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Happy Holidays from Chia!

With over 16 seasonal holidays in the second half of December observed around the world, we here at Chia Network feel a desire to celebrate the holidays with everyone in the community as we bring 2021 to a close. We would like to do so in a way that enables us to thank everyone for...

December 21, 2021

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Announcing the launch of docs.chia.net!

TL;DR We have a new home for Documentation for all things Chia launching today, at https://docs.chia.net! Today we’re excited to announce the launch of our new Chia Docs site! This new site is step one of several in our ongoing efforts to help streamline and clarify our repositories for end-user

December 17, 2021

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How Do Hard Drives Fail?

Summary/TL;DR HDDs (hard disk drives) have moving parts and are subject to failure from mechanical wear and tear through regular use, and external environmental factors like temperature. Use SMART to monitor the drive’s health to look for uncorrectable errors and reallocated sectors for indication

December 16, 2021

Forks

How to save resources when farming Chia forks and monitor the balance of tokens without synchronizing the wallet

Recently faced with the need to save resources. My main node is built on the legendary 8 core FX 8350 processor and has 16 gigs of RAM on board. Harvesters are connected to it. But the number of Chia forks, which currently work about 30 pieces, require quite a few resources. So for a couple...

November 16, 2021

Chia Cranes

Chia-cranes: list of top free faucets for Chia (XCH) cryptocurrency and forks for August 2021

Chia Taps (Chia-Faucet) is an easy, fast way to get your first Chia XCH! I have already done review of chia cranes last month, now the list has expanded and expanded. Here is an up-to-date list of crane sites for obtaining free cryptocurrency Chia as well as its forks. You get a small amount of...

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The CAT’s Out Of The Bag: Chia Releases the CAT1 Standard

A selection of Chia employees’ cats (not to be confused with CATs) We’re excited to announce the release of the CAT1 Standard. This marks the addition of a powerful set of new features to Chia’s ecosystem. We can’t wait to see the creative breeds of CATs our community comes up with! What Ar

November 15, 2021

Forks

XT.COM will conduct HDDCOIN’s listing

Another great news from the world of altcoins Chia, the currency HDDcoin’s will be added to the exchange XT.COM following Spare. The listing is scheduled for November 5, but on Tuesday, November 2, 2021, HDDcoin’s will provide information regarding the timing of depositing, trading and withdrawa

October 31, 2021

News

Chia network withstood the transaction attack

On the Twitter page, Gene Hoffman posted a tweet that the Chia network withstood the TPS (Transaction Per Second, transaction volume per Second) attack, the peak value was 25 TPS. The Chia blockchain just sustained 25 TPS for a couple of hours while curbs are in that limit nodes to about 35% — 49%

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Chia’s Bug Bounty Program Has Launched with Bugcrowd

We are excited to announce that today our new Bug Bounty program has gone live with the support of Bugcrowd! This program is initially rolling out to a curated list of select security researchers managed by Bugcrowd while we iron out any kinks and get the program up to full speed. After that, Bugcr

October 21, 2021

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Chia Joins the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance

Bram and I are no real fans of the current patent regime around software for a host of reasons. We, however, are realists about needing patent protection to defend ours and other developers’ ability to innovate and use new blockchain related technologies to solve real world problems. That is why t

October 18, 2021

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Chia Releases Public AWS Image for Bluebox Timelords

Chia Blockchain – Bluebox Timelord AMI Release We have released a publicly accessible AMI (Amazon Machine Image) for Amazon Web Services. AWS makes it very fast and easy to deploy a Bluebox Timelord to an EC2 instance that you can control and manage in your own AWS environment. Once the image has

October 12, 2021

News

A pyramid focused on the Chia cryptocurrency has been blacklisted

Scammers do not sleep and are constantly hunting for users’ monetary assets. Not long ago, the CLOUDCHIA project was discovered, which resembles a Ponzi scheme (Pyramid scheme). CLOUDCHIA positions itself as an “international platform with data centers around the world.” Promises u

October 7, 2021

News

A lightweight wallet for Chia, Arbor is now available on iOS and Android

Following the Emergent Coin, which released its wallet NuclearSimplified Payment Verification Chia (SPV) for quick access to the wallet, Digital Farming Initiative has launched a test version of its new solution called Arbor Wallet and launched it as a Discord bot. And now also as apps on Android an

October 6, 2021

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30 hours to 30 minutes, Chia’s Release Automation Story

On March 17th, 2021, the roughly 15 chia engineers responsible for launching mainnet had just finished the “go, no go” checklist for launching Chia version 1.0.0. For the past several weeks the entire Chia team had been on high alert, working long hours, ironing out the final details that would

October 5, 2021

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Chia Token Standard Naming

TL;DR: The Chia token standard is going to be called CAT1 We’re in the process of making a real standard for tokens which will guarantee interoperability for developers who follow it, and it needs a name. In the past we’ve used the term ‘coloured coins’ in our documentation and code to refer

September 23, 2021

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Important Version 1.2.6 Information

Version 1.2.6 Released! We’ve released version 1.2.6, which is to address a bug-fix with nodes. While this is technically a bug-fix version, we want to stress the importance of this update being applied to your own nodes, and encourage you to update to it at the earliest convenience. Last week a

September 10, 2021

Forks

Spare — the first fork of Chia to be added to the crypto exchange

Spare — the first fork that was announced not long ago news about listing on the stock exchange but until the last moment it was not known which one. Today Spare announced that the SpareUSDT trading pair will be added to the exchange XT.COM . The auction will begin on September 8 at 8-00 UTC,...

