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…
Category: Discussion
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.
