Chia blockchain windows 10

Make sure you are downloading Chia software from the chia.net domain. Do not use any other download source.

Official installer links can be found on chia.net/download and this wiki page.

To install the chia-blockchain, follow the instructions according to your operating system.
After installing, follow the remaining instructions in the Quick Start Guide to run the software. You should read the release notes and the wiki/repository FAQ.

All keys and plots from version prior to Beta 8 (released July 16, 2020) are deprecated and can be deleted. Plots from both Beta 8 and newer should work on mainnet.

Minimum Specs

The minimum supported specs are that of the Raspberry Pi 4, 4GB model

• Quad core 1.5Ghz CPU (must be 64 bit)
• 4 GB Ram
• Python 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9 (there are currently known issues with 3.10)

Drive format support

Chia plot files are at least 108GB in size (for K32). To plot successfully requires drives formatted to support large files; e.g. NTFS, APFS, exFAT, ext4, etc. Do not use drives with FAT formatting (FAT12, FAT16, or FAT32) or else plotting will fail. Future versions of Chia will check for unsupported drives, but for now it’s up to each user to check their drive format.

Sleep kills plots

The Chia plotting process takes multiple of hours to complete. If the computer or hard drives goes to sleep during the plotting process, the plotting fails and you will need to start over. Please ensure all sleep, hibernate and power saving modes for your computer and hard drives are disabled before starting the Chia plotting process. In the future, Chia will have resume plot feature. In the meantime, if you do get a failed plot, delete all *.tmp files before starting a new plot.

Updating from Release Candidate to 1.0:

Keys and configs from RC3 and newer should automatically migrate. For more details, read the FAQ. No testnet/TXCH coins migrate to mainnet. Mainnet coins are forever, however.

Windows

Install the Windows installer — Chia Blockchain Windows

As the Chia code signing certificate is new you will likely have to ask to keep the download and when you run the installer, you will have to choose «More Info» and «Run Anyway» to be able to run the installer. There is no need to use the command line. Some Windows anti-virus applications are seeing the download as a false positive. You can see the entire source code and build method here so we think it’s safe for you to ask those tools to ignore it. Running the installer while plotting on a previous version will stop your plotting process, so be careful.

You can now proceed to the Quick Start Guide

macOS

macOS Mojave (10.14.x) or newer is required.

Install the macOS .dmg installer — Chia Blockchain MacOS

When the installer first runs it will import or create multiple keys and add them to the macOS keychain. You may be prompted up to 3 times for your password. We suggest choosing «always allow.»

You can now proceed to the Quick Start Guide

Install from source — macOS

To build a development version, make sure brew is available before starting the setup and that python 3.7 or newer is installed.
See install from source for detailed instruction.

Ubuntu/Debian

You can install Chia Blockchain in different ways, depending on your needs:

• Set up Chia’s repositories and install from them, for ease of installation and upgrade.

• Download the deb package and install it manually and manage upgrades manually.

• Install from source

Install using the repository

Before you install Chia Blockchain for the first time on a new machine, you need to set up the Chia repository. Afterward, you can install and update Chia Blockchain from the repository.

Set up the repository

1. Update the apt package index and install packages to allow apt to use a repository over HTTPS:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl gnupg

1. Add Chia’s official GPG Key:

curl -sL https://repo.chia.net/FD39E6D3.pubkey.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/chia.gpg

1. Use the following command to set up the stable repository.

echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/chia.gpg] https://repo.chia.net/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chia.list > /dev/null

Install Chia Blockchain

1. Update the apt package index and install the latest stable version of Chia Blockchain

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chia-blockchain[-cli]

You can also install the cli only version of chia-blockchain by replacing chia-blockchain with chia-blockchain-cli in the install command.

Install from deb files

We have GUI and CLI Only installers available for Ubuntu 18.04 and newer and Debian Buster and newer. There are also arm64 versions of the debs available for Ubuntu and Debian/Respberry Pi OS 64. When using the GUI installer, binary CLI tools can be found in /usr/lib/chia-blockchain/resources/app.asar.unpacked/daemon/

• GUI installer (x86_64)
• GUI installer (arm64)
• CLI only installer (x86_64)
• CLI only installer (arm64)

Install from source — Ubuntu

See install from source for detailed instructions.

CentOS/Red Hat/Fedora

You can install Chia Blockchain in different ways, depending on your needs:

• Set up Chia’s repositories and install from them, for easy of installation and upgrade
• Download the rpm package and install it manually and manage upgrades manually
• Install from source

Install using the yum/dnf repository

Before you installer Chia Blockchain for the first time on a new machine, you need to set up the Chia repository. Afterward, you can install and update Chia Blockchain from the repository.

Set up and install using yum

1. Install the yum-utils package (which provides the yum-config-manager utility) and set up the stable repository.

sudo yum install -y yum-utils

sudo yum-config-manager \
    --add-repo https://repo.chia.net/rhel/chia-blockchain.repo

1. Install Chia Blockchain

sudo yum install chia-blockchain[-cli]

You can also install the cli only version of chia-blockchain by replacing chia-blockchain with chia-blockchain-cli in the install command.