September 8, 2021

Chia Pool

Top pool Chia Hpool holds a new raffle with prizes and Airdrope XCH

  Lucky Draw from Hpool On September 1, 2021, a snapshot of the account database will be taken. All users who will mine on the Hpool-ChiaPP pool from September 1 to September 15 automatically become participants in the Lucky Draw. The winners will be announced on the Hpool website on September

September 2, 2021

Forks

Silicoin announced the results of the vote for the restart of the network

Let me remind you that a vulnerability was discovered in the software of the Silicoin client that allowed an attacker to increase the chances of a reward bypassing the staking system. You can read about all the details in my previous article: «A vulnerability has been discovered in the Silicoin net

Forks

Spare is being prepared for listing on the cryptocurrency exchange

Today, the fork of Chia Spare, posted on Twitter an interesting and intriguing message about listing on the cryptocurrency exchange. The message does not indicate which exchange is being discussed. We follow the events and news.   It’s official. $SPARE will be listed one week from today:

September 1, 2021

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Chia Joins the Open Compute Project

Targeting a circular economy for storage Chia is excited to announce that we are joining the Open Compute Project to contribute to sustainability in storage. OCP is mainly known for open, modular, and vanity-free hardware that runs hyperscale data centers like Facebook and Microsoft, but OCP 2.0

August 30, 2021

News

Nucleus — DeFi Chia wallet that does not require synchronization

I present to your attention the first of its kind wallet for Chia that does not require synchronization with the network. Most recently I wrote about Chia hackathon and large prize funds for the development of the Chia Network eco system. The hackathon has just begun, and you and I can already obser

August 25, 2021

News

Chia Hackathon is open to users, the prize fund is more than $ 500,000

Create and develop the Chia network, participate in the Global Chia Hackathon organized by Sirius Labs with the support of the Chia Network. The theme of the Hackathon is Create and Build. This event is aimed at attracting development teams, which in turn will show what can be built on the Chia Netw

August 23, 2021

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Chia Cultivation Grant Program

TL;DR Chia is launching the Chia Cultivation Grant to invest in independent developers who are looking to create new and exciting tools to benefit the Chia ecosystem at large. Chia Networks is excited to announce the Chia Cultivation Grant program. As we are committed to growing and nurturing the

August 18, 2021

News

The KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange has added Chia to the auction

KuCoin is a Hong Kong cryptocurrency exchange launched in September 2017. Added Chia to the auction in the USDTXCH pair. Kucoin Exchange: https://trade.kucoin.com/ XCHUSDT pair: https://trade.kucoin.com/XCH-USDT $XCH trading is now live on #KuCoin!   ? XCH/USDT: https://t.co/dkiWqRZ56e Find out

August 7, 2021

Forks

Forks Green is the first exchange to exchange tokens from Chia Forks

Reading Twitter, I ran into a very interesting site, which is an exchange for exchanging Tokens from Chia forks. It’s up to you to decide how much you can trust such a resource. But I think it’s worth waiting and not rushing, and for all the curious and those who are looking for where to

August 4, 2021

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Chia and SSD Endurance – Big Progress, Less Waste

Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post about Chia and SSD endurance. The Chia proof of space construction requires a lot of sorting on temporary storage space to make the plot format secure and efficient for quick verification later in farming. The Chia plotting workload is only required to be pe

August 3, 2021

News

Chia Network launches Global Hackathon «Global Chia Hackathon» together with Sirius Labs

The long-awaited Global Chia Hackathon, held by Sirius Labs with the support of the Chia Network and investors, will be available for official application from August 12. Participants can submit their projects via Devpost and Hackerlink (sending Hackerlink is limited to Asia). Tracks or themes may i

July 30, 2021

Forks

DogeChia and RoseChain have added support for NFT rafts and a new pool protocol.

  Fork RoseChain added support for a new protocol pool, and NFT rafts. Now you can take up multifarming on old OG rafts and slowly replant new PP rafts. Forks, following Chia, begin to fully support the innovation of shared mining in order to decentralize networks. One of the first who switched

July 27, 2021

News

Translation of the article: «A Vision for DeFi in Chia» — Vision of DeFi in Chia by Bram Cohen

This article will be a translation of the original article “A Vision for DeFi in Chia“ by Bram Cohen about his vision of Chia in the DeFi market. The translation is partially completed and may contain inaccuracies or errors. But you can always read the original article on the official website of

July 23, 2021

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