“I tell folks that a lot of people have lauded our GUI as the best in crypto and that may be true. That said, Bram and I consider it a piece of poo and is totally the minimum viable product we could ship!” This is the response I get from Gene Hoffman, President and COO…
Category: Security
Why separate your forks into different virtual machines?
With all the different Chia forks coming out right now, including Flax, ChainGreen, SpareCoin, ChiaRose and now Chives there are a lot of farmers right now with multiple blockchains running on the same machine farming the same plots. But is it safe? No. Not it is not. Even if all the applications are safe right…
How To Farm multiple Chia forks securely
This guide will instruct on how to use Windows to farm multiple Chia Forks from the same plots securely using Hyper-V. You will need about 4GB of RAM per fork. You can save some RAM by running multiple forks on a single VM as long as they kept distant from your Chia Farm. At the…
Chia Team details math on plotting speed and blockchain security
The Chia Team had a Zoom call this evening to discuss what the rapidly improved plotting speed we are seeing from the Mad Max plotter and the theoretical increases that could come with GPU plotting. The gist of it is that is more complicated than just plotting quickly and that throwing 100s of watts at…
Is there Qnap malware out there installing Chia and farming autonomously?
Thank to David Gerard who pointed me in this direction as there appears to be a Qnap NAS malware floating around that is installing Python 3.9 and Chia_full_node and farming scripts. It seems to use UPnP to open up port 32440 in your firewall if enabled, and then likely provides a remote shell enabling the…
