First, I would like to premise this with the fact that I am not a software developer or engineer. The team at Nucle is far better at this than I will ever be, and if they wanted to pull a fast one on me or obfuscate parts of their Chia wallet they easily could. This…
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How do unverified Chia Asset Tokens (CATs) work?
One of the big questions I have had since Chia Network officially launched their Chia Asset Tokens – CATs – is what the experience is like with an unverified CAT. We know that once Chia verifies a token (process is still unknown) it will show up in the Tokens section of the Light Wallet and…
Looking for Chia and Chia Fork ecosystem writers for The Chia Plot
So I have put out calls for help before, and some have answered that call. And I truly appreciate it, as there was no promise or anything for those folks and they have all done an excellent job. This is different though. This time I am offering two part time paid writing positions, amount paid…
Deep Dive into Hard Drive SMART Attributes
Recently Storage JM, Jonmichael Hands of Chia Network, gave an incredibly detailed overview of hard drive SMART attributes. This is something that is really poorly understood, even among a long of IT professionals, and a lot of assumptions are made about what the various values mean. Very similar to how TBW and write amplification is…
Timelord arms race caused netspace drop
So I have gotten a bit of additional clarity from the Chia Network team about the drop in netspace and pool netspace this weekend and the corresponding slight reduction in signage points. It seems that it was an arms race between the fastest timelord on the network and a new one coming online and fighting…
I got a Marmot Coin, and you can too
Recently Chia Network announced their new CAT standard, the token standard comparable to ERC20 for the Chia Blockchain, and the initial tokens launching were SpaceBucks and Marmot Coin. SpaceBucks is easy to get, you go to their website and use their faucet and they will send you a bunch. The real interesting one is Marmot…
Interview with the Chia Dust Stormer
Yesterday afternoon I put out a call, first on Keybase and then on the blog, offering to tell the Chia Dust Stormer’s side of the story. This morning that individual contacted me via one of the channels I published. I established the identity of the attacker cryptographically using a transaction to an address I have…
The hurdles to blockchain adoption – reliability
In my previous piece on the hurdles to blockchain adoption I spoke about PKI. The main takeaway is how many of the problems purported to be solved by blockchain based technologies can just as easily be solved with public key infrastructure or just an x509 certificate, as the actual lever being used is the public/private…
How to tell which Chia pools are faking netspace
An interesting result of the recent Dust Storm and issues with low powered clients is that MiningPoolStats right now has a pretty good indicator of which Chia pools are faking netspace and who is at least reporting automatically from their code. This is super fascinating to me and came to me via someone who would…
Update to the Chia Dust Storm situation
Chia Network has just posted an official response to the Chia Dust Storm going on, the high volume of single mojo transactions. The update basically says that they aware of the problem, that they are going to shift resources from new features to optimization and that there isn’t anything to be done. Since mid afternoon…
