Ever since the first public rumblings of Chia Networks and Bram Cohen’s new enterprise it has been wrapped in “green” marketing, to the point where if the average person knows one thing about Chia its that it is less wasteful than Bitcoin. It is named after a plant (salvia hispanica) after all, and one that…
Category: Discussion
Bluebox Timelords and what they mean for you
Right now there are a group of Chia users running Timelord nodes configured as “bluebox timelords” that are spending their CPU cycles to help all of us. What are these special Timelords? Well, what they are is a set of Timelord nodes configured to go through the existing blocks of the blockchain and “compactify it”…
The “0XCH club” and whining about winnings
This is going to be a short post, but the community seriously needs to stop whining at the Dev team about not having won multiple XCH after a month of farming. The #general chat on the Keybase channel is constantly full of people complaining to the developers that they havent won yet and offering “suggestions”…
Is it worth it to start farming?
This is a question being asked every day on every Chia forum on the internet. It is a good question, and it is hard to answer. The thing about Chia is that the win rate is a pure numbers game. There are so many changes (roughly 4608 a day) that the probability curve will even…
Bram Cohen on the Chia Prefarm
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…
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…
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…
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…
TBW and SSD Lifetimes
Since Chia was announced there has been a huge focus on how quickly it destroys SSDs, and how fast they will reach their TBW or Tera Bytes Written thresholds. While this is true, and the amount of writes are very high it is still unlikely to kill a drive in a couple of weeks. Possible,…
What is Chia?
Chia is a cryptocurrency based on blockchain database technology that uses a “proof of space and time” protocol to verify transactions on the blockchain, unlike other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum that use “proof of work” to verify their transactions.