Set up and install using dnf

1. Install the dnf config-manager util and set up the stable repository.

sudo dnf install 'dnf-command(config-manager)'

sudo dnf config-manager \
    --add-repo https://repo.chia.net/rhel/chia-blockchain.repo

1. Install Chia Blockchain using dnf

sudo dnf install chia-blockchain

You can also install the cli only version of chia-blockchain by replacing chia-blockchain with chia-blockchain-cli in the install command.

Install from rpm files

We have GUI and CLI Only installers available for RHEL/CentOS 7 and newer and Fedora 28 and newer. When using the GUI installer, binary CLI tools can be found in /usr/lib/chia-blockchain/resources/app.asar.unpacked/daemon/

• GUI installer
• CLI only installer

Fedora 31+ requires libxcrypt-compat to be installed on the system.

Install from source — CentOS/Red Hat/Fedora

See install from source for detailed instruction.

Install from binary wheels

python3.7 -m venv venv
ln -s venv/bin/activate
. ./activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --extra-index-url https://pypi.chia.net/simple/ chia-blockchain==1.3.4 miniupnpc==2.2.2

WSL2

You can run chia-blockchain in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS via WSL2 on Windows.

NOTE: WSL2 plotting is currently only slightly faster than plotting on the native windows client. WSL2 requires significant tweaking to set up correctly. If you find that daunting, it’s probably easier to just use the native windows client.

You can not run the GUI as WSL2 doesn’t yet support graphical interfaces from WSL2.

Check if you already have WSL2 or WSL1 installed:

From PowerShell, type:

If you get a listing of help topics for wsl commands, you have WSL1, and need to upgrade. To upgrade, follow the instructions here. If you get a blank result or a listing of installed Linux versions, you have WSL2 and are OK to proceed.

If WSL is not installed:

From an Administrator PowerShell:

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all

You will be prompted to reboot.

Installing a new WSL2 instance:

Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS from the Microsoft Store and run it and complete its initial install steps. You now have a linux bash shell environment that can run linux native software on Windows.

Install from source — WSL2

See install from source for detailed instruction.

Running a standalone Windows wallet gui is deprecated but may return in later versions. You can run the Windows version and share keys. You can also plot in WSL2 and migrate the plots to a Windows farmed plot directory.

Increasing the WSL Maximum Storage Capacity

WSL2 uses a Virtual Hardware Disk (VHD) to store files, and it automatically resizes as files grow. However, the VHD has an initial maximum size of 256 GB. Therefore, the default WSL2 VHD is probably only capable of plotting k=30 plots. To plot anything larger, you will need to increase the maximum allowable size. Follow the guide here.

Setting a maximum limit to WSL2 memory access

If you try plotting Chia in WSL2 without limiting the memory access, WSL2 will use 100% of your available machine’s memory, and your computer will get bogged down and begin swapping memory to your hard drive. This will severely cripple your plotting speeds. To set the maximum memory that WSL2 is allowed to use, create a configuration file as described in this guide.

WSL VHD Plotting Nuances

Plotting within WSL2 can write to either the native VHD (which is EXT4) or to any other drive, which can be NTFS or any other FS-type. Writing to the native VHD is faster than writing out to another drive.

Plotting uses three commands for directory control:

-t for initial temp directory. Phases 1 and 2 happen here.

-2 for secondary temp directory. Phase 3 (compression) happens here.

-d for final destination. Phase 4 happens here.

Plotting works such that -t and -2 require the exact same amount of storage space. Therefore, if -t and -2 point to the same drive, that drive needs 2x the final file size + 1x the max working file size.

For maximum speed, -t and -2 should be inside the WSL2 filesystem. Something like: -t ~/chia_temp -2 ~/chia_temp. Just beware that the WSL2 VHD will need a much larger maximum capacity.

-d can point to any other drive for the final destination.

Amazon Linux 2

Install from source — Amazon Linux 2

See install from source for detailed instruction.

Install from binary package

# Install chia-blockchain as a binary package
python3.7 -m venv venv
ln -s venv/bin/activate
. ./activate
pip install --upgrade pip

pip install --extra-index-url https://pypi.chia.net/simple/ chia-blockchain==1.3.0 miniupnpc==2.1

Other install methods and environments

• Raspberry Pi 4
• Docker
• FreeBSD Install
• Ubuntu Binary Install
• OpenBSD Install

You need Python 3.7 or newer.

Chia strives to provide binary wheels for modern systems. If your system does not have binary wheels, you may need to install development tools to build some Python extensions from source. If you’re attempting to install from source, setting the environment variable BUILD_VDF_CLIENT to N will skip trying to build Timelord components that aren’t very cross platform, e.g. export BUILD_VDF_CLIENT=N.

Create a virtual environment

Your installation goes inside a virtual environment.

There are lots of ways to create and manage a virtual environment. This is just one.

python3.7 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip

Wheels can be in source or binary format. Binary wheels are specific to an operating system and python version number. Source wheels require development tools.

