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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 mor
by Glench 5y ago
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/ https://chiapower.org/
- puranjay 5y agoDo you know what’s a good place to start if I want to build a rig for Chia?
- Glench 5y agoYou might check out https://chiaforum.com/ 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.
- thinkmassive 5y ago“We initially recommend that you try plotting with what you have around.” https://www.chia.net/2021/02/22/plotting-basics.html https://www.chia.net/2021/02/22/plotting-basics.html
- woah 5y agoWhat do you mean? Chia miners will be forced to continually expand capacity, otherwise they will be left behind by difficulty adjustment as other miners expand capacity instead. Chia does only one thing: replace $1000 spent on electricity with $1000 spent on SSD manufacturing. It’s unclear which one is worse for the environment, but I think it’s likely that SSD manufacturing is worse, given the (real) mining and toxic chemicals involved.