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Transactions sent for The Chia Plot Christmas giveaway

Posted on by Chris Dupres

I hope everyone in the Chia community is having a wonderful holiday season, or getting ready for one. On Christmas Day this year I posted a message offering a surprise to anyone that commented with a Chia light wallet address. I have no idea if everyone that commented left a CAT wallet address, or a Nucle or Arbor wallet one. Either way there should be something for everyone.

The transactions are processing as I write this, through a very simple PowerShell script using a CSV file i prepared after some basic Sybil checks. The coins I sent out were:

  • 0.01 Chia (XCH)
  • 500 SpaceBucks (SBX)
  • 10 CryptoShibe (not even sure)

So what everyone should have received is some XCH, a Verified CAT and an Unverified CAT. Should be enough for everyone to play with if they didn’t have any to begin with.

The PowerShell script I used to send everything is this:

$sbx = 500
$cshib = 10
$xch = 0.01
import-csv C:\Users\blakt\OneDrive\chiaplot\giveaway.csv | foreach {
$address = $_.address
./chia.exe wallet send -i 1 -a $xch -t $address
start-sleep -seconds 30
./chia.exe wallet send -i 2 -a $sbx -t $address
start-sleep -seconds 30
./chia.exe wallet send -i 4 -a $cshib -t $address 
start-sleep -seconds 30
}

I had to sleep 30 seconds in between each transaction because of the Chia coin model. While it might help for a lot of use cases it does not help in sending a lot of little transactions from a few coins. I suspect this is why the dust stormer had to prepare all the coins first. Also, for anyone interested the -i 2 is the first CAT wallet in the light wallet when you have one key loaded (SpaceBucks for me). That is how you send CATs from the command line.

I don’t find this mechanism of sending bulk transactions very good, and it was quite a pain to send less than 200 transactions. Running payroll like this could take some effort without some custom transaction code to make the coin/change transaction spend less cumbersome. I only had 2 Chia coins in my wallet, and the CATs were arranged similarly. When I made a transaction I could only really make 1 more before having to wait for change to come back. This was not ideal. Even with the long delay some transactions failed because of no spendable balance (waiting for change). Through this process the quad core / eight thread CPU on my Surface Pro 6 was pinning almost to 100% relatively frequently, so it was also quite resource intensive. I am going to try and clean up any errors, but if anyone did not receive one of those coins please reach out to me here or on discord.

I suspect Chia will have a better way of sending out their Christmas CATs. I hope they share the code so the next time I do this its a little easier. Because the performance here does not scale the way I was doing it, and I doubt their global partners are going to be OK sending CATs at real rate of only a couple per second with long delays and an operator monitoring progress.

33 thoughts on “Transactions sent for The Chia Plot Christmas giveaway”

  7. Thanks for the attempted give-away. Unfortunately it never arrived in my wallet, even though i posted on the original blog entry. 🙁
    xch1g3q79477p0e037jdc70v8tna69nees5y0le8v8lsw3cazflm494qtwga6e

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  9. Hi there, got 0.01 xch and 500 SBX thanks a lot! Nice to have something else except XCH in the wallet 🙂

    Just wonder about 10 CryptoShibe whether I need to “teach” my light wallet to see such coins or they would appear automatically?

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  10. Hi,
    thank you for the x-mas give-away.
    Did it make its way already through the full CSV List?
    I was on the original post with my address

    xch1ctrejpzr255njuayuvxpy4wk5saew9ej7tu7qxnv7drgge0rhspqe2dfca

    unfortunately no arrivals in my wallet.

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  12. Thanks for the giveaway!

    You are right. The chia UTXO model won’t let you spend one coin more than once. So if you want to send multiple coins at once, you have to have multiple coins ready. I think Bram said that, eventually, it’ll be costly to send small amount of mojos on L1.

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  14. Just to add to above, it did show in the transactions, just they are in reverse date order unlike the normal wallet. It was also two transactions of 0.01 XCH 24 minutes apart.

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  23. Well, why it is should be a light wallet address? I’v posted the one on Chia CLI, but the one below is my light wallet address which generated 2 days ago when I was trying Arbor.

    xch1w2sr44sngsy4erf7d3uztytk6kt8e0kp7spwv0j8jjh5zfendagstd9233

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  27. I left a comment on the original post but have not received any coins yet. No worries, I know there are always bugs and kinks to work out. Thanks again!
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  29. Hello! I left a comment on the original post but didn’t get anything. Thank you
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  30. Marry XCHmass and Happy New Year!!! Let the Chia be with you!
    xch1jwpxc8d2dc364z9e9pq4luafum336l6pvyu0nezx2xy5x96mpykquynp08

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