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….
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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…
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…
