So after my conversation with Gene about the Windows client, why they made the choices they made and what could be done to improve it (and a few things that I was wrong about in terms of specific behaviour), I decided to create a community project to commission the development of an enterprise ready Windows…
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Chia Fork Melati Network (XMX) is a team with ambition
With all the focus right now on the Chia forks drawing the ire of Chia Network, specifically the ChiaDogeCoin situation and presumably DogeChia, ChiaRose and ChiaLite, I thought I would take a look at another small fork called Melati, or Jasmine, that has not gotten much attention yet. Hendrik from The Chia Plot discord thought…
ChiaDogeCoin’s side of the Chia trademark issues
Yesterday I had the opportunity to reach out to the developer of ChiaDogeCoin to get their take on the enforcement strategy that Chia Network is beginning against them for their use of the Chia trademark. The developer goes by ChrisEvan on Discord and he is definitely pissed off. In our conversation he makes it quite…
Should Chia Network be supporting the Chia Fork ecosystem more?
With the recent trademark action against Chia forks that use Chia in their name, specifically ChiaDogeCoin, a number of Chia community members have approached me with an idea and I think it is a good one. Here is my version of that idea. The idea is that Chia Network in general, or Bram Cohen in…
Chia Network is enforcing trademark against Chia Forks
Edit: I reached out to the ChiaDogeCoin developer and got their side of the story here. Chia Network has begun attempting to enforce their CHIA trademarks against the developers of certain Chia Fork altcoins. In their keybase channel today Gene indicated that they are prepared to go as far as to try and seize domains…
All about Pools – OpenChia, spitting fire right out of the gate
In the latest entry into my All about Pools series here, I had a chance to get some insight into OpenChia, a pool whose value proposition in complete transparency. More than that, however, they launched their pool with a Reddit post insinuating that other pools cannot be trusted because their back-end code is not open…
Chialisp training camp begins August 9th with Bram Cohen
In a press release to Coin Telegraph today, Sirius Labs and Chia Network have announced their Chialisp training camp in preparation for the Hackathon being promoted by Sirius Labs and various influencers. Most importantly we have new dates for the delayed Hackathon. The training camp, really just some documentation plus a zoom call and some…
Is downloading the Chia blockchain OK to do to speed up sync?
This is actually a really tough question. And the answer really is: it depends. Like all security questions it has to start with a threat model: what are you afraid of happening. In order to do that we have to first understand the risks and benefits of downloading an unverified Chia blockchain. The benefits are…
Trying to sell some ChainGreen on the Forks.green Chia Fork Exchange
After yesterday’s news of a Chia Fork Exchange launching called Forks.Green I had to check this out for myself. Yesterday Hendrik from my discord channel was able to successfully sell a Flax coin (1 XFX) and exit with almost 0.01 XCH. So I wanted to see if I could move some ChainGreen that I had…
Are Chia Pools a profitable enterprise?
Edit: I originally published this article with a very boneheaded mistake at 10% fees instead of 1%. The situation is MUCH starker than originally laid out. This has been corrected. With the recent shut down of Pool Garden, and a very strange thread on ChiaForum.com about Chia pools fudging their numbers (doesn’t look like they…
Chia Fork exchange launches called Forks.Green
Update: The original article indicated a trade fee of 1%. This is not correct, the correct fee is 0.1% on trades and nothing on withdrawal. My apologies to forks.green. If you thought Gate.io and OkEX were sketchy wait until you get a load of this. Its called Forks.Green and it is a barebones automatic exchange…