Happy St Patrick’s Day everyone! A day of green to go with a new version of Chia. Thanks to the Chia Network team and their hard work we have a release with a number of fixes ready for the main Chia blockchain application. There have been a lot of complaints about annoying bugs in Chia…
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Climate Warehouse observer node is live
In an announcement on Keybase that was quickly deleted, the World Bank Climate Warehouse observer node that was announced last month is up and live. You can check it out here. There is also quite a bit of information available at the link posted in the announcement about how the system works. The observer node…
Growth of the Chia ecosystem
Right now the Chia ecosystem is going through a very strange phase. On the one hand the application ecosystem of tools built on top of the platform is starting to explode. On the other, the number of nodes and netspace is dropping as well as a general decline in participation for what we would call…
Chia Blockchain 1.3 released – No more wallet sync
The big release we have all been waiting for is here – Chia Blockchain 1.3 has been finalized and released, and as of this writing the installers are being prepared for upload. This is a major version and there is a lot changed. (edit downloads are available) Most of the big changes were released in…
Chia Advisors and board member launch competing blockchain called Espresso
According to an article at Techcrunch there might be some interesting stuff going on behind the scenes at Chia Network right now. Current (as of the last whitepaper update) Chia board member Jill Gunter, along with “Advisors” at Chia have started a competing blockchain project called Espresso. It is a privacy based project using zk-rollups…
Dexie.space launches as new Chia Decentralized Exchange
A new DeX (Decentralized Exchange) has launched in the Chia ecosystem named dexie.space. Like Offerbin, Offerpool and Hash.green it has a very simple interface and so far seems to work extremely well. It popped on my radar this weekend and I decided to check it out. When you browse to the site you are instantly…
Flexpool takes principled stand against Russian aggression
In a message on various subreddits, Ethereum and Chia pool Flexpool has announced that they will be halting all services to Russian IPs and kicking off their Russian miners and farmers because of the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine. I did not want to get political on my site yesterday. I have a lot of…
I accidentally installed over my Chia client
Last night Chia Network announced that they had released a new version of their 1.3 beta Chia client. This is the 3rd release in a short period of time, and really shows a dedication to producing usable software for the community. I am quite pleased with how the release management process is going. But of…
Chia Developer Clovyr Challenge winners
Chia Network has just announced the winners of their 24 hour Chia Developer Challenge they recently held with Clovyr. Even though this harkens back to the failed hackathon run by Sirius Labs many moons ago, it seems this one is not going that way. There was no mystery unclaimed super prize this time. Three winners…
World Bank Climate Warehouse Chia integration nearing deployment
In a message on Keybase Chia Network has confirmed that the Minimum Viable Product for the World Bank Climate warehouse is nearing release. This will be the first version of the technology layer that will underpin the global carbon credit market detailed in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. This is right on track for…
