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Crypto is on fire right now. Binance's CZ has successfully destroyed his longtime rival Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX, now BlockFi has suspended withdrawals from its platform because of the contagion spreading from the FTX destruction. But from what I can tell from the sidelines (at this point) Chia see...
Now that Chia Network has released the technical write-up about their "CAT 2 Upgrade" process, both detailing out the specifics of the security problem that affected CAT1 as well as highlighting the two previous audits they had undergone we can see what I got right and what I got wrong in my, admitt...
Jesus Christ, Chia Network. Jesus Christ. This is a bad one. Chia Network has, in a very rapid turn of events, eliminated an entire asset class from their blockchain (CAT1) and replaced it an entirely new asset class (CAT2), removed the original from the client and caused a ton of chaos with a short...
Now that the NFT1 standard has been out in the wild for a few days, and the creators in the Chia NFT space have had some time to start working with it the NFTs we have been waiting for are starting to pop out of the blockchain like a marmot infestation. Chia's Chia Friends launch,
Chia Network has released the next major milestone in their software evolution - version 1.4.0. This one is particularly special as it brings the long awaited DID and NFT standards to the Chia Blockchain. As always, you can download the latest version here and check out the release notes here. Becau...
Chia Network Inc has announced via tweet and press release their Non Fungible Token (NFT) standard called, creatively, NFT1. This is the standard outlined in CHIP-0005 as discussed here and we are going to talk about the standard a little bit today. As this directly impacts me as part of the Space M...
Chia Network has recently updated the Github repository where they store their CHIPs (Chia Improvement Proposals) and added a few critical ones that will help define the state of Chia over the coming year. I am going to go through them one by one to help get myself, and everyone else, up to speed. C...
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.
Wow. Its been hard to hold crypto the last little while. I haven't been paying much attention recently due to family issues but I can say that every time I do take a look it hurts my heart a little. We dipped below $40 XCH today, not for the first time this week, and there
In a blog post released this evening, Chia Network has detailed out their plans for the NFT standard they will be releasing this year. This is of special interest to me and the Marmotverse team, so I paid very close attention. The most immediate piece of news is the phased approach. Chia will be rel...
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....
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
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 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...
I don't know. There, that was easy. Yesterday I wrote a post about the Chia 1.3.3 re-release to re-fix the OpenSSL vulnerability on Windows. I have had them tell me in the past they don't test everything on Windows. For example, when I was trying to get their crawler to run I was told they
Chia has re-issued an update attempting to address the OpenSSL vulnerability that caused their last release. It appears that in Windows and MacOS there were separate issues when it came to updating OpenSSL on client machines. The Chia-blockchain 1.3.3 release should fix this. Personally I find this....
This week the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and the Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) of the European Union voted overwhelmingly to instill strong new regulations on cryptocurrency transactions, with no minimum limit, as part of their new anti money laundering package. This is....
Chia Network has just released version 1.3.2 of the Chia Blockchain software to address a critical OpenSSL vulnerability that has the potential to cause outages for anyone running a node on the old version. It is very strongly suggested everyone update immediately. The OpenSSL vulnerability was iden...
Regular readers of The Chia Plot might be wondering where I have been for the past month. The content has been very light recently, and even though there has been a lot going on the Chia community, I haven't been around to cover it. Except I have been around, just working on something new. Starting
I haven't been as focused on the Chia ecosystem in the last couple weeks due to some family commitments and a general need to get some stuff done. But the Chia ecosystem certainly wasn't waiting for me because the developments coming out of the Chia NFT scene - even before there really is one -
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
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
In an announcement on Keybase that was quickly deleted, the World Bank Climate Warehouse observer node that was announced last month is up and live. You can check it out here. There is also quite a bit of information available at the link posted in the announcement about how the system works. climat...
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
The big release we have all been waiting for is here - Chia Blockchain 1.3 has been finalized and released, and as of this writing the installers are being prepared for upload. This is a major version and there is a lot changed. (edit downloads are available) Most of the big changes were released in
According to an article at Techcrunch there might be some interesting stuff going on behind the scenes at Chia Network right now. Current (as of the last whitepaper update) Chia board member Jill Gunter, along with ex-employees at Chia have started a competing blockchain project called Espresso. It....
A new DeX (Decentralized Exchange) has launched in the Chia ecosystem named dexie.space. Like Offerbin, Offerpool and Hash.green it has a very simple interface and so far seems to work extremely well. It popped on my radar this weekend and I decided to check it out. When you browse to the site you a...
In a message on various subreddits, Ethereum and Chia pool Flexpool has announced that they will be halting all services to Russian IPs and kicking off their Russian miners and farmers because of the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine. I did not want to get political on my site yesterday. I ha...
Last night Chia Network announced that they had released a new version of their 1.3 beta Chia client. This is the 3rd release in a short period of time, and really shows a dedication to producing usable software for the community. I am quite pleased with how the release management process is going.....
Chia Network has just announced the winners of their 24 hour Chia Developer Challenge they recently held with Clovyr. Even though this harkens back to the failed hackathon run by Sirius Labs many moons ago, it seems this one is not going that way. There was no mystery unclaimed super prize this time...
In a message on Keybase Chia Network has confirmed that the Minimum Viable Product for the World Bank Climate warehouse is nearing release. This will be the first version of the technology layer that will underpin the global carbon credit market detailed in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. world ba...
We have been quiet the last couple of weeks, but we have not been idle. We have been working on a lot of the back-end processes and have made quite a bit of progress. We are not yet in a position to release everything, but a lot of it is in the polish stage and
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
The Internet is currently on fire because of what is being described as an "OpenSea exploit", but was really an OpenSea NFT attack, where people are losing their NFTs off the platform to an unknown attacker. As of writing there have been dozens of victims to this attack, but contrary to initial repo...
In a bit of a mini-rant on Twitter, Bram Cohen has announced that Chia Network is using a legacy implementation of BLS Signatures (v2) where the new draft (v4) implements a slightly updated mechanism for generating private keys from seed phrases. I took some time to talk to Earle Lowe, developer at....
One of the most anticipated projects in the Chia ecosystem right now, by users and developers alike, is a full featured browser extension Chia wallet. The closest we have come so far is Goby Wallet, and today it received a massive update. You can check it out here on the Chrome Web Store. Right now
A few people have reached out to me over the 8 months of writing The Chia Plot to express interest in a weekly newsletter. A Chia newsletter is a great idea, and I have hummed and hawed about it, but now I don't have to. Because an unknown set of people (or unknown to me
In a blog post on the Chia Network official blog, Chia has laid out the CHia Improvement Proposal process, similar in principle to the Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP). This is going to be a mechanism for all of us folks, not part of Chia Network but part of the Chia network to help steer the
Chia Network has finally launched a mechanism for communication with the team other than Keybase. They actually did this last week but I am, of course, behind on everything. What they have built is a forum ChiaDevs, primarily aimed towards developers and that looks an awful lot like ChiaForum.com. B...
The last week has been a real big one for Chia Network and the Chia community. There wasn't a ton of Chia news, but the news we got was prety big. Last week ended with Chia hosting another information-dense AMA and that's where we will begin today, but that was certainly not the end of
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