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The opposite of this. Chia is rather aggressive about issuing writes to disk and quickly chews through consumer grade SSDs' write endurance.

zozbot234 5y ago
There's a difference between creating new "plots" to farm and farming an existing plot. The former is very write intensive, the latter is a pure read workload.
- formerly_proven 5y ago
  Well, yeah, that's why you use hard drives for storing plots (waiting for the distributed lottery to draw your plot's number) while continuously generating new lottery tickets on the SSDs.
- jazzyjackson 5y ago
  Still, one of the coin's selling points is that low-energy for farming and verifying transactions. That is kind of moot if there's an economic incentive to burn SSDs to get your hands on these eco-friendly coins.
mangecoeur 5y ago
For something that was supposed to be more “green” this seems like a very obvious oversight
- ceejayoz 5y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing "Dishonesty? In my crypto? It's more likely than you think."
  - rapind 5y ago
    Reminds me of the argument this guy was making recently https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/link-global-bitcoin-mine-alberta-1.6137731 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/link-global-bitcoin-m... > "We look at, OK, what can we do to use this in a beneficial way … I don't want to say we're in the business of methane destruction, but we're in the business of beneficial use of that potential methane-generating source. You combust it properly. You don't flare it, and you control those emissions," Jenkins said.
    - gruez 5y ago
      The article isn't exactly clear what's happening. Are they extracting natural gas (methane) that would normally stay in the ground, or are they flaring natural gas that would otherwise have leaked out?
- Slartie 5y ago
  If you want some new crypto to succeed, it must have at least one blatant lie on the first page of its white paper. Otherwise no "investor" will buy the stuff.
- Dylan16807 5y ago
  Yeah, the plotting thing is really bad. But thankfully: 1. the network has mostly stopped expanding 2. I think there's a pretty good ramdisk plotter now for big miners

zozbot234 5y ago

There's a difference between creating new "plots" to farm and farming an existing plot. The former is very write intensive, the latter is a pure read workload.

formerly_proven 5y ago
Well, yeah, that's why you use hard drives for storing plots (waiting for the distributed lottery to draw your plot's number) while continuously generating new lottery tickets on the SSDs.
jazzyjackson 5y ago
Still, one of the coin's selling points is that low-energy for farming and verifying transactions. That is kind of moot if there's an economic incentive to burn SSDs to get your hands on these eco-friendly coins.

mangecoeur 5y ago

For something that was supposed to be more “green” this seems like a very obvious oversight

ceejayoz 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing "Dishonesty? In my crypto? It's more likely than you think."
- rapind 5y ago
  Reminds me of the argument this guy was making recently https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/link-global-bitcoin-mine-alberta-1.6137731 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/link-global-bitcoin-m... > "We look at, OK, what can we do to use this in a beneficial way … I don't want to say we're in the business of methane destruction, but we're in the business of beneficial use of that potential methane-generating source. You combust it properly. You don't flare it, and you control those emissions," Jenkins said.
  - gruez 5y ago
    The article isn't exactly clear what's happening. Are they extracting natural gas (methane) that would normally stay in the ground, or are they flaring natural gas that would otherwise have leaked out?
Slartie 5y ago
If you want some new crypto to succeed, it must have at least one blatant lie on the first page of its white paper. Otherwise no "investor" will buy the stuff.
Dylan16807 5y ago
Yeah, the plotting thing is really bad. But thankfully: 1. the network has mostly stopped expanding 2. I think there's a pretty good ramdisk plotter now for big miners