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Re:What is Chia cryptocurrency and why is it bad news for ha... by Jermaine_Jabi on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:14PM (#27011494)
What stops me from running multiple nodes pointing at the same stored data? Or would that not be beneficial
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Re:What is Chia cryptocurrency and why is it bad news for ha... by bombcar on Saturday May 01, 2021 @11:31PM (#27012150)
The disks store cryptographic lottery tickets - your chance of having the right one increases the more space you have. Two nodes pointing at the same batch wouldn’t.
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Re:What is Chia cryptocurrency and why is it bad news for ha... by VectorLock on Saturday May 01, 2021 @11:29PM (#27012141)
Only one "wins" the reward.
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