Chia Network Inc has announced via tweet and press release their Non Fungible Token (NFT) standard called, creatively, NFT1. This is the standard outlined in CHIP-0005 as discussed here and we are going to talk about the standard a little bit today. As this directly impacts me as part of the Space Marmots project, I…
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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
Let the CHIPs fall where they may
Chia Network has recently updated the Github repository where they store their CHIPs (Chia Improvement Proposals) and added a few critical ones that will help define the state of Chia over the coming year. I am going to go through them one by one to help get myself, and everyone else, up to speed. CHIP-0001…
Happy Birthday to The Chia Plot
Exactly one year ago I published the very first post on The Chia Plot, called “What is Chia“. This was before I really knew what I was talking about, and in what has become a tradition on this site – let’s tear it to pieces and hurt the feelings of the person who created it….
The Great Crypto Crash – or this one at least
Wow. Its been hard to hold crypto the last little while. I haven’t been paying much attention recently due to family issues but I can say that every time I do take a look it hurts my heart a little. We dipped below $40 XCH today, not for the first time this week, and there…
Chia Network details plans for Non Fungible Tokens (NFT)
In a blog post released this evening, Chia Network has detailed out their plans for the NFT standard they will be releasing this year. This is of special interest to me and the Marmotverse team, so I paid very close attention. The most immediate piece of news is the phased approach. Chia will be releasing…
Chia Blockchain 1.3.5 released – Python 3.10 support included
Chia Network has just announced the release of Chia Blockchain 1.3.5, supporting the latest Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release. While I was away I saw that there was some chatter around not working on the latest version of Ubuntu. Normally I would use this as an excuse to take a swipe at using Python instead of…
Twitter TMA Thursday at 3pm EST – Tell Me Anything
As part of getting back into my routine and life from the upset it has seen recently, I am going to dedicate myself to at least an hour of Chia a day going forward. But that is not nearly enough to catch up on everything that has happened. There’s a new wallet? What? See, I’m…
Going through some things – an update
Hello to my patient readers, who have stayed with me through the past month of very little content. I believe I owe you an explanation for my absence, as well as an update on my thoughts about Chia. First the big news about Chia. I missed a post about a new release for the first…
Chia introduces new dashboard site
Chia has just launched dashboard.chia.net to show off some of the data they have, until now, just been teasing on AMAs and on Keybase. It is a publicly accessible grafana dashboard connected to a database populated by their open source tools. From what I can tell anyone should be able to collect the data and…
Does Chia test enough on Windows?
I don’t know. There, that was easy. Yesterday I wrote a post about the Chia 1.3.3 re-release to re-fix the OpenSSL vulnerability on Windows. I have had them tell me in the past they don’t test everything on Windows. For example, when I was trying to get their crawler to run I was told they…
