Over the past few months, as the Chia blockchain has gotten a lot busier, many farmers have been having a ton of problems with their Chia full node. From database sync problems caused by power outages, to losing sync because of high transaction volume a lot of Chia farmers and services are having significant issues…
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Some thoughts on making Chia Fun Again
Yesterday Ryan Jerome, a writer for The Chia Plot, wrote a rant about his feelings about the r/chia subreddit and it sparked a bit of firestorm. It also sparked an almost immediate response from Chia Network that I believe misses the main point being made. The main points, and the one I think is the…
Food for Thought – FUD, Chia Price, and the r/chia problem
Chia is the same coin you started farming in the past year. Just an fyi. Through all the updates and changes; through all the people coming and going. It’s the same coin. Why all the FUD over price? It is so trivial to the overall success of the project in its current state. Chia Network…
Some thoughts on gambling in Chia
This article has been a long time coming, as it is becoming more and more prevalent. Gambling in Chia, and in cryptocurrency in general, is a pretty major – if controversial – use case. Yet lots of people are very against it and think that anonymous online gambling is a black mark on the industry,…
Is the first Chia soft fork imminent?
We talk a lot about Chia Forks around these parts, co-farming compatible plots is one of the selling points of Chia Network’s technology stack. But we might be looking at a different sort of fork coming up soon, one that participants of other blockchains might be more familiar with. The first Chia soft fork might…
Chia farming can be a real chore
Cue the smallest violin in the world. This piece will be called “Rant in C major”. Recently I have come into a ton of problems while farming chia. Admittedly my setup is not the most effective and running Windows period could be considered sacrilegious when it pertains to the chia sphere. (editor’s note: I run…
Chia Network AMA – Santa Gene edition
Yesterday Chia Network held their December Ask me Anything community meeting, likely the last for the year, and answered questions from Chia farmers and fans for about an hour. Unlike the last few that they held, there wasn’t anything specific this AMA was focused on, and it really was a free for all that we…
What are Trade Offers and why should you care?
Before mainnet launched the Chia wallet had a feature called Trade Offers which allowed for users to exchange XCH for Coloured Coins. This feature was removed and not much talked about. A commit to the new standalone wallet branch protocols_and_cats_rebased resurrected them (though the commit was promptly reverted by cmmarslender). A Trade Offer is a…
Further Explorations of the CAT standard
The communications about how CATs work are misleading at best and outright incorrect at worst. A naive reading of the CAT standard information published in the announcement on November 15th by Chia Network strongly implies that CATs are somehow akin to real world coins and metal wherein they can always be melted down and reshaped…
I want to build a BlueBox leaderboard and I need your help
With the recent attention on BlueBox Timelords and the discovery of the team at SpaceFarmers running a friendly community competition to compact blocks on the Chia blockchain I, and I think many others, have kicked up BlueBox timelords But with no reward, I think it might be a passing fad and go back to previous…
