So I have to be honest, I didn’t really start to look into this until my site started to get a ton of search traffic for Chives. This is not normal. So I looked into what Chives has been up to, and it seems like they have taken a wildly different approach to their blockchain while I wasn’t paying any attention.
Instead of trying to work as well as possible with Chia NFT plots like Flax, or ignoring the problem and architecting around it like Tad, Chives Coin has seemingly decided to go with a “beside Chia, not with Chia” approach. They have decided not to work with Chia’s K32 plots but only support K29, K30 and K31. This is very interesting because these plots are going to fit into a lot of spaces left behind on disks by Chia farmers. All my disks have a few room for Chives plots if I want.
They haven’t really documented this very well, although they are clear that they do not support Chia plots on their github, but it is a totally different approach to the other forks and I am not sure how that is going to go. Now, they still have their weird Proof of Service mechanic coming, and their strange community payout model instead of a pre-farm. I have no idea if this is worth farming, but I think the idea of preventing farming with Chia plots altogether is a bold and interesting move and I am curious if it works out for them. I just might download their client and plot a few k29s. It really doesn’t take very long. That’s why Chia doesn’t use them.
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im new to chia! but not crypto,
just a thought, has anyone from the forks considered merge mining their fork like namecoin did back in the day? or the way Doge is merge mined using litecoin?
not a doge guy here BTW just pointing out that dogecoin is merge mined on the litecoin chain, basicly when you mine litecoin you also get the byproduct of doge all you need to do is claim it…
once again really really new to chia and working on understanding the underlying tech, probably talk nonsense here but just in case this info helps…
Chives wants their own space, that’s why you can’t use chia plots like in all the other forks. Currently you can farm like 37 different forks on the same plots, where will that end? Most people do it only because they want to get the most out of their plots and not because the project is actually good…