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…
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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…
Promises of Chia NFTs abound, but are they real?
Not all the projects popping up promising Chia NFTs in exchange for a CAT when the standard is released will actually deliver the goods. That is a hard reality, and possibly a bit anticompetitive considering my association with one of them, but it is sadly true. After Space Marmots launched its pre-sale so successfully there…
Why I think on-chain NFTs are simply better
Recently there has been some controversy in the Chia community over the Space Marmots decision to publish their NFTs directly to the blockchain. Bram Cohen himself was asked about it in a Twitter space and said “Just don’t do it”. I think that is a attitude born of not understanding the problem, which I am…
The CAT Cambrian Explosion – Attack of the Tokens
A few months ago in a set of predictions he has been eerily accurate about, Freddie from Chia Explorer predicted there would be a “CAT Cambrian explosion”, referring to the explosion of diversity of life on Earth about 541 million years ago. He was oh so right but still could not have predicted this. When…
First major sale using decentralized Chia offers mostly successful
Tuesday January 18th at 11am EST the Space Marmots project officially when live with a sale of SM1 tokens on OfferBin.io. You can read about the utility of the tokens and the project here. Full disclosure, I am a technical consultant for the Space Marmots project. We believe the sale was the first wide market…
