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Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space

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Re: Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space

#91

Chia pre-mined 6 years worth of block rewards. Proof-of-space may be the closest thing we have to a viable proof-of-work replacement but this instantiation of it feels like a get rich quick scheme for its founders. Edit: My calculation was based on the initial reward schedule of 64 units per block, but when you take into account the fact that it ramps down to 4 units per block shortly thereafter, it's actually a prem…

What is wrong with proof of stake?

Re: Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space

#92
post #73

Here I am thinking there's finally a working file storage coin for truly decentralized and anonymous file hosting and no... it's another proof-of-waste thing.

They have all this material saying how green it is, but it's a load of bullshit. Which isn't surprising when the early "farmers" have massive financial incentive to lie.

Re: Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space

#93
post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It all depends on the economics. It's pretty likely that at some point reinvesting in Chia by buying more drives just doesn't make sense. You can also read more about the power consumption of Chia here: https://chiapower.org/

Do you know what’s a good place to start if I want to build a rig for Chia?

You might check out https://chiaforum.com/ or there are some Youtube tutorials if you search.

You can also use any old extra disk space you have on your current computers.

Re: Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space

#95
I don’t get it - it’s promoted as environmentally friendly, but it doesn’t seem that 1EB is being used for any actual useful storage purpose. It’s locked up as part of the running of the Chia system isn’t it?

Re: Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space

#96

Disks are about $20/TB right now. So 1 exabyte is $20M. Well within the scope of VC funding for someone who wants to make Chia appear to be a success.

They've had 10x growth in < 50 days, so this is perfectly likely - especially as crypto as a whole has had a pretty choppy couple weeks recently.

Re: Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space

#97
post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It all depends on the economics. It's pretty likely that at some point reinvesting in Chia by buying more drives just doesn't make sense. You can also read more about the power consumption of Chia here: https://chiapower.org/

Do you know what’s a good place to start if I want to build a rig for Chia?

“We initially recommend that you try plotting with what you have around.”

https://www.chia.net/2021/02/22/plotting-basics.html

Re: Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space

#99
post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bitcoin did not have a premine

Right, it just had Satoshi and friends as basically the only members on the network and mined millions of coins when difficulty was basically non existent.

Early adoption is not premining.

Re: Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space

#100

Disks are about $20/TB right now. So 1 exabyte is $20M. Well within the scope of VC funding for someone who wants to make Chia appear to be a success.

That’s only the storage required for ongoing use (“farming”). You’re not taking into account “plotting” which requires NVMe SSDs, decently fast CPU, and a few GB RAM per plot (~101GB storage).

Assume it takes 7 hours to create a plot on high end consumer hardware.

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