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…
Author: Chris Dupres
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
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…
Chia blockchain 1.3.3 released – OpenSSL fix didn’t work on Windows
Update: this post contains a claim that Chia did not properly test the release on Windows. It turns out that is not true, and I conducted my own tests with 1.3.2 on Windows and came to the same conclusion they made when doing the release – that OpenSSL was fixed. You can see that here….
Chia and the 2022 European Anti Money Laundering package
This week the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and the Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) of the European Union voted overwhelmingly to instill strong new regulations on cryptocurrency transactions, with no minimum limit, as part of their new anti money laundering package. This is first of its kind regulation in a major economy…
Chia Network releases emergency update to address OpenSSL vulnerability
Chia Network has just released version 1.3.2 of the Chia Blockchain software to address a critical OpenSSL vulnerability that has the potential to cause outages for anyone running a node on the old version. It is very strongly suggested everyone update immediately. The OpenSSL vulnerability was identified more than two weeks ago, and it seems…
A new direction for The Chia Plot
Regular readers of The Chia Plot might be wondering where I have been for the past month. The content has been very light recently, and even though there has been a lot going on the Chia community, I haven’t been around to cover it. Except I have been around, just working on something new. Starting…
The Chia NFT space is starting to stretch its legs
I haven’t been as focused on the Chia ecosystem in the last couple weeks due to some family commitments and a general need to get some stuff done. But the Chia ecosystem certainly wasn’t waiting for me because the developments coming out of the Chia NFT scene – even before there really is one –…
