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Let’s talk about Chia Forks

Posted on July 7, 2021July 7, 2021 by Chris Dupres

More and more Chia forks are popping up every day. We have Flax, which is still doing well and approaching 2 EiB in netspace. ChainGreen still seems to work for me. Spare, Chives, ChiaRose etc are not running in my lab anymore and I have no plans to move in production farming with them. I haven’t even gotten around to testing Goji or Silicoin or ChiaDoge or any of the others popping up.

A little while back I posted a how-to guide on how to run a farm with Chia forks accessible to your plots without giving them full access to your Chia configuration / keys through use of virtualization. I definitely agree with that, and if you are going to go down the fork in the road you should 100% virtualize your forks. However there are two complications with that I would like to follow up on.

The first is the sheer number of forks popping up. There are Discord channels, big community maintained spreadsheets, tools and a whole community popping up around these. That is fantastic, and I heartily approve, however it does make covering the space a very busy job. It also makes running them all in individual VMs very memory intensive. If you plan to run a LOT of forks then you will either need to have enough RAM to accommodate, probably 64GB minimum, or you will have to double them up in VMs which will eliminate some of the security protections if one does go rogue.

The second thing, and by far the bigger issue, is going to be the NFT pooling implementation. We are going to have a guide ready in the next few days for plotting to NFTs and the various architectures that way but the recommendation is going to always be to plot to an NFT on the blockchain so that you can join pools with your plots. As of right now, no fork supports them. And while I have been told it is possible for a fork like Flax to use the same NFT addresses it is a fairly complicated implementation. And it might not work at all as they deviate from Chia more and more.

Big list of Chia forks. Its only getting bigger.

So farmers are going to be faced with the decision of either keep their plots for forks and solo farming Chia, or joining a pool like FoxyPool-OG or CorePool, or they will be risking leaving the fork ecosystem behind entirely.

I am personally likely to replot for pools. I think the long term benefits will outweigh the short term pain of all the replotting. I am under 500 plots in my farm, so it is not a huge endeavor. But when you get into 1000, or 2000, or 10000 plots it starts become a much bigger decision. I have my concerns that the whales the pools are hoping to attract in order to get a big jump on netspace may opt to just farm solo and maybe check out Flax rather than repeat their May and June months plotting.

As for The Chia Plot, covering the forks is becoming a huge time commitment and I made the decision for now to concentrate on coverage of the Chia pools that are coming online. If you think that its worth finding someone to cover them full time, or you would like to take a stab at covering the forks for this site, please reach out via our Contact page, Discord or our Forum – all available in the top menu. I would love to hear from you. Otherwise the newest ones will have to wait, unless something super interesting comes along.

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7 thoughts on “Let’s talk about Chia Forks”

  1. Anonymous says:
    July 9, 2021 at 3:54 am

    have you checked mass?https://massnet.org/en/blog/MASS_development_update_22

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    1. Chris Dupres says:
      July 9, 2021 at 6:42 am

      I have not, have you? What is different about it?

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      1. anonymouse says:
        July 12, 2021 at 3:24 am

        Mass like Burst&BHD are clones of Burst, and are six year old HDD mining coins; From the last time we went around this wheel; Chia came from the same gen, and floundered like them, until it found financing last year. Then there is also ‘filecoin’; Essentially BHD, Burst, Filecoin, & Chia are all clones of each other; Chia of course rebranded everything with the farm, farmer, harvester, plot non-sense; Prior to Chia’s launch it was just HDD-Mining. HDD-Mining 2017 of course is all 100% clones of Classic Bitcoin from 2009;

        HPOOL allows you to mine Mass, Burst, BHD(Bitcoin-HDD), and Chia. ( <$5cents, <2cents, <$2, <$250 )

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  2. Yasin Gharbaqui Aguilera says:
    July 9, 2021 at 8:46 am

    creen que spare y chia rose rose salgan al mercado proxiamente?

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  3. Clones R US says:
    July 12, 2021 at 3:16 am

    HDDcoin is looking good,

    ChainGreen is broken most of the time, but at launch was an easy winner of coin; Dev’s seem to be out of their skill set.

    Seno don’t work;
    Flax is the clear leader at 2TB

    Goji is right up there with ChainGreen, meaning a big zero.

    There are now dozens of chia-clones with the word ‘doge’ in the coin;

    Most of the chia-clones are now coming out of Russia where they’re endeared by the name “Littles Chias”; 100% all scams; There are now 100’s of chia-clones;

    BHD Burst chiadoge dogeChia Chives Flax Flax-Vm Goji-VM Grass Green Green-VM hddcoin Seno silicoin

    My list of active chia

    Most of the new coins being announced now are still in test-net, with dev’s saying mainnet next year; This is a case where dev’s build the website first and then hope to find programmers to make a clone;

    Certainly the cost of entry to make a chia-clone is now zero.

    What’s any of it worth, well flax at #1 says zero, so the other well they’re worth less than zero.

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  4. Anonymous says:
    July 12, 2021 at 6:33 pm

    Here’s a great list of Chia forks https://xchforks.com

    Reply
  5. Anonymous says:
    October 1, 2021 at 3:30 pm

    . I am sure that there are at least 2-3 groups, but I am sure that the creators of almost all forks are themselves. It is so obvious that they are not professional and have no vision, it has not occurred to them to devote 3-5 days to websites and to create websites with different themes. Like the Dark Web, they set up their own exchange event. You think you are transferring between the two, but in fact they take it from your right pocket and put it in your left pocket. almost 99% of them are doomed to disappear in an instant.

    For Example Mint Coin -> Flax Coin…same guys cloned the system and create new coin called Mint. So more more if you investigate deeply.

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