Now the question you should ask yourself is why farmr is being discontinued and not picked up by someone else to support Chia? What other tools out there provide the information that farmr did?
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My farming machine is running on simple sata ssd which is more than 5 years old. My farm never had an issue during dust storms. You donāt need to be a whale.
Are you under the impression that Chia and MMX are built for the same purpose? Perhaps learn what MMX is all about by following this link and reading a bit. It offers a good, concise explanation of MMX in a few bullet points. Rather than speak for Max, please read this link that summaries the MMX projectās āDesign and Featuresāā¦
mmx-node
MMX is a blockchain written from scratch, using proven logic from Chiaās Proof of Space and improved SHA256 VDF similar to Solana.
Youāll see that, vs what Chia is all about, there are very significant differences between the two. Obviously they are both a blockchain built on similar concepts. But IMHO there the similarities end.
Nowā¦ so consider that Chia is a blockchain that, as I see it, needs 3rd parties to utilize it to be useful and its success depend on that. Then consider that "Native MMX is designed with the properties and usage of an actual currency". Very very different use cases.
Beyond that is the fact that MMX is considerably faster, and more efficient in implementation using (thou not requiring) GPU based plotting and farming, and that it is under active development (in TestNet), while improving and being fine tuned with an active and growing testnet base.
The fact that Max is and has been lending his programming skills to help Chia Inc over time., is certainly showing his support for both efforts. Chia would not be even where it is today without his efforts.
Will either ultimately succeed? Anyoneās guess for reasons we all know. But certainly MMX is a different bet than Chiaās XCH.
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Iāve already read all that, I still donāt see the point. There are other cryptocurrencies that do the same thing. It feels like a marginal improvement for marginal gains.
Max made a big contribution in a niche aspect of Chia (plot file creation), heās not the reason Chia is succesful today.
It is a very different bet, one that many cryptocurrency miners have taken since 2009, and weāve seen how that badly that usually goes. I donāt see why I should take that bet, doesnāt mean Iām right, I just donāt see the upside.
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Thatās hilarious, without plots there is no chia, without Max youād still be plotting hours per plot as Bram tired to diss it (like he does every 3rd party dev breakthrough) as dangerous. He is the reason chia got off itās ass.
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This is not entirely true at all. Parallel plotting was a thing with the OG plotter.
I like what Chia is doing outside of us farmers. The farming isnāt that big a deal for Chia Corp, we are doing it because it is so lucrative. Chia corp doesnāt really need to worry about providing for farmers when they have over 100,000 of us when they really only need a tenth of it.
What Chia does need to worry about is competition in their space. The MMX coin is definitely an excellent competitor and needs to be supported. Itās speed and overall excellence is something that I might throw a few TB at to support and see what happens.
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This just goes to show how little you know about blockchain technology and what proof of space time is. Making a plotting software is not the same level of involvement as making a new blockchain based on a new type of mathematical proof that had to be invented (VDF).
Most forks and new blockchain projects are very low value-added, and prey on people who donāt know what theyāre talking about, to invest their hard earned money (that will be āstolenā one way or another). MMX is simply trying to be the main competitor of Chia on the PoST space, and they might succeed since the competition is low. But itās not going to be the huge revolution that people talk about (you just have to look at Bitcoin Cash if you donāt believe me) or a nice get rich quick scheme.
I still expect Chia to have the biggest Netspace after MMX launch and in the coming years, and Chia to be the highest value PoST coin. Just look at Chives or other PoST networks, they arenāt around anymore, yet everybody was saying how ābetterā it is than Chia. Storj and Sia donāt have bigger netspace, and Filecoin is catching up but not beating the Netspace of Chia (and you have to spend a lot of money to be granted that space, which is in itself a ponzi-like scheme).
The stakes are very low to post your opinion online, everybody can do it, ātalk is cheapā. Nothing that was said here convinced me that Max is a genius or that MMX is the best new business in town. Iām just replying here not to convince you and other people who āopposeā me with their arguments, but simply because uneducated new-comers might be led to believe that the MMX is the new Bitcoin (it isnāt) and they will get rich from it (they wonāt).
