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Re:New Chia coin crypto with Proof of Space may create short... by teryyy on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:04PM (#26881645)
Article says it mostly should affect higher capacity drives, so consumers buying <4TB probably won't be impacted much.
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Re:New Chia coin crypto with Proof of Space may create short... by coolspot on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @06:26PM (#26882696)
Chia has two stages for mining: plotting and farming. Plotting requires as fast storage as possible, so it is usually done on NVM SSDs in increments of 100GB. Then you copy those 100GB plot files to a farm machine with large but slower HDD.
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