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Chia (by bittorrent inventor Bram Cohen) uses Proof of Space/Time and is specifically billed as a scalable, energy-efficient alternative with the same Nakamoto
by Glench 6y ago
Chia (by bittorrent inventor Bram Cohen) uses Proof of Space/Time and is specifically billed as a scalable, energy-efficient alternative with the same Nakamoto guarantees as Bitcoin. Their mainnet has been out for a month and the network is growing like 35% week over week.
https://chia.net/ https://chia.net/
- nanna 6y agoInteresting, and its contract language is LISP-like! https://chialisp.com/ https://chialisp.com/
- Glench 6y agoyeah! And possibly more importantly, after looking at Solidity contracts and seeing how much they were hacked, they severely limited the stateful side effects of ChiaLISP transactions. Apparently their thinking was so that these programs could be better audited by enterprise users that way, making Chia a more attractive blockchain to target.