- Cannot comment until it is legally responsible to do so
- CNI is working with a number of big entities but cannot comment on ongoing projects and partnerships until the partners are ready to share.
- Update coming in the next 2 weeks
- Likely in conjunction with a product AMA with new product lead, Cameron Cooper
- Team is excited about it.
- No news to share this AMA because a bigger update will be coming in the next week.
- Logistics are complicated to get good quality merch
- No resources dedicated to this yet
- Should be on track to be delivered before the IPO
- (can see the ASIC timelord at top of pyramid)
- Going through final stages of testing internally, testnet next month.
- Distribution not determined yet. Aiming to ship out by end of year.
- Selection criteria will include: geographic location, speed/stability of internet connection
- Some will be going to academics and researchers to try to break/audit.
- No measure on power draw yet, but it's not much and they run cool with metal casing.
- Can technically do Bluebox compactification but this is not a priority to write the software for it.
- CUDA plotting full-ram (256GB) was released in Bladebit 3.0 as part of Chia 2.0
- CUDA plotting partial RAM (128GB) is available in Bladebit 3.1, and will likely be the most popular option.
- CUDA plotting partial RAM (16GB) is available in Bladebit 3.1 but is highly limited by disk speed (3GB/s sustained write), not recommended.
- Bladebit diskplot and overall clean up of plotting options coming in the future.
- Bug with Linux GUI and specific CLI command generating invalid plots was fixed, upgrade to Chia 2.0.1 if impacted.
- Plots check should be done on SSD before moving to hard drive, especially for compressed plots.
- AMD plotting/harvesting support will be "under consideration" in the roadmap update.
- CPU farming performance is on par with Gigahorse, GPU performance can be improved.
- Check out updated docs for guidance and ask in Discord
- Also check out Digital Spaceport's YouTube Channel for great learning resources.
- New Phison pTLC SSDs are perfect for Chia plotting workload (TLC drives put in SLC mode)
- Sustained r/w speed of 6.5 to 7 GBPs, perfect for partial RAM CUDA plot modes.
- Working to get it sold on Amazon under popular brands (Sabrent, Corsair etc.)
- Digital Spaceport's store will have it first, best place to get it.
- Several big successes have made the existing grant program worth it (e.g. Evergreen, Dexie)
- But there have also been a number of defunct projects
- Program was paused but will be rebooting with a different structure this fall.
- Tangem team and product is great but CNI is not in a position to audit/approve third party software
- Ledger wallet support in progress, first want to develop security/custody features on blockchain before integration.
- Currently block sizes are artificially capped to 50% to ensure low end hardware can keep up
- Removing this cap will require node code update
- Not necessary to remove cap at this stage given current level of on-chain transactions
- CNI will be launching a Chialisp learning platform with a demo program to develop as a working example.
- Custody solutions will have better UX in the future
- Justin and Cameron's second fav crypto is Bitcoin
- Cameron wishes someone will work on zero-knowledge now that the BLS op-codes are in
- CHIP-13 will decrease netspace estimates by 0.5~1%
- Chiapower energy model has been updated to include lower plotting energy usage and higher harvesting energy usage due to compressed plots. Has not been pushed to chiapower.org yet
- Justin is playing Baldur's Gate 3
- JM is playing Diablo 4
- J finds himself on the board of a maker space
Thank you Serial Plotter from Chia Network Discord for providing their notes too!