Category: Chia.net

Knowing how to find a safe, secure, and trustworthy pool is important. There are many pools bidding for your plots, and it is your responsibility to find the best one for you and your needs. Your choice of what pool to join should be carefully researched, not simply based on promises of gold and riches….

TL;DR: The new plot format has arrived. Upgrade to version 1.2.0 of the Chia Blockchain software to start plotting for pools now and be sure to set up a Plot NFT before doing so. Original plots will continue to be self-farmable but can not be safely used in pools. Less than 3 months ago the very…

Today we are entering the second phase of our testing and roll out of the official pooling protocol. This phase is for pooling operators to test the pooling protocol end to end with testnet bound portable pool plots. Over 9000 lines of new code – much of which is Chialisp – have been written by the team since transaction…

Chia is a complex system. There is a lot of nuance and technicalities involved in understanding how all the components of Chia work together. Over the last several weeks we’ve seen several misconceptions floating around on social media and Keybase regarding how Chia works. We have compiled the most common misconceptions and questions with responses below. Also,…

With the release of the MadMax plotter there has been a lot of confusion about what improved plotting speeds mean to the security of the Chia blockchain. Bram, Gene, and the team will be available to talk about how improved plotting speed is great, what the actual security considerations for the Chia blockchain are, and the kinds…

In Chia we’re using BLS signatures which enable noninteractive signature aggregation. In this post I’ll explain how that fits into the system as a whole, what practical benefits it provides, and how our ‘standard’ transaction format works, and what taproot and graftroot really are. Explaining the motivation and background on taproot and graftroot is outside…

Overview of Chia plotting and farming The Chia project is based on proofs of space and time, a brand new Nakamoto consensus allowing for underutilized storage capacity to secure the blockchain. Proofs of space are stored in plot files, where a commonly used k=32 plot is 101.3GiB (108.8 GB, or Gigabytes). Generating plot files is a process called…

Today we release version 1.0 of the Chia Blockchain. You can go ahead and install it for Windows and MacOS with lots of other platforms supported too. You can continue plotting in 1.0 and otherwise prepare your farm while we wait for mainnet to start. The genesis challenge will be distributed using our green flag process at 7AM PDT (14:00 UTC) on…

We want to give you an update on mainnet timing and our general plans around the launch. First, as I write this, GitHub Actions is down hard so these plans already have a potential snag to them and are our current best estimate. We want the Chia blockchain to be right and not necessarily right now. With…

Come join a cocktail hour panel Friday March 5 and learn about the most efficient way to farm large quantities of plotted storage and talk about the impact Chia might have in terms of total electrical capacity used to support all Chia farms. 🌱 Joining Bram and Gene will be @xorinox, @storage_jm, and @farming101. We will be…