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…
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Let’s talk about BLS signatures
In a bit of a mini-rant on Twitter, Bram Cohen has announced that Chia Network is using a legacy implementation of BLS Signatures (v2) where the new draft (v4) implements a slightly updated mechanism for generating private keys from seed phrases. I took some time to talk to Earle Lowe, developer at Chia Network, in…
Weekly Chia Newsletter by XCH Weekly
A few people have reached out to me over the 8 months of writing The Chia Plot to express interest in a weekly newsletter. A Chia newsletter is a great idea, and I have hummed and hawed about it, but now I don’t have to. Because an unknown set of people (or unknown to me…
Chia Database upgrade – process and results
One of the biggest upgrades in the recent Chia Blockchain 1.3 beta that was just released is the ability to upgrade the v1 Chia Database to v2. The promise here was pretty extreme with Chia promising “approximately 45%” space reduction. That’s quite the promise, so let’s see if it holds up. First, don’t do this…
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…
The Museum of Dead Chia Forks – SporkSwap
With the CAT Cambrian Explosion going on and the loss of focus from Chia Forks to Chia Asset Tokens, a number of the less well populated Fork communities are starting to disappear. But that leaves a pretty significant issue for the owners of those mostly worthless tokens – what to do with them? Well, in…
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…
Space Marmots successfully encodes a Marmot directly to the Chia Blockchain
In another major milestone for the Space Marmots project and the Chia blockchain, we have successfully encoded a 256×256 Space Marmot PNG image directly onto Chia’s testnet10 blockchain. This was one of the core promises of the project and the completion of this Proof of Concept shows that we are able to execute on that…
DeFi on Chia – A brief overview
So, first I want to preface this by saying my experience with DeFi in general is pretty limited. I haven’t used any of the major platforms like Uniswap or Sushiswap or any of these liquidity pool / token etc systems. And I don’t really have any desire to, mostly out of a lack of trust….
