What is Chia?


Due to the huge consumption of global computing resources and energy by the virtual currency represented by Bitcoin, and the continuous increase in the price of computing hardware, some emerging virtual currency projects in recent years have begun to use hardware resources that are cheaper and have lower energy consumption. --hard disk. For example, virtual currencies such as Chia, which have exploded recently, were created by Bram Cohen, the founder of BitTorrent. It is a way to obtain blocks using existing free hard disk space distributed on global nodes.

The principle of hard disk mining is that the user installs software, that is, uses the CPU or graphics card, and writes the hard disk with hash data through the corresponding algorithm to achieve plots of the unused space on the hard disk. This process is called "P Disk", this process requires the use of a faster read and write speed SSD as a temporary storage disk. After completing a plot file, the P disk software will transfer it to the hard disk used for mining. After the P disk is over, the mining program will scan the hash data on the hard disk, and then submit it to the main network for verification, and then the mining program will look for the best answer in the drawn P disk file (farmer process) , And get rewards.

If the total capacity of your P disk file is higher than the capacity of the entire network, the more likely it is to explode, and the corresponding mining revenue will be higher. Chia mines through hard drives, which means that ordinary users can also participate in mining. But many users have questions-Chia uses hard drives to mine, what configuration is generally required for mining hardware?

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