Reddit user u/HugoMaxwell has posted a very interesting project he is working on that is designed to radically improve the speed of plotting, with the stated goal of getting a proper GPU plotter working. The claims made in the reddit thread are quite interesting, and I will be following this project closely. HugoMaxwell claims to…
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Portable Plots delayed
Although we were originally told that portable plots, plots that would allow for pooled farming, would be coming at the end of May it appears that there will be a delay into June according to developers on the Chia Keybase channel. The new plotting code should be available for testnet soon, but we will all…
Chia Netspace crosses 13 EiB
Just 2 days after crossing 12 EiB netspace, and even with a drastic downturn for most of a day, the Chia Netspace has crossed 13EiB. Continuing with the extremely rapid assent, an additional 10 million plots have been plotted in the last 2 days. Incredible progress. Kudos to the Chia Development team.
The security risk of running unvetted code
The rapid rise of Chia has led to a gold rush of developers trying to build tools and automation scripts to help with their own setups and to share with the community. Most of this will be safe, and we will be hosting and recommending some here. However there will be some that have malicious…
A discussion on Chia Netspace growth
As of this writing the Chia Netspace is about to cross 12 EiB, and when you are reading this it likely already has. This is an incredible amount of data, and the rate of growth is absolutely monstrous and I don’t think anyone, including myself, is going to be able to predict what the growth…
More legal threats from the Chia Network
After my previous post, I made a number of small changes to the site in order to ensure that there is no confusion created for my visitors. After making these changes I sent the following email the Chia Network’s Head of IP that had previously emailed me. Hi , I have added “unofficial” to the tag…
Chia Network threatens The Chia Plot with trademark enforcement.
**Additional threats have been made by Chia Networks. It is becoming clear that their intention here is to bully me into capitulation.** *** Update to the story, my lawyer has responded to Chia Networks *** This morning I received a threatening, albeit friendly, email from the Head of IP for the Chia Network claiming that…
Secure Farming Section launched
We have officially launched the Secure Farming section of our site, with advice on Threat Modelling and mitigating threats to your Chia wallets already there. We will be adding content like Network Security, System Security and Segmented farming in the near future. Check it out!
Chia Network crosses 10 Exabytes Netspace
Today the Chia Network has crossed 10 Exabytes, or 10 000 Petabytes, or 10 000 000 Terabytes, of network space plotting and farming for Chia. This netspace explosion has happened far faster than anticipated and is simply incredible to watch. Try and picture even 1 exabyte. That is 1000 Petabytes. At normal datacenter density, one…
Chia 1.1.6 Released
The newest version of the Chia Blockchain software has been released, and is available for download here. The biggest changes are too the Peer to Peer node discovery process, with DNS introducers added which should allow signficantly faster node sync time. The full release notes are available here. As always, be careful when you update…
