Chia Is Eyeing to Launch an IPO This Year
Chia, a cryptocurrency project created in 2018 that uses storage for its consensus, is eyeing a public offering this year, according to statements from its COO, Gene Hoffman. The company just received an influx of investments that are pointing it to become the next ‘green bitcoin substitute,’ due to its relatively low energy consumption compared to other proof-of-work (PoW) alternatives. Chia Aims to Launch an IPO This Year Chia, a cryptocurrency that was founded two years ago but launched its mainnet recently, is striving to launch an initial public offering (IPO) as soon as....
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On May 3, tokens stemming from the Chia network, a smart transaction blockchain created by the Bittorrent creator Bram Cohen, will start trading and transactions will be fully enabled. Rather than leveraging the proof-of-work consensus algorithm, Chia will utilize a model called proof-of-space which relies on storage. With Chia’s transactional launch pending, the project has sparked shortages over the demand for hard drives and solid-state drives (SSDs). Chia Network Fuels High-End Hard Drive and SSD Shortages Bram Cohen, the inventor of the popular torrenting application Bittorent....
Chia wants to make at-home mining cool again (or at least easy).
If you want to save the world, it's going to take a lot of hard drives. Chia Network (CHIA), which emerged onto the cryptocurrency scene with the promise of cleaning up the environmental mess left by Bitcoin (BTC) miners, may not be as green as it seems. Unlike Bitcoin, Ether (ETH) and others, Chia Network mines coins using an alternative to the energy-intensive Proof-of-Work (PoW). Chia coins are produced using only hard drive storage, and don’t require specialized ASIC hardware, or GPUs. But reports coming out of China point suggest that saving the environment isn’t as easy as it sounds....
A guide to Chia Network: farming, building a rig, the hard drive deficit and the future of the project. Chia Network recently entered the cryptocurrency scene and has quickly piqued the interest of many miners and investors. There are several reasons for this: First, the Chia blockchain operates using a novel proof-of-space-and-time (PoST) protocol, which means that proof of the space used and time spent on the task is required to farm the cryptocurrency.Second, according to the creators of the currency, Chia (XCH) is an environmentally friendly coin and is not mined, rather it’s farmed,....
OKEx, a prominent crypto exchange and derivatives platform in the industry has announced the inclusion of Chia Network’s native crypto asset. The listing of XCH went live on May 3, enabling users to trade XCH/USDT and XCH/BTC trading pairs. A creation of Bram Cohen, known for inventing the BitTorrent Network, Chia Network is a highly […]