This is kind of neat, and not critical to the future of Chia or the price of your XCH, but some SpaceFarmers.io Chia Pool members have taken it among themselves to try and noticeably affect the rate of BlueBox timelord compactification. And they have. So what is going on is on the SpaceFarmers discord server,…
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Chia Network turning the Bluebox timelords back up to 11
A few weeks ago there a blip in the Chia Network caused by Bluebox timelords compressing too many blocks and overloading some full nodes. After that event Chia turned them off, released version 1.2.6 and promised in an AMA to let us know when they were going to turn them on again. Well, they are…
Did Chia Network DDOS the network with Bluebox timelords?
Last week there were reports from a number of pools about a DDOS attack on them, as well as reports of a memory leak coming from all corners. It appears the core of a lot of these issues was Chia Network bringing online a number of Bluebox Timelords to handle VDF compression using an update…
Bluebox Timelords and what they mean for you
Right now there are a group of Chia users running Timelord nodes configured as “bluebox timelords” that are spending their CPU cycles to help all of us. What are these special Timelords? Well, what they are is a set of Timelord nodes configured to go through the existing blocks of the blockchain and “compactify it”…
