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…
Category: Discussion
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…
The Chia meme game is on fire
The Chia community has really stepped up its meme game coming into 2022; the hype being built on Twitter now is starting to explode. Lots of firsts and lots to brag about coming into the new year has set off a firestorm of community driven content online. It seems the community’s relative happiness has directly…
A rebuttal to my Chia light wallet rant
Dan Perry and Roy Natian of Chia Network have just published a blog post on the official Chia blog explaining some of the issues I identified in my rant about the Chia light wallet, and detailing out their roadmap to fix others. It is worth the read if that rant resonated with you. I still don’t think…
Chia News of the Week – Dec 27 to Jan 9
Well it looks like I missed a Chia News of the Week post last week, which probably isn’t the end of the world considering how slow the news was over the Christmas holidays. I hope everyone had a lovely break, and got to do all the family-seeing and time-spending they wanted to. Many of us…
Chia vs Bitcoin – a Twitter story
One of the most frustrating things about being part of the Chia community is watching people opine on Twitter about the benefits of Bitcoin, while handwaving away the energy cost. Or even worse, calling the energy use a feature instead of a bug. It needs to be said that Satoshi did not anticipate what Bitcoin…
Chia’s first Twitter Spaces Sunday Happy hour
This Sunday at 11pm eastern time the twitter Chia community had a low key twitter space meet up hosted by: @dylanmrose and @KyleLogiks, co hosted by @LebanonJon with a late speaking appearance by @bramcohen himself. Make sure to follow all these fine gentlemen on twitter if you are not already. Now admittedly I didn’t pay…
Why is the Chia Light wallet so bad?
First off, I want to say that the Chia Light wallet is currently in beta, and I shouldn’t be using it for production work. That part is on me. But at the same time, it is the only way to interface with CATs, although a browser extension wallet is being developed. So when I made…
