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I am incredibly grateful that the Chia cryptocurrency simply bundled all the complexity of their client into an electron app and made that available for their m
by jancsika 6y ago
I am incredibly grateful that the Chia cryptocurrency simply bundled all the complexity of their client into an electron app and made that available for their mainnet release.
It meant that instead of forcing me to screw around with novel terminology, novel design, and how those relate to a bunch of CLI commands, I could just:
1. Open a window
2. Be presented with a very friendly UI that stepped me through the process of creating a wallet and preparing my machine to mine.
3. Follow the easy to read instructions, without running into any error or any warnings whatsoever.
4. See the message that given my stock setup it would take me approximately 2 months to mine a coin.
5. Immediately uninstall the app.
If I had been forced to use CLI that would have taken me probably another ten minutes, for no gain.