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>Chia claimed to "Save the world from proof-of-work wastage", but it would just turn a GPU crunch into a HDD crunch. Chia actually hasn't resulted in an HDD cr
by bitcurious 5y ago
>Chia claimed to "Save the world from proof-of-work wastage", but it would just turn a GPU crunch into a HDD crunch.
Chia actually hasn't resulted in an HDD crunch. The economics of it are such that further investing in HDD storage isn't profitable, yet already Chia is the most decentralized and resilient crypto. I say resilient because price collapsed but allocated storage hasn't.
- shadilay 5y agoI still can't find deals on large HDD's ever since the Chia thing started, so it's definitely had an effect.