One of the best new features of the Chia Blockchain 1.3 beta is the ability to migrate to version 2 of the Chia Database. This process is detailed here. But one of the issues with this is that the database is already big and doing the migration actually consumes another 50% of space while its…
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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…
Facts About Farmers – Ronald’s Story
This time we have something really special. In this post, you don’t just get the story of a farmer, you’ll get the story of a family joining chia and an emerging software developer. Todays post is about Ronald aka BubbleTrouble, the developer of the openChia app (Get it on Android and iOS) and also another…
Facts About Farmers – Chia Pass Farm’s Story
It’s still not 2022 and we have another submission to our “Facts about Farmers” series. This time from Reality Itself. They are the bringer of the seedling emoji on twitter 🌱🌱🌱. If you have an interesting setup and want to have some internet fame please ping @speedmann#6896 on discord or let me know in one…
Facts About Farmers – Rolle’s Story
The Christmas holidays are barely over and we will continue our journey. Today it’s Rolle Royce’ time to shine. The first farmer we see to have upgraded his internal networking to 10gbit/s 🚀 This post is part of an article series about your farming setups. If you have an interesting setup and want to have…
Facts About Farmers – Hickelpickle’s Story
Let’s keep this rolling. Today we spotlight a hacky farm of Hickelpickle. I think you will really like his DIY approach. This post is part of an article series about your farming setups. If you have an interesting setup and want to have some internet fame please ping @speedmann#6896 on discord or let me know…
Facts About Farmers – John’s Story
Today we have another farmers story, by another John (Yes, this time ‘h’ included). This post is part of an article series about your farming setups. He is having a mid sized, customer grade Chia farm with a mix of internal and external HDDs. If you have an interesting setup and want to have some…
Facts About Farmers – Jon’s Story
Thank you to Jon for this idea again and for participating in the interview. See what his story is here. This Article is part of a Series about your farming stories called Facts about Farmers. Check out the first in the series here. If you have an interesting setup and want to have some internet…
Facts About Farmers – Speedmann’s Story
Inspired by a 6PB Farmer with a distributed farming setup @Jon from our very own discord suggested to write about some of our farming setups we all have. If everything will go according to my plan, this will become an article series about how different people choose to farm chia, which difficulties they had on…
Chia farming can be a real chore
Cue the smallest violin in the world. This piece will be called “Rant in C major”. Recently I have come into a ton of problems while farming chia. Admittedly my setup is not the most effective and running Windows period could be considered sacrilegious when it pertains to the chia sphere. (editor’s note: I run…
