I've stayed away from writing about cryptocurrency mining articles, but I had to check out Chia cryptocurrency mining when it popped up onto my radar a few months ago. After really diving into ...

Chia is in the headlines for all the right and wrong reasons right now, with the storage-focused cryptocurrency created by BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen burning through HDDs and SSDs like there's no ...

PNY was recently caught cutting down SSD write endurances in order to deter Chia crypto-coin miners. However, it seems the firm has figured that this will also affect normal users as well who won't be ...

For the last few years, I've had a group of friends who tried to convince me to start mining Ethereum. I have access to a few gaming computers and the required GPUs to mine to make a passive income. I ...

And those are WITH the disk array controller module (one of them came with redundant modules), plus all the drive trays. It remains to be seen how Chia cryptocurrency mining will develop going forward ...

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Cryptocurrency mining has been a bane on gamers hoping to score a graphics card at fair market value, but just wait until the storage market dries up, too. Perhaps (hopefully) it will not happen. It ...

Chia Network, 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, Ethereum ...

I don't see how Chia will be sustainable long-term. There's no way to create plots without actively destroying hardware. It's not like GPU mining where the act of mining is less abusive on the ...