Category: Chia.net

Introduction First it is important to know that there are two very different parts of being a Chia farmer. There is creating the plots or plotting and then there is farming the plots. In this post we are going to focus on the process of creating your plots. The types of machines and storage space…

Come join a cocktail hour panel with Chia whales^H^H^H^H^H^H experts in plotting. Joining Bram and Gene will be @xorinox, @storage_jm, @kiwihaitch, and @farming101. We will be fielding questions and have some topics that are very frequently asked that we plan to cover in depth. We will again attempt to also stream live on YouTube but haven’t gotten…

Yesterday evening we released the first version of our Business White Paper. The goal of this document was to go into depth on the transformative impact that programmable digital money is going to have in finance, wealth, safety, digital security, and ultimately the entire concept of trust. Update 2/12/21 – There are now replays of our…

Update: Check the Pooling FAQ for more updates. As the launch of Chia’s mainnet approaches I want to go over the current status of farmer pools in Chia and what the plans for pooling are in the future. TL;DR We don’t have pooling fully implemented yet but are building in hooks to make two approaches to farmer pools…

A faster plotter and a k=32 plot size minimum mean it’s time for a new farming contest! Starting at block 11,325 on the Beta 15 (current) chain we’re going to have a farming rewards race to block 13,350. We will count the winning blocks by counting blocks of k size 32 or greater that are rewarded to a…

Now that the finalized plot format is out in Beta 1.8 and Beta 1.9, it’s time for some fun. Starting at block 7200 on the Beta 1.8/1.9 chain we’re going to have a farming rewards race to block 9200. The top 5 farmers by blocks won will get their choice of two rare T-shirts. We will count the…

Update: The Chia token standard is going to be called CAT1. Read more here. Blockchains should make issuing and using coins and assets easier and more trustworthy than in the analog world, but so far the functionality they provide is limited and hacked on awkwardly. Today we debut one of Chialisp’s most powerful smart transactions –…

With the release of Alpha 1.4 of the Chia blockchain there is no better time to become a farmer of Space and Time! The Chia testnet blockchain has been cruising along since early December 2019. Since then we’ve added support for more operating systems and platforms like Windows (via the Windows Subsystem for Linux) and machines like…

We just launched our first version of the Chialisp language and on-chain programming environment, which introduces a new and much better approach to building smart transactions. This post will give an overview of what the new innovations are and how they’re better. The two general approaches to smart transaction environments so far have been from Bitcoin and…

The Chia blockchain and consensus algorithm aims to provide a more environmentally friendly, decentralized, and secure alternative to proof of work or proof of stake, while maintaining some of the key properties that make Nakamoto consensus desirable. The full description of the algorithm can be reviewed in the Chia Network Green Paper. This is an alpha…