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That’s only the storage required for ongoing use (“farming”). You’re not taking into account “plotting” which requires NVMe SSDs, decently fast CPU, and a few G
by thinkmassive 5y ago
That’s only the storage required for ongoing use (“farming”). You’re not taking into account “plotting” which requires NVMe SSDs, decently fast CPU, and a few GB RAM per plot (~101GB storage).
Assume it takes 7 hours to create a plot on high end consumer hardware.
- londons_explore 5y agoAs far as I can see, only the phase 1 of plotting is cryptographic in any meaningful way. The rest is just rearranging data requiring no CPU power, and can be done effectively instantly if you have 400GB of RAM. A big 'plotting house' would have dedicated crypto units to do phase 1, then stream the results over the network to a machine with 400 gigs of ram to do the rearrangement and write out a plot file. It should be possible to do that in seconds per 100GB file. The plotting I don't see is any kind of bottleneck for a big operation. It's the storage of the resulting files.
- thinkmassive 5y agoI agree on a longer time scale. It seems like moderate success of the Chia network would be a prerequisite for someone to invest in building that. My comment was responding to my interpretation of your claim to mean a single entity is likely responsible for the majority of the 1EB, and that could be accomplished for $20M. Based on my own observations over the past few months, I believe the network has been bootstrapped by a wide variety of hobbyists and a few larger scale operations, with far more than $20M invested overall.