We have been quiet the last couple of weeks, but we have not been idle. We have been working on a lot of the back-end processes and have made quite a bit of progress. We are not yet in a position to release everything, but a lot of it is in the polish stage and…
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
Chia News of the Week – Feb 14 to Feb 22
This one is again a little late, but there was some big Chia news that hit in the last week or so and I didn’t want it to fall to the wayside. Nothing quite as big as the week before the with release of the Chia Blockchain 1.3 beta, but big nonetheless. Also this is…
OpenSea NFT attack and Chia’s UTXO coin model
The Internet is currently on fire because of what is being described as an “OpenSea exploit”, but was really an OpenSea NFT attack, where people are losing their NFTs off the platform to an unknown attacker. As of writing there have been dozens of victims to this attack, but contrary to initial reports it does…
Let’s talk about BLS signatures
In a bit of a mini-rant on Twitter, Bram Cohen has announced that Chia Network is using a legacy implementation of BLS Signatures (v2) where the new draft (v4) implements a slightly updated mechanism for generating private keys from seed phrases. I took some time to talk to Earle Lowe, developer at Chia Network, in…
Massive update to Goby Wallet
One of the most anticipated projects in the Chia ecosystem right now, by users and developers alike, is a full featured browser extension Chia wallet. The closest we have come so far is Goby Wallet, and today it received a massive update. You can check it out here on the Chrome Web Store. Right now…
Weekly Chia Newsletter by XCH Weekly
A few people have reached out to me over the 8 months of writing The Chia Plot to express interest in a weekly newsletter. A Chia newsletter is a great idea, and I have hummed and hawed about it, but now I don’t have to. Because an unknown set of people (or unknown to me…
Chia Introduces CHIP – CHia Improvement Proposals
In a blog post on the Chia Network official blog, Chia has laid out the CHia Improvement Proposal process, similar in principle to the Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP). This is going to be a mechanism for all of us folks, not part of Chia Network but part of the Chia network to help steer the…
Chia finally creates forum other than keybase
Chia Network has finally launched a mechanism for communication with the team other than Keybase. They actually did this last week but I am, of course, behind on everything. What they have built is a forum ChiaDevs, primarily aimed towards developers and that looks an awful lot like ChiaForum.com. Because its been a few days…
Chia News of the Week – Feb 7 to Feb 13
The last week has been a real big one for Chia Network and the Chia community. There wasn’t a ton of Chia news, but the news we got was prety big. Last week ended with Chia hosting another information-dense AMA and that’s where we will begin today, but that was certainly not the end of…
How to move your Chia Database to a new disk
One of the best new features of the Chia Blockchain 1.3 beta is the ability to migrate to version 2 of the Chia Database. This process is detailed here. But one of the issues with this is that the database is already big and doing the migration actually consumes another 50% of space while its…
