Chia Network has released the next major milestone in their software evolution – version 1.4.0. This one is particularly special as it brings the long awaited DID and NFT standards to the Chia Blockchain. As always, you can download the latest version here and check out the release notes here. Because of my association and…
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Chia launches their NFT standard for non fungible tokens – NFT1
Chia Network Inc has announced via tweet and press release their Non Fungible Token (NFT) standard called, creatively, NFT1. This is the standard outlined in CHIP-0005 as discussed here and we are going to talk about the standard a little bit today. As this directly impacts me as part of the Space Marmots project, I…
Chia Network details plans for Non Fungible Tokens (NFT)
In a blog post released this evening, Chia Network has detailed out their plans for the NFT standard they will be releasing this year. This is of special interest to me and the Marmotverse team, so I paid very close attention. The most immediate piece of news is the phased approach. Chia will be releasing…
Chia Blockchain 1.3.5 released – Python 3.10 support included
Chia Network has just announced the release of Chia Blockchain 1.3.5, supporting the latest Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release. While I was away I saw that there was some chatter around not working on the latest version of Ubuntu. Normally I would use this as an excuse to take a swipe at using Python instead of…
Twitter TMA Thursday at 3pm EST – Tell Me Anything
As part of getting back into my routine and life from the upset it has seen recently, I am going to dedicate myself to at least an hour of Chia a day going forward. But that is not nearly enough to catch up on everything that has happened. There’s a new wallet? What? See, I’m…
Chia introduces new dashboard site
Chia has just launched dashboard.chia.net to show off some of the data they have, until now, just been teasing on AMAs and on Keybase. It is a publicly accessible grafana dashboard connected to a database populated by their open source tools. From what I can tell anyone should be able to collect the data and…
Chia blockchain 1.3.3 released – OpenSSL fix didn’t work on Windows
Update: this post contains a claim that Chia did not properly test the release on Windows. It turns out that is not true, and I conducted my own tests with 1.3.2 on Windows and came to the same conclusion they made when doing the release – that OpenSSL was fixed. You can see that here….
Chia and the 2022 European Anti Money Laundering package
This week the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and the Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) of the European Union voted overwhelmingly to instill strong new regulations on cryptocurrency transactions, with no minimum limit, as part of their new anti money laundering package. This is first of its kind regulation in a major economy…
Chia Network releases emergency update to address OpenSSL vulnerability
Chia Network has just released version 1.3.2 of the Chia Blockchain software to address a critical OpenSSL vulnerability that has the potential to cause outages for anyone running a node on the old version. It is very strongly suggested everyone update immediately. The OpenSSL vulnerability was identified more than two weeks ago, and it seems…
A new direction for The Chia Plot
Regular readers of The Chia Plot might be wondering where I have been for the past month. The content has been very light recently, and even though there has been a lot going on the Chia community, I haven’t been around to cover it. Except I have been around, just working on something new. Starting…
