Today the Chia Plot forum is launching! There are sections for General discussion, support requests, all aspects of farming as well as the security implications behind a new blockchain and distributed network. No idea if anyone will use it, but we are totally independent from Chia Networks without any association, unlike many of the other…
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A Day with ChainGreen – My thoughts on the fork
A quick update on ChainGreen farming. It’s not all there yet. Not by a long shot. The TLDR is that you shouldn’t bother. Not yet at least. The ChainGreen team has been dealing with a number of issues associated with their blockchain, Yesterday there was a possibly malicious actor who was delaying updates to the…
What is ChainGreen and should you be farming it?
ChainGreen is a full fork of the Chia Blockchain open-source software released by the Chia Project. The claim here is that it is a less centralized implementation of the Chia software with less developer control over the market. They achieve this by changing the payout structure and not doing a pre-farm prior to the mainnet…
Chia netspace update – passes 24EiB and still climbing
The Chia Netspace has continued on its tear recently and crossed 24EiB today. The netspace growth has been rocky over the last few weeks, full of stops and starts and temporary decreases. It is unclear what is causing these hiccups, but what is clear is that the netspace continues to increase at an incredible rate….
The dangerous cult of personality around Bram Cohen and Chia
If you know one thing about Chia its that it is the hippie version of bitcoin. If you know two things about Chia the second is that it was founded / invented by Bram Cohen, the original developer of BitTorrent. I want to start this by saying that I have an immense respect for Bram…
Big updates to The Chia Plot
Today I am launching version 2.0 of The Chia Plot, with an updated theme and a lot of things working that were broken. I am abandoning Amp for the meantime, as it was causing issues with the menu button on mobile and I have migrated the site to bigger hardware to handle the additional load….
Chia Team details math on plotting speed and blockchain security
The Chia Team had a Zoom call this evening to discuss what the rapidly improved plotting speed we are seeing from the Mad Max plotter and the theoretical increases that could come with GPU plotting. The gist of it is that is more complicated than just plotting quickly and that throwing 100s of watts at…
Common misconceptions volume 1 blog post by Chia Network
Chia Network has posted a blog post to their site about common misconceptions that they are seeing over and over again in the Chia space. I agree with these. There is a lot of technological misunderstanding about this space, because the parts of the computer and how they are used is different. This very blog…
Is there Qnap malware out there installing Chia and farming autonomously?
Thank to David Gerard who pointed me in this direction as there appears to be a Qnap NAS malware floating around that is installing Python 3.9 and Chia_full_node and farming scripts. It seems to use UPnP to open up port 32440 in your firewall if enabled, and then likely provides a remote shell enabling the…
Excellent Github post on GPU plotting – with math!
Keybase and GitHub user computer_whisperer has been hard at work detailing out the mathematical reality of whether there is current risk to k32 posts with the rapid increase in plotting speed brought on by the “Mad Max plotter“. The Chia Network team will be addressing this tomorrow, but go ahead and read computer_whisperer’s theory here….
