Last week the senior technical executives from Chia Network, Gene Hoffman, Bram Cohen and Paul Hainsworth, as well as J. Eckert moderating, hosted an Ask Me Anything about their product roadmap. This presentation was extremely information dense compared to Chia’s usual fare and there is a lot to talk about. I am going to break the AMA down into…
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Chris is an experience IT professional with decades of experience primarily focused on datacenter infrastructure, cloud infrastructure and securing both. He had some involvement with Bitcoin many years ago and just recently got back into cryptocurrency with Chia. You can find him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/blaktron
Chia Network Roadmap Part 1 – Chia Asset Tokens
Last week the senior technical executives from Chia Network, Gene Hoffman, Bram Cohen and Paul Hainsworth, as well as J. Eckert moderating, hosted an Ask Me Anything about their product roadmap. This presentation was extremely information dense compared to Chia’s usual fare and there is a lot to talk about. I am going to break…
Chia Fork Silicoin makes silly choice and upsets community
Yesterday morning the developers of Silicoin announced a hard fork for their blockchain and a move from their testnet coin tSIT to their mainnet coin SIT. This has been understood to be on the way for some, although the original roadmap had more phases in between. But up until now the Silicoin farming community had…
The current state of Chia Forks
I have been covering Chia Forks since the first couple launched, Flax and ChainGreen. It has been an interesting journey, with a wide spectrum of folks launching their own coins based on Chia Network’s code. Some of them, like Flax, did not monkey with consensus or make any changes, and some did. At one point…
Chia Pool AZPool announces shut down with no notice
Chia Pool AZPool has posted a message to their website and discord announcing they are shutting down immediately and offering less than a week of support to their farmers. They don’t give a reason but my guess, based on the rapid nature of the shutdown, is cost. I have written about the economic challenges of…
Chia Blockchain 1.2.7 released, very minor fix
Chia Network has released version Chia Blockchain 1.2.7 on github and for download on their website tonight. This release looks like a very minor bug fix for the ambitious 1.2.6 release with only a single fix for creating a new wallet. Apparently in 1.2.6 there was a chance that it would give you 25 words…
What’s so special about NFTs? Guest Post by ChiaFarmers
I have to admit, I don’t really get NFTs. I understand what they are, how they work, where to buy them, how to trade them. But I don’t get the “why”. Recently a Chia farmer and fan going by ChiaFarmers ran a contest handing out his “Farmers of Chialisp” collection on OpenSea, and he was…
Does Chia have a Solana problem?
Yesterday the mostly-centralized cryptocurrency Solana suffered a DDOS attack with too many transactions and their validator network got stuck. From my understanding it caused some nodes to miss some transactions and ended up created multiple competing blockchains. You can read about it here. As of right now the network is back up, and the price…
Chia Network will be hosting another AMA
Chia Network has just announced that they will be doing another Ask Me Anything on Zoom and YouTube, this time focused on their product roadmap. This AMA will be hosted by founder Bram Cohen and the VP of Product Paul Hainsworth. There was a lot of interest in this topic in the last AMA, so…
Chia NFTs are coming in a big way
Chia NFTs are coming, and soon, to our blockchain a in a big way. I think because of the no-fee structure and green marketing, the Chia Blockchain is a perfect fit for artists looking to mint NFTs and try and sell them. The first NFT has been minted and there are a couple of contests…
