I hope you all had a nice holiday weekend and got to spend some time with your families. Vaccination numbers are steadily rising and the end of the pandemic is in sight. Chia saw another incredible growth week and the 2900th unique address is about to win their first 2 XCH from block rewards. The…
Send feedback to @storage_jm on keybase or leave a comment here The goal of farming efficiently is to store the largest amount of data in the smallest amount of space with the lowest power. Generally, this involves tradeoffs of cost, availability, reliability, cooling, and noise, based on the size and location of the farm. Farming…
It’s been 10 days since mainnet went live and another milestone hit with 2000 unique addresses that have won XCH. I’ll say that again, 2000 unique addresses have won XCH. Last week, we estimated the net space at ~127PiB last Monday and today it hovers around 163 PiB touching on 170PiB overnight. Ridiculous 33.8%…
I’ll try to drop one of these every Monday to cover the past week in Chia and look ahead to anything we’re keeping our eye on. Starting this week’s update is easy. On Friday March 19th, the Chia Network dropped the green flag for the Chia blockchain and moved all the space farmers from testnet…
“We have Amazon and CJ affiliate links in this article and we earn commission from qualifying purchases at no cost to you. We only recommend products that we use ourselves and would never compromise the integrity of your build. This helps us bring you quality content and keep this site running.” It is tempting to…
used enterprise and data center SSDs are recommended for plotting to due the higher capacity, higher performance, sustained bandwidth, and high endurance ratings required for plotting a large amount of data
Rev 1.1 (updated for Chia version 1.0.4 with reduced temp space!!) “We have Amazon affiliate links in this article and we earn commission from qualifying purchases at zero cost to you. We only recommend products that we use ourselves and would never compromise the integrity of your build. This helps us bring you quality content…
Farming and Electricity Usage in Chia Recap
Plotting Recap: Intro – Bram Cohen, Gene Hoffman, Storage_jm, @kiwihaitch, @xorinox, @farming101 6:29 – primary bottlenecks for Chia plotting, CPU, DRAM, SSD temporary storage 9:00 – Bram – optimizing the chia plotting algorithms, sorting, bucket sort in memory, new sort functions, cryptographically generated 13:00 – different plotting approaches between the experts 16:00 – scaling up…
The idea of this plotting build centers around 8 core desktop CPUs being the plotting sweet spot for a low end budget, in terms of price, performance, IO connectivity and DRAM requirements. The build aims at getting 8 plotting processes concurrently for a target of 2.5-3TB total amount plotted per day for a total cost of under $1000. Plot time target is between 25000-28000 seconds.
