Exactly one year ago I published the very first post on The Chia Plot, called “What is Chia“. This was before I really knew what I was talking about, and in what has become a tradition on this site – let’s tear it to pieces and hurt the feelings of the person who created it….
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Chia Blockchain 1.3.5 released – Python 3.10 support included
Chia Network has just announced the release of Chia Blockchain 1.3.5, supporting the latest Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release. While I was away I saw that there was some chatter around not working on the latest version of Ubuntu. Normally I would use this as an excuse to take a swipe at using Python instead of…
Twitter TMA Thursday at 3pm EST – Tell Me Anything
As part of getting back into my routine and life from the upset it has seen recently, I am going to dedicate myself to at least an hour of Chia a day going forward. But that is not nearly enough to catch up on everything that has happened. There’s a new wallet? What? See, I’m…
Going through some things – an update
Hello to my patient readers, who have stayed with me through the past month of very little content. I believe I owe you an explanation for my absence, as well as an update on my thoughts about Chia. First the big news about Chia. I missed a post about a new release for the first…
Chia introduces new dashboard site
Chia has just launched dashboard.chia.net to show off some of the data they have, until now, just been teasing on AMAs and on Keybase. It is a publicly accessible grafana dashboard connected to a database populated by their open source tools. From what I can tell anyone should be able to collect the data and…
Chia, On the path to Success
What a week for Chia, as we saw it being represented in 3 large Twitter spaces last Thursday alone. The word is slowly starting to get out finally; we are starting to see some of the fruition of the larger picture of where Chia will be going over the next few years. It is still…
Chia Blockchain 1.3.1 released – lots of fixes to 1.3
Happy St Patrick’s Day everyone! A day of green to go with a new version of Chia. Thanks to the Chia Network team and their hard work we have a release with a number of fixes ready for the main Chia blockchain application. There have been a lot of complaints about annoying bugs in Chia…
Growth of the Chia ecosystem
Right now the Chia ecosystem is going through a very strange phase. On the one hand the application ecosystem of tools built on top of the platform is starting to explode. On the other, the number of nodes and netspace is dropping as well as a general decline in participation for what we would call…
Chia News of the Week – Feb 14 to Feb 22
This one is again a little late, but there was some big Chia news that hit in the last week or so and I didn’t want it to fall to the wayside. Nothing quite as big as the week before the with release of the Chia Blockchain 1.3 beta, but big nonetheless. Also this is…
Chia Blockchain 1.3 Beta released
The next major version of the Chia Blockchain software, version 1.3, has been released in beta form. This release brings a ton of much-anticipated features, but this is not a production release yet. Chia Network is not recommending that anyone running a production farm install this yet, but they are asking for people in the…
