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…
Tag: plotting
Phison releasing write-intensive SSDs focused on Chia Plotting
Jonmichael Hands (Storage_JM) from Chia Decentral and Chia Network’s VP of Storage has put out an interview with the CTO of Phison, Sebastion Jean, going over their new high-write consumer SSD platform line-up they are going to begin selling through their partner’s soon. The SSD platform’s will be called the Maker and Maker Pro lineups…
Full step by step guide on plotting for pools with Mad Max
YouTuber Darwing has just posted an excellent step-by-step guide to plotting to an NFT for pools with the Mad Max plotter. He goes through the entire process, from start to finish and doesn’t miss a single requirement from what I can tell. He even mentions that you must have your wallet fully synced before starting…
My farming setup
There are as many farming setups and opinions on farming setups as there are farms, and this is true in traditional farming as well as Chia farming. Most people seem to be gravitating to one of two paradigms, high powered systems with lots of compute, ram and NVME storage for plotting as fast as possible…
A fork of Mad Max plotter is claiming GPU support and 10 second plots
Update Thank you again to keybase user computer_whisperer for looking through the repo provided for the “gpu plotter” and pointing it is a bunch of merge-pulls and readme changes. This means it doesn’t look like the author made any significant updates beyond a reskin. Seems like a giant nothingburger out to take your money. Original…
We have our answers about the Mad Max plotter – is it safe and is it better?
Update: Custom Computing has put out a guide for Mad Max plotting with NFT / Portable Plots for Chia Pools Now that it has been a few weeks it is time for an update to the Mad Max plotter and the question to “is it safe?”. The answer seems to be yes. It has received…
Chia Team details math on plotting speed and blockchain security
The Chia Team had a Zoom call this evening to discuss what the rapidly improved plotting speed we are seeing from the Mad Max plotter and the theoretical increases that could come with GPU plotting. The gist of it is that is more complicated than just plotting quickly and that throwing 100s of watts at…
Excellent Github post on GPU plotting – with math!
Keybase and GitHub user computer_whisperer has been hard at work detailing out the mathematical reality of whether there is current risk to k32 posts with the rapid increase in plotting speed brought on by the “Mad Max plotter“. The Chia Network team will be addressing this tomorrow, but go ahead and read computer_whisperer’s theory here….
Questions about K-size and plotting software due to faster plotters
There are a lot of questions floating around on Reddit and on the official dev keybase channel about K-size recommendations and plotting software recommendations based on the advent of faster plotting software. A lot of these questions are directed to the development team directly. Questions like if they are recommending 3rd party software are a…
Mad Max plotter – much faster, but be careful
Updated: We have our answers at this point, Yesterday we posted news about the Mad Max plotter, and how Chia Network may end up merging it into the official chia-blockchain repo, This is extremely good news, and we could definitely use a faster plotter. However. The Chia team (nor anyone else) has not, to my…