Do your research !
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Also Harold made a new plotter too, Max isnāt the only other contributor to plotting software.
Could be very worth it in the beginning, the difficulty being able to sell when no exchange allows it. Depending on the timing of MMX launch, the market will go up (stimulated by the 4-year halving cycle of BTC) and it could be sold at even more inflated prices. Long term tho Chia is the first and biggest network and will enjoy the benefits of its position in the market, mining chia should remain the most profitable and secure option.
Letās see what Max will come up with to beat LN on BTC and Sharding on ETH, and other PoS networks too, in terms of transaction throughput. Maybe heāll improve MMX beyond my expectations !
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The Plots are the proof of time and space my friend, without them you do not have a proof of time and space blockchain.
Itās āhilariousā that you think a plot proves ātimeā. Anyway, as I said previously, you donāt know much. Have fun mining MMX, let me know how it goes 
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I had a slow morning and decided I wanted to see where everyone on this chain was coming from. I scraped 100 IP addresses and looked them up for a small sampling of the ecosystem, itās fairly predictable for anyone thatās been into coins:
Russian Federation 26%
China 16%
USA 16%
Canada 4%
Germany 4%
Australia 3%
Netherlands 3%
Czechia 2%
Romania 2%
Spain 2%
Taiwan 2%
Ukraine 2%
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2%
Argentina 1%
Cambodia 1%
Croatia 1%
Finland 1%
Hungary 1%
Indonesia 1%
Italy 1%
Korea (Republic of) 1%
Latvia 1%
Lithuania 1%
New Zealand 1%
Serbia 1%
Slovenia 1%
Thailand 1%
Uruguay 1%
Viet Nam 1%
I tried to not double count dynamic IP addresses from the same city twice, and I bet this will look a lot cleaner with a larger sample size (I think I found my project for the week).
Bonus points to this guy (IP redacted): Russian Federation, Rostovskaya oblastā City: Rostov-na-Donu for earning the naughty spammer award lol: "Recently reported forum spam source. (11) "
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| Country | State/Region | City |
|---|---|---|
| Russian Federation | Permskiy kray | Kungur |
| Russian Federation | Leningradskaya oblastā | Agalatovo |
| Russian Federation | Primorskiy kray | Gornyye Klyuchi |
| Ukraine | Kyiv | Kiev |
| United States | Colorado | Fort Collins |
| United States | Kentucky | Murray |
| Russian Federation | Moskva | Moscow |
| Serbia | Kosovsko-Mitrovacki | Pristina |
| Russian Federation | Moskva | Moscow |
| United States | Texas | Houston |
| Russian Federation | Chelyabinskaya oblastā | Chelyabinsk |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | England | Colchester |
| Australia | Queensland | Maroochydore |
| United States | New Jersey | Piscataway |
| United States | Idaho | Nampa |
| Finland | Uusimaa | Helsinki |
| Australia | Queensland | Brisbane |
| United States | North Carolina | Raleigh |
| Russian Federation | Moskovskaya oblastā | Krasnozavodsk |
| Russian Federation | Murmanskaya oblastā | Murmansk |
| Netherlands | Noord-Brabant | Eindhoven |
| Russian Federation | Moskva | Moscow |
| Germany | Bayern | Gunzenhausen |
| Russian Federation | Moskva | Moscow |
| Latvia | Riga | Riga |
| Canada | Manitoba | Minnedosa |
| United States | California | Pomona |
| Hungary | Somogy | Balatonlelle |
| Russian Federation | Chelyabinskaya oblastā | Mināyar |
| Russian Federation | Tulāskaya oblastā | Tula |
| Netherlands | Noord-Holland | Amsterdam |
| United States | California | Cerritos |
