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I think that would be unfortunate. That kind of special-purpose hardware would go against the "anyone can farm" spirit of Chia and likely worsen the environment
by Glench 5y ago
I think that would be unfortunate. That kind of special-purpose hardware would go against the "anyone can farm" spirit of Chia and likely worsen the environmental impact since those drives wouldn't be useful for other applications.
- londons_explore 5y ago"Anyone can farm" is clearly only going to be a thing while the project stays small. It will always be more cost efficient to assemble tens of thousands of the most optimal hard drives/CPU's/ASICS in a big room, bulk ordering them all cheaply, than it will be to DIY it yourself at home. Any kind of mining will always end up costing exactly the same as the revenue. And that means you and I will make a loss at home. You could claim "but I'm using unused hard drive space, so it's free", but really you should be thinking "I bought a hard drive bigger than I needed, but I can partially recover the cost with Chia". And besides, in a few months, the 200GB free on your hard drive won't even be worth the effort of installing the software.
- fomine3 5y agoAlso, unused space is not just wasted, but utilized to efficient (less fragmented) data placing and wear leveling.