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Hey, I was there at the event (I did the lightning talk at the beginning). Would love to answer any questions about Chia that anybody has, that I learned first-
by marknadal 9y ago
Hey, I was there at the event (I did the lightning talk at the beginning). Would love to answer any questions about Chia that anybody has, that I learned first-hand from Bram.
- apexalpha 9y agoGoing to watch the video in a bit but I've got a question: could I turn my home NAS into a farmer for this blockchain simply by reserving some of my storage space for it or does it still require a lot of computing power (CPU/GPU)?
- marknadal 9y agoThat should work :) although it would need to be connected up to the network so it could reply to proof queries and "thread the needle" of the time servers.
- Cakez0r 9y agoHow does the proof of storage work and will proof of time be decentralised across all nodes in the network, or a subset of trusted nodes?
- marknadal 9y agoThe paper on storage proof is here: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/893 https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/893 The proof of time is probably best described as being federated. Any peer can join, but it realistically will only be run by a very few peers with specialized hardware. This mistakenly trips up a lot of people as a "bad" thing, when it shouldn't. The only purpose of the proof-of-time servers is to make replay attacks impractical. As in, if the network is 10 years old, an attacker would actually have to spend 10 provable years to manipulate it. What if they collude with the time server? Well, they'd have to collude with all of them, which is unlikely, even if there are only a few. And second, it isn't worth the time server's work. Again, the details are a lot more complicated, but hopefully that is a quick off-the-top-of-my-head explanation that gives some intuition.