Chia VDF Competition Round 1 Results and Announcements

Thank you to everyone who participated in the first round of Chia Network’s Verifiable Delay Function (VDF) competition. The round concluded on January 3rd, 2019 with many excellent submissions from the participants. The quality of the…

Chia VDF Competition Guide

Chia Network recently launched a three month long competition to create faster implementations of our proofs of time and get a better handle on its security requirements. The Verifiable Delay Function Competition (VDF, aka proof of time) is open to anyone, has $100,000 in total…

The ASIC Resistance of Proof of Space

A recent podcast speculated quite a bit about the economics of Chia Network’s new proof of space and time consensus algorithm.

Let’s discuss the assertion that there are optimizations in storage technology allow for the creation of…