What a week for Chia, as we saw it being represented in 3 large Twitter spaces last Thursday alone. The word is slowly starting to get out finally; we are starting to see some of the fruition of the larger picture of where Chia will be going over the next few years. It is still…
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Growth of the Chia ecosystem
Right now the Chia ecosystem is going through a very strange phase. On the one hand the application ecosystem of tools built on top of the platform is starting to explode. On the other, the number of nodes and netspace is dropping as well as a general decline in participation for what we would call…
Flexpool takes principled stand against Russian aggression
In a message on various subreddits, Ethereum and Chia pool Flexpool has announced that they will be halting all services to Russian IPs and kicking off their Russian miners and farmers because of the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine. I did not want to get political on my site yesterday. I have a lot of…
I accidentally installed over my Chia client
Last night Chia Network announced that they had released a new version of their 1.3 beta Chia client. This is the 3rd release in a short period of time, and really shows a dedication to producing usable software for the community. I am quite pleased with how the release management process is going. But of…
A brief review of the Chia Blockchain 1.3 beta
Yesterday Chia Network released a beta version of the Chia Blockchain 1.3 and there are a lot of changes. Chia is recommending that people not replace their main farming node with this version yet, so I did not. But I think I will soon. It is a big improvement. I have traditionally not been kind…
Hardware wallets won’t solve all your problems
(Editor’s note: The following is a guest post from friend of the site UKMayhem about an important security topic he wanted to bring to the Chia Community even though it isn’t strictly Chia-related. Yet.) Some of the older crowd within the crypto scene may remember a name. That name is Joe Grand others may know…
A quick review of the February Chia Network AMA
This Chia AMA took me a little bit to get through due to bad timing with some personal stuff going on, but there was a lot of news that came through in this one. To get the elephant in the room dealt with, yes Gene took a friendly swipe at me, no I don’t care….
A stroll through the Chives coin ecosystem
Whenever I talk about Chia forks there is always one team that is consistently releasing new services for their blockchain users. Well, two. But the one specifically I am referring to here is Chives. Chives coin is a Chia fork that disallows co-farming, meaning that you need to bring your own plots specifically for Chives…
The importance of choosing partners – a Stably story
A few months ago I wrote a piece about Chia and how important it was for them to choose partners in the future after the mess with Sirius. That was a warning about the risk of partnering with new, unproven or smaller companies like Stably and how they would inevitably end up spending their own…
What have the Chia Forks been up to?
Since the release of the light wallet and Chia Asset Tokens (CATs) there has been a general loss of focus on the Chia forks ecosystem. Most of the general activity has been around the CAT Cambrian explosion and all the different varieties becoming available. But, for better or for worse, the Chia Forks are hard…
