bitcoin, more computing power, more rewarded.In PoS blockchains like ethereum-2.0 & cosmos, more stakes, more rewards gained. In filecoin, of which the consensus is PoRep+PoST, more storage pledged, more rewards. For lotus mining, anyone can buy storage and computing machines for it from the market. The key part that every mining provider concerns is pledging/sealing speed because miners are finally rewarded according to the portion of their pledged storage over the whole network pledged storage. So, higher sealing algorithm means almost everything to them. It can reduce the number of computers to be purchased or It also ensure that you can win in the competition over growth of pleding power with other miners. There are offical version