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Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming

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Re: Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming

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post #4

I’m sure all the crypto fans are lining up around the block to tell us that their pet technology doesn’t waste valuable resources, it just uses storage that would otherwise have gone unused, as they do with Bitcoin and electricity.

Computational resources too Actually pretty close to what some scifi writers envision(The Golden Oecumene by Wright comes to mind)

Re: Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming

#23
post #4

I’m sure all the crypto fans are lining up around the block to tell us that their pet technology doesn’t waste valuable resources, it just uses storage that would otherwise have gone unused, as they do with Bitcoin and electricity.

I think it's funny how the world as a whole just simply moves the problem (excess resource usage for something a lot of people have deemed 'excessive' like bitcoin mining) from one type of resource to another. Now we're going to see storage costs skyrocket, which will (hopefully not) affect cloud storage providers, datacenters, etc. etc. etc.

Re: Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming

#24
post #13

> Chia plotting is extremely I/O intensive and destroys most SSDs in under a few weeks Woah, really?

From what I understand, newer consumer level SSDs are designed to have a lower TBW (TeraBytes Written) - mostly because any reasonable consumer doesn't write terabytes of data to their SSDs in any decent length of time. Enterprise/Higher end "GaMeR" SSDs have higher TBW ratings - I believe 1TB FireCuda Model NVMe SSDs have something insane like a 1800 TBW rating when I was looking a couple weeks back. These above men…

What is the expansion of the acronym “GaMeR”? I’ve not seen it before and I want to be sure I understand.

Re: Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming

#25
post #2

> As you can see, (the scale is in Petabytes), the space used is growing uncontrollably, and has already reached 7 Exabytes. Judging by the graph in the article, it was 1 exabyte in late April, under a month ago. Wow.

Who buys up all the farmed coins on these new cryptocurrencies.

It is really just speculation fever?

Re: Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From what I understand, newer consumer level SSDs are designed to have a lower TBW (TeraBytes Written) - mostly because any reasonable consumer doesn't write terabytes of data to their SSDs in any decent length of time. Enterprise/Higher end "GaMeR" SSDs have higher TBW ratings - I believe 1TB FireCuda Model NVMe SSDs have something insane like a 1800 TBW rating when I was looking a couple weeks back. These above men…

What is the expansion of the acronym “GaMeR”? I’ve not seen it before and I want to be sure I understand.

It's not an acronym, it's the word "gamer" written in something akin to leetspeak [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

Re: Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From what I understand, newer consumer level SSDs are designed to have a lower TBW (TeraBytes Written) - mostly because any reasonable consumer doesn't write terabytes of data to their SSDs in any decent length of time. Enterprise/Higher end "GaMeR" SSDs have higher TBW ratings - I believe 1TB FireCuda Model NVMe SSDs have something insane like a 1800 TBW rating when I was looking a couple weeks back. These above men…

What is the expansion of the acronym “GaMeR”? I’ve not seen it before and I want to be sure I understand.

They're just spongebob texting "gamer".

Re: Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming

#29
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From what I understand, newer consumer level SSDs are designed to have a lower TBW (TeraBytes Written) - mostly because any reasonable consumer doesn't write terabytes of data to their SSDs in any decent length of time. Enterprise/Higher end "GaMeR" SSDs have higher TBW ratings - I believe 1TB FireCuda Model NVMe SSDs have something insane like a 1800 TBW rating when I was looking a couple weeks back. These above men…

What is the expansion of the acronym “GaMeR”? I’ve not seen it before and I want to be sure I understand.

Believe it's use of Mocking Spongebob style https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mocking-spongebob

Re: Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming

#30
post #13

> Chia plotting is extremely I/O intensive and destroys most SSDs in under a few weeks Woah, really?

From what I understand, newer consumer level SSDs are designed to have a lower TBW (TeraBytes Written) - mostly because any reasonable consumer doesn't write terabytes of data to their SSDs in any decent length of time. Enterprise/Higher end "GaMeR" SSDs have higher TBW ratings - I believe 1TB FireCuda Model NVMe SSDs have something insane like a 1800 TBW rating when I was looking a couple weeks back. These above men…

> I believe 1TB FireCuda Model NVMe SSDs have something insane like a 1800 TBW rating when I was looking a couple weeks back.

This is still only a couple hundred 100GB plots (the smallest possible size).

"Chia SSDs" being made are something like 12000TBW.

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