Chia Founder Bram Cohen recently did an interview on Son of a Tech on a number of topics, but primarily on the 21 million coins that are not in circulation and held by Chia Networks, commonly known as the “prefarm”. The interview was really well done, and did not let Bram off the hook for…
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Chia Netspace crosses 14eb
This is wild people. Even with a big slowdown and reversal today, the netspace has just crossed 14 Exabytes. This is a 1000 petabytes since our last post on this subject. Just wild.
Chia Netspace slowdowns
The last few days have seen some serious slowdowns, and setbacks in the Chia netspace growth. It is still growing VERY rapidly, with an extra three Exabytes being added over the last 4 or so days, but these blips are definitely slowing that growth. It is unclear what is causing them, and due to the…
3rd party plotting software in works
Reddit user u/HugoMaxwell has posted a very interesting project he is working on that is designed to radically improve the speed of plotting, with the stated goal of getting a proper GPU plotter working. The claims made in the reddit thread are quite interesting, and I will be following this project closely. HugoMaxwell claims to…
Portable Plots delayed
Although we were originally told that portable plots, plots that would allow for pooled farming, would be coming at the end of May it appears that there will be a delay into June according to developers on the Chia Keybase channel. The new plotting code should be available for testnet soon, but we will all…
Chia Netspace crosses 13 EiB
Just 2 days after crossing 12 EiB netspace, and even with a drastic downturn for most of a day, the Chia Netspace has crossed 13EiB. Continuing with the extremely rapid assent, an additional 10 million plots have been plotted in the last 2 days. Incredible progress. Kudos to the Chia Development team.
The security risk of running unvetted code
The rapid rise of Chia has led to a gold rush of developers trying to build tools and automation scripts to help with their own setups and to share with the community. Most of this will be safe, and we will be hosting and recommending some here. However there will be some that have malicious…
A discussion on Chia Netspace growth
As of this writing the Chia Netspace is about to cross 12 EiB, and when you are reading this it likely already has. This is an incredible amount of data, and the rate of growth is absolutely monstrous and I don’t think anyone, including myself, is going to be able to predict what the growth…
More legal threats from the Chia Network
After my previous post, I made a number of small changes to the site in order to ensure that there is no confusion created for my visitors. After making these changes I sent the following email the Chia Network’s Head of IP that had previously emailed me. Hi , I have added “unofficial” to the tag…
Why The Chia Plot won’t take a Chia Networks Inc License
Earlier today I received an email from Chia Networks’ Head of IP that demanded I either accept a trademark usage license or change the name of our blog. When I posted about this topic this morning on Reddit it generated a lot of good discussion. A lot of commenters either recommended that I just take…
