Chia Network has just released version 1.2.3 of the Chia Blockchain application. This is a much bigger release than the previous version 1.2.2 and contains some much needed fixes, both on the front end and on the back end. Most importantly it allows you to change your Pool payout address from the GUI, hopefully while…
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What is a “plot NFT” in Chia?
**Update** If you are looking for information on artistic NFTs on the Chia Blockchain this is a good starting point. You might hear the term “pool NFT” or “plot NFT” or “singleton” as it relates to pools in Chia. But what is an NFT in this context? Or any context. An NFT is a Non-Fungible…
Thoughts about Chia from China
The following is a guest post written by Yilin He, or Chia in China from Twitter, who is a Chinese Chia farmer and has some really fascinating thoughts about the differences in attitudes between the Western farmers and our counterparts across the world. I have left the article mostly alone, and the author definitely speaks…
The Chia Plot is being translated into Chinese
This is frankly incredible, and I am very much on board as well as honoured. A Chia Plot reader going by Chia in China on Twitter has been diligently translating my site into Chinese. Check it out below, a translated copy of my post on Chia pools! I just want everyone reading this to know…
An argument for keeping your OG plots and not replotting
Yesterday I posted an article about an argument Flexpool was making in favour of everyone replotting and joining an on-chain pool. I still believe that is a good idea for the reasons listed out in that post, however there are some very good reasons why someone may not want to do that and we will…
Very detailed post on post-Proof of Work cryptocurrencies, including Chia
David Rosenthal has just posted an excellent writeup of the benefits and drawbacks to post-Proof of Work cryptocurrencies like Ethereum moving to Proof of Stake and Chia’s Proof of Space and Time. He really does nail the details I think, and its well worth a read if a realistic discussion on the pros and cons…
FlexPool puts out a call to action to secure the Chia blockchain network
In a Reddit post today, FlexPool has put out a call to action to all Chia farmers, big and small, to help secure the Chia blockchain. In the post they lay out a very reasonable argument for leaving Hpool and the other OG pools behind, to ensure that Chia remains opensource and to prevent the…
BackBlaze report on Chia Farming profitability
Thank you to our friends at Neowin for pointing me in this direction, but Backblaze has posted an update to their adventures with Chia and come to a formal conclusion about the profitability of Chia farming for them. And they have concluded it is not profitable. This is one of the most efficient storage enterprises…
Let’s talk about Chia Forks
More and more Chia forks are popping up every day. We have Flax, which is still doing well and approaching 2 EiB in netspace. ChainGreen still seems to work for me. Spare, Chives, ChiaRose etc are not running in my lab anymore and I have no plans to move in production farming with them. I…
Chia Pools – A mini review
Thank you to MaxioPool, as well as a few other pools launching immediately into mainnet, I have spent the last couple days looking into the on-chain pooling protocol and looking at a few different pools, and I have some thoughts. Maxiopool was kind enough to let me into their testnet9 implementation so that I could…
