The big release we have all been waiting for is here – Chia Blockchain 1.3 has been finalized and released, and as of this writing the installers are being prepared for upload. This is a major version and there is a lot changed. (edit downloads are available) Most of the big changes were released in…
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The Roadmap to the Marvelous Marmot Kingdom
Editor’s Note: This is an article published in full without edit from Andreas Greimel, who goes by Acevail on Discord. I believe Marvelous Marmots is a viable project so in order to prevent a conflict of interest with my project Space Marmots I have offered this team, and any other serious NFT project the space…
Hashgreen gets a Chia Cultivation Grant
The developers at Hashgreen, the Chia development studio behind Mojodice and the Hashgreen DeX have announced that they have received a Chia Cultivation Grant for their work on the Hashgreen DeX (I presume). This is exciting news for the community. In a post on their website, one of the project co-founders, made this statement “The…
Costa Rica announces that Chia Network will be its climate blockchain technology partner
Costa Rica and Chia Network have just announced via press release that they will be partnering on an open source software platform to share with other nations in order to improve the management of their climate inventory software. This announcement comes just days after the announcement that the World Bank had selected Chia as their…
Arbor Wallet now available on iOS and Android
Update: It has come to our attention that Arbor as currently configured is sending is not decentralized and signs transactions on their web server with the wallet’s private key. They have committed to fixing this but you should be aware. According to a discord post, and the fact that I have downloaded and installed it,…
Chia Blockchain 1.2.7 released, very minor fix
Chia Network has released version Chia Blockchain 1.2.7 on github and for download on their website tonight. This release looks like a very minor bug fix for the ambitious 1.2.6 release with only a single fix for creating a new wallet. Apparently in 1.2.6 there was a chance that it would give you 25 words…
Something is going on with Chives Coin
Its a big sea of Chia forks out there, and it can be hard to stand out from the crowd. In a lot of people’s minds, or at least mine, it really did seem like it was Flax then and everyone else. And the common wisdom was that changing the plot style from Chia would…
BladeBit plotter finishes plots in 5 or 6 minutes
Earlier today The Poor Investor posted a video on his YouTube channel with Mike, a real OG farmer who definitely knows what he is doing, showing him complete a plot in under 5 and a half minutes using a really hardcore plotter called Bladebit by Harold B. This is simply insane. I do not have…
Bram Cohen releases blog post on his vision for DeFi in Chia
Just tonight Bram Cohen and the Chia Network team have released this blog post on their vision for Decentralized Finance – DeFi – on the Chia blockchain. It is a very good read, and well written, and explains the difference between singleton/NFTs and coloured coins. This is not something I knew before, and it is…
Finally a straight answer about the pre-farm
There have been a lot of questions, and a fair few number of confused answers, about the Chia Network prefarm – 21 million XCH held in two wallets by the developers. Based on previous answers it appeared that Chia Network planned on using the prefarm as a capital supply for market makers to ensure liquidity,…
