Over the last couple of days we have seen some major mempool spikes on the Chia network, knocking farmers offline. Basically it looks similar, although not exactly, like the Chia dust storm a couple of months ago. Personally my farm has been knocked offline a couple of times, and the same is true for a…
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Thoughts on Chia Dust Storm Q&A
Earlier today the senior staff from the Chia Network technical team went to Zoom and YouTube for a post mortem of the Chia Dust Storm that caused a number of issues, especially for low powered farming hardware, on Halloween weekend. Overall the presentation was good, they clearly outlined what happened and even produced a couple…
Interview with the Chia Dust Stormer
Yesterday afternoon I put out a call, first on Keybase and then on the blog, offering to tell the Chia Dust Stormer’s side of the story. This morning that individual contacted me via one of the channels I published. I established the identity of the attacker cryptographically using a transaction to an address I have…
I want to talk to the person behind the Dust Storm
I would like to talk to the person behind the recent Chia Dust Storm and massive transaction wave. If that’s you, or you know who that is please point them to this article and encourage them to reach out to me. I will guarantee your anonymity even if Chia Network were to decide to pursue…
Chia Network makes official promise to optimize nodes after Dust Storm
After the Dust Storm on the weekend, Chia Network is calling it an “anonymous tester”, they have published an update on their Github about what happened and how they plan on responding. The tdlr is that about 20% of nodes were affected in one way or another, either directly through performance issues or by being…
Update to the Chia Dust Storm situation
Chia Network has just posted an official response to the Chia Dust Storm going on, the high volume of single mojo transactions. The update basically says that they aware of the problem, that they are going to shift resources from new features to optimization and that there isn’t anything to be done. Since mid afternoon…
