A general thread for Chia (XCH) or any related topics. To start out, is anyone else having unreasonably difficulty synchronizing with the block chain? I had been synced before and was doing some small time pooling while adding new plots, but at some point it simply refused to sync at all. I read some stuff and figured that the db file had been corrupted, so I deleted it and started again. It took about a week but it finally was about 90% synced before it stopped syncing again. I started over from a backup from about halfway through and that one broke again even sooner. I finally just deleted everything in the chia directory so it was like running it for the first time (I kept the plots) and it seems to be working, but every so often it stops syncing. Instead of showing the progress of what block its on, it just says in red letters "not synced" or something like that, even though it says its connected to the network. closing the client and restarting it fixes it, but it always happens again seemingly at random. Its gone days without issues and hours. Its been about a week and Im at around block 900K on a 4 core xeon server with 12 GB of ram and a 1.5TB 4 drive RAID 5 array (it has room for expansion) and I have port 8444 open. There are plenty of peer connections. It's been 4 to 6 weeks since I've had my plots farming on a pool and I would really like for this to work correctly. Even with the halts in syncing, I feel like more than a week to sync on this machine is a bit unreasonable. I can't figure out what the bottleneck is.
Any advice would be appreciated, and also feel free to introduce any other topics of discussion.
I had one issue pop up prior to 1.3, but since updating and redoing my whole DB it's been fine. Was the first time I ever had to do that.
Also would be nice for exchanges to actually start supporting BLS signatures since they're gonna need to if ETH 2.0 is ever to happen
Jaxson Watson
uh, you're better off going to the chia subreddit to discuss this stuff.
Matthew Murphy
Poor man’s ICP
Ayden Ward
ah, a pity. Reddit always seemed much less intuitive a place to me. On a board/thread you can just ask a question real quick and get an answer real time, on reddit you have to log in to an account and make a new thread and then wait for people to respond, which, now that I write this, is almost exactly what I just did here...
But, at least here the stuff is easy to follow chronologically. You know stuff is still up to date and not some remnant from an older issue which has since been solved and is actually different from your issue. And its just easier to follow conversations. The "click here to see thread" button usually takes me to a totally different thread as far as I can tell...
I promise Im not a moron. My brain just works in different ways. I'm dumb, but not stupid, if you understand my meaning.
Satoshi said plainly to scale a proof of work blockchain the blocksize needs to increase. Does proof of space have room to scale? Can you increase the block sizes?
Jeremiah Ortiz
I imagine you could. I dont see any reason why you couldnt.
Gavin Edwards
per capital investment, chia is more efficient to mine than btc or eth.
once eth goes pos, btc will be the sole target of resource waste legislation. the btc community is too boomer to address the energy issue or integrate better scripting to allow rollups.
chia has better security than btc chia is comparable to energy efficiency of pos chia solves miner pool cartels
Anthony Morgan
Then the devs did a real shit job rugging since the premine/prefarm hasn't moved
Grayson James
Anniversary AMA is today
Jackson Morris
Did they announce who they partnered with on some big corporate project?
XCH seems solid long term, the price collapse was brutal though.
Only announced project is Project Atari which is doing the carbon asset verification and trading for countries through the World Bank. It's the final prototype test so it's not absolutely assured, but seems likely it'll get used after the last test
There's also Project Asteroids, though the specifics on that aren't super well known outside of it probably being more carbon credit stuff
Isaiah Bell
Thanks for the answers. The carbon offset seems like a good niche to start in.
I'm hoping XCH becomes a USA corporate coin since there is very little political risk since it will be a USA company and its green so corporates can say they are good for the environment.
It's pretty clearly being built to be the rails giant financial institutions and corps can use to move assets around. Chialisp being a more difficult to use but less easy to fuck up (like Solidity) smart contract language seems like a good move. When you're creating code to move millions in assets around it shouldn't be being done by a scriptkiddie. Corporate compliance with US laws will probably help a lot on confidence in the company Chia Network as being 'legit.' The one thing that gives me pause is if the mythical IPO (which would do a lot of good for the visibility and legitimacy of the network) will ever actually happen. Theranos was also totally going to do an IPO until they didn't
> The one thing that gives me pause is if the mythical IPO (which would do a lot of good for the visibility and legitimacy of the network) will ever actually happen. Theranos was also totally going to do an IPO until they didn't
Yeah I think they IPO, the tech sector is rekt right now. With IPOs you need to wait for the market to be hot for them based on what I've heard. They could always IPO via SPAC too.
