It caused the demand and prices of hard drives and SSDs to grow. Its consumption made a SSD only lasts 80 days mining Chia and therefore they had a minimal profitability .
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Second, according to the creators of the currency, Chia (XCH) is an environmentally friendly coin and is not mined , rather it’s farmed, with the protocol needing low energy to generate new coins.4 Tem 2021
Read moreHow do I start mine Chia?
First you need to clear a field (i.e., delete any files on your storage devices that are taking up space), then you plow and seed the field (compute a plot for Chia) , and then… well, you wait for the crops to grow, which can take quite a long time when those crops are Chia blocks.3 Ağu 2021
Read moreHow profitable is Chia?
But realistically, no one farms a single Chia plot expecting to earn a profit. A more reasonable minimum size for a Chia farm is 10 terabytes. A single 10 terabyte drive holds 91 plots, which means it would earn about $20.02 per month mining in a pool at today’s prices.
Read moreHow does Chia coin work?
The Chia blockchain comes up with its own random number, and the winning miner is the one who has the closest match . Chia describes this as “proof of space and proof of time” but essentially the more hard drive space you have, the more random numbers you own, and the greater your chance of winning.15 Tem 2021
Read moreIs Chia the next Bitcoin?
Founded by Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent, Chia is a next-generation, open source blockchain that has been built from the ground up to meet the needs of the future of interconnected markets.
Read moreWho is behind Chia crypto?
San Francisco-based Chia, created by BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen and which aims to reduce public blockchains’ energy dependency, raised $61 million in a Series D funding round at a valuation of $500 million last year.
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