**Additional threats have been made by Chia Networks. It is becoming clear that their intention here is to bully me into capitulation.** *** Update to the story, my lawyer has responded to Chia Networks *** This morning I received a threatening, albeit friendly, email from the Head of IP for the Chia Network claiming that…
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
Secure Farming Section launched
We have officially launched the Secure Farming section of our site, with advice on Threat Modelling and mitigating threats to your Chia wallets already there. We will be adding content like Network Security, System Security and Segmented farming in the near future. Check it out!
Chia Network crosses 10 Exabytes Netspace
Today the Chia Network has crossed 10 Exabytes, or 10 000 Petabytes, or 10 000 000 Terabytes, of network space plotting and farming for Chia. This netspace explosion has happened far faster than anticipated and is simply incredible to watch. Try and picture even 1 exabyte. That is 1000 Petabytes. At normal datacenter density, one…
TBW and SSD Lifetimes
Since Chia was announced there has been a huge focus on how quickly it destroys SSDs, and how fast they will reach their TBW or Tera Bytes Written thresholds. While this is true, and the amount of writes are very high it is still unlikely to kill a drive in a couple of weeks. Possible,…
Chia 1.1.6 Released
The newest version of the Chia Blockchain software has been released, and is available for download here. The biggest changes are too the Peer to Peer node discovery process, with DNS introducers added which should allow signficantly faster node sync time. The full release notes are available here. As always, be careful when you update…
What is Chia?
Chia is a cryptocurrency based on blockchain database technology that uses a “proof of space and time” protocol to verify transactions on the blockchain, unlike other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum that use “proof of work” to verify their transactions.