| Russian Federation | Moskovskaya oblastā | Podolāsk |
| United States | Rhode Island | Providence |
| United States | Washington | Bremerton |
| Romania | Ilfov | Jilava |
| Germany | Bayern | Ingolstadt |
| Slovenia | Puconci | Puconci |
| Canada | Quebec | Montreal |
| China | Jiangsu | Nantong |
| Russian Federation | Moskva | Moscow |
| United States | Florida | Wellington |
| New Zealand | Auckland | Auckland |
| Russian Federation | Leningradskaya oblastā | Murino |
| China | Jiangsu | Changzhou |
| China | Jiangsu | Nanjing |
| China | Shanghai | Shanghai |
| Croatia | Varazdinska zupanija | Varazdin |
| Canada | Nova Scotia | Halifax |
| Czechia | Praha, Hlavni mesto | Prague |
| Spain | Madrid, Comunidad de | Madrid |
| United States | Wisconsin | Madison |
| Viet Nam | Ha Noi | Hanoi |
| Lithuania | Vilniaus apskritis | Vilnius |
| China | Zhejiang | Wenzhou |
| Romania | Timis | Lugoj |
| Australia | Western Australia | Perth |
| China | Jiangsu | Nanjing |
| United States | North Carolina | Charlotte |
| Germany | Niedersachsen | Hanover |
| China | Beijing | Beijing |
| Russian Federation | Rostovskaya oblastā | Rostov-na-Donu |
| China | Zhejiang | Jinhua |
| China | Zhejiang | Taizhou |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | England | Haywards Heath |
| Netherlands | Noord-Holland | Amsterdam |
| China | Fujian | Quanzhou |
| Argentina | Cordoba | Cordoba |
| Russian Federation | Volgogradskaya oblastā | Volgograd |
| Russian Federation | Moskva | Moscow |
| China | Sichuan | Chengdu |
| Russian Federation | Moskva | Moscow |
| China | Guangdong | Shenzhen |
| United States | Illinois | Naperville |
| United States | Florida | Inverness |
| Ukraine | Kyiv | Kiev |
| Russian Federation | Tatarstan, Respublika | Kazan |
| Spain | Castilla-La Mancha | Guadalajara |
| Korea (Republic of) | Gyeonggi-do | Seongnam |
| Cambodia | Phnom Penh | Phnom Penh |
| China | Liaoning | Dalian |
| Russian Federation | Kirovskaya oblastā | Kirov |
| Czechia | Karlovarsky kraj | Chodov |
| Taiwan | Hualien | Hualien |
| China | Shanghai | Shanghai |
| United States | Michigan | Flint |
| Uruguay | Montevideo | Montevideo |
| Russian Federation | Khanty-Mansiyskiy avtonomnyy okrug | Kogalym |
| Italy | Toscana | Florence |
| Canada | British Columbia | Burnaby |
| Indonesia | Jawa Barat | Bekasi |
| Russian Federation | Moskovskaya oblastā | Zhukovskiy |
| Taiwan | Taoyuan | Taoyuan |
| Russian Federation | Rostovskaya oblastā | Rostov-na-Donu |
| China | Zhejiang | Jiaxing |
| Russian Federation | Kaliningradskaya oblastā | Kaliningrad |
| Germany | Saarland | Saarbrucken |
| Russian Federation | Bryanskaya oblastā | Bryansk |
| Thailand | Krung Thep Maha | Bangkok |
| China | Beijing | Beijing |
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im also collecting IPs for finding when orpahn chains show up. Mash them with the farmer logs using my network server/jbod. do you think this data its worth anything?
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[quote=āninroi, post:114, topic:15031, full:trueā] do you think this data its worth anything?
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Financially probably not - building a website takes a lot of time and has hosting costs. I think most devs that invested in side projects ended up never breaking even (donations or ad revenue). Even looking at our fearless leaderās donation address for the original Madmax plotter on the Chia sideā¦ way too low and he basically replotted all of our farms!!
For the knowledge though, or helping a fellow farmer or two along the way? I think itād be a great idea to work with data and see what you get.