A couple of days ago I had a chance to briefly chat with one of the program managers for the Zuri Internship, or HNG Internship 8,but there were still a lot of questions about how and why they were using Chia. Despite being a VERY busy weekend for them, he once again took some time…
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Zuri Internship chooses the Chia Blockchain to run their payment program
Right now around 3000 students in the HNG Internship 8, operated by Zuri, are signing up for Nucle wallets to begin using XCH for their internship. It is kicking off this month to help teach people around the world how to become experienced coders virtually around the world in a fun setting. They will assign…
People are losing Chia farming rewards – make sure you aren’t one of them
If you spend any time in the Chia focused communities, like Reddit or the discord servers managed by the Chia Pools, you will see a re-occurring problem come up that people have while Chia farming for on chain pools. People on the new on-chain pools are farming blocks but not receiving their 0.25xch. It looks…
All about Pools – LetsFarm, a legitimate German pool
In today’s All about Pools I am focusing on Letsfarm.io, a German pool who seems to share a lot of the same values as I do with The Chia Plot, and when choosing a pool. Letsfarm is focused quite a bit on trust as their selling model and they think that having proper tax registration…
Excellent video on optimizing Mad Max Chia plotter by Digital Spaceport
Digital Spaceport has just released a great video on optimizing the Mad Max Chia plotter on a really normal human computer. He is using a Ryzen 5 3600 6 core CPU with 32GB of RAM and SATA hard drives stripped together. This is a really reasonable system for people to be plotting on (its quite…
Chia Network launches Chia Cultivation Grant to help fund community projects
In an announcement on their official blog today Chia Network has launched their Chia Cultivation Grant to foster development in the Chia ecosystem. Managed by J. Eckert, VP of Ecosystem Operations, the Grant is designed to get worthwhile software projects off the ground with a cash infusion of $30 000 USD to $250 000 USD….
Was forks.green a rug pull? It’s back up but all records are lost.
The forks.green developer has restarted the site, but accounts are gone and people who had coins in the site have lost their coins. Getting information about what happened is difficult because the developer is Russian and there hasn’t been a lot of English language information coming directly. Its not a good look. Basically it looks…
ChiaDoge Chia Fork decides to changes their name to CryptoDoge
ChiaDoge has announced via their Discord server that they have indeed decided on a new name and have decided to go with CryptoDoge. They will be keeping the same symbol for their coin (XCD) and will be releasing new software and restarting the blockchain. Basically the trademark issues with Chia Network have caused this project…
Is a trading service for Chia Forks called YakuSwap the first real Chialisp application?
I think the first real ChiaLisp application by a 3rd party, at least the first one I am aware of, is YakuSwap. This is really interesting and I am going to be looking into this more, but according to a blog post by the creator it looks like he has levered ChiaLisp to create a…
Forks.green Chia Fork Exchange is down, possibly hacked
It looks like the Forks.green Chia Fork Exchange has gone down again with very little communication to its userbase. There isn’t any official information I can find, but I am told that the issue is that the website was hacked and the transaction database encrypted and ransomed, with the ransomer asking for 0.15 BTC which…