Chia hosts some binary wheels that are not available from PyPI. This step is optional, but it may succeed where building from source can take a while or fail in hard-to-debug ways. If wheels are not available for your system, this step will fail. But you can try it anyway.

pip install -i https://pypi.chia.net/simple/ miniupnpc==2.1 zstd

Install chia-blockchain.

pip install chia-blockchain==1.3.0

Before you use chia-blockchain in future, you must «enter» your virtual environment.

source venv/bin/activate
chia -h

Install from source

*This instruction is for MacOS, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat, WSL2, Amazon Linux 2 and possibly *NIX like OSes.

# Prerequisite: git 

git clone https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain.git -b latest
cd chia-blockchain

# This installs compatible Python modules
sh install.sh
. ./activate

# If you want to debug/develop GUI app, try to install from source
# This installs supported version NodeJS/npm and npm dependencies.
sh install-gui.sh

# To open GUI app, run the following command
bash start-gui.sh

Update from source

*This instruction is for MacOS, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat, WSL2, Amazon Linux 2 and possibly *NIX like OSes.
To Update/Upgrade from the previous version

cd chia-blockchain
. ./activate
chia stop -d all
deactivate
git fetch
git checkout latest
git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD --recurse-submodules

# If you get RELEASE.dev0 then delete the package-lock.json in chia-blockchain-gui and install.sh again

git status

# git status should say "nothing to commit, working tree clean", 
# if you have uncommitted changes, RELEASE.dev0 will be reported.

sh install.sh

. ./activate

chia init

# The GUI requires you have windowing system installed.
# You can not install and run the GUI as root
cd chia-blockchain-gui
git fetch
cd ..
chmod +x ./install-gui.sh
./install-gui.sh

# Run the GUI app
bash start-gui.sh

Troubleshooting

Sometimes stray daemons left over from previously running processes will cause strange bugs/errors when upgrading to a new version. Make sure all daemons and chia processes are killed before installing or upgrading.

This is normally done by executing chia stop -d all from the upgrade example above.
But it doesn’t hurt to double check using ps -Af | grep chia to make sure there are no chia processes left running. You may have to manually kill the chia daemon if an install and chia start was performed without first running chia stop -d all

If all else fails, rebooting the machine and restarting the chia daemon/processes usually does the trick.

Testnets

To join a testnet, follow the instructions on the How to Connect to the Testnet article.

It is recommended that you keep a separate testnet environment by prepending CHIA_ROOT="~/.chia/testnetx" to all of your cli commands. For example, CHIA_ROOT="~/.chia/testnet10 chia init. An easier way to do this is to run export CHIA_ROOT="~/.chia/testnet10" so that all commands will use testnet10 instead of mainnet. If you’re using a version above 1.2.11 (currently in beta), you can update all config values to the testnet values by running chia configure -t true.

This page is the only official source for Chia client installer downloads. Do not trust downloads from other sources.

The Chia client can be used as either a light wallet or a full node + farmer.

Don’t know where to begin? Check out our Beginner’s Guide on the Wiki. Detailed Installation instructions and source code can be found on Github.

Note: Windows installer does NOT support Windows 7!

What is Chia?

Chia Blockchain is a new cryptocurrency that uses Proof of Space and Time. Instead of using expensive hardware that consumes exorbitant amounts of electricity to mine cryptos, it leverages existing empty hard disk space on your computer(s) to farm cryptos with minimal resources, such as electricity.

There is a lot of enthusiasm around Chia Blockchain because it was created by Bram Cohen, who is one of the founders of BitTorrent and the creator of the torrenting concept. BitTorrent is considered as one of the most brilliant technology innovations in last two decades.

For more information, please refer to https://www.chia.net

How to Farm Chia Coin (XCH)

Prerequisites

The prerequisite are easy, and they are as follows:

• Working computer with Windows, MacOS or Linux installed. It is recommended to use a newer computer with an SSD.

NOTE: There is no need to use a dedicated computer to farm chia coin. Just use the computer you use regularly. Chia will farm chia coin in the background. A desktop computer is preferred over a laptop because it is harder to move the laptop around with attached external drives(s).

1. A solid-state hard drive (SSD). 250 GB or greater is required. You can also use an external SSD (e.g., Samsung T7 Portable SSD [Link to Amazon]) if your free disk space is less than 250 GB. An SSD is 10x (in read) to 20x times (in write) faster than HDD.
2. External Hard Disk Drive (HDD) larger sizes are better [link to drives article]. A popular size is 18 TB at the time of this article.
3. Chia Blockchain software.

NOTE: Both SSD and HDD prices went up recently due to the popularity of Chia Blockchain, which launched on March 19th, 2021. There is a scarcity of both SSD and HDD in China.

If you are looking for a new PC build, check out our Budget Build Guide as well as our most popular build featuring the Intel NUC. Both of these PCs will serve you very well after your Chia plotting is done.

If you need to upgrade your existing consumer SSD to something with a little more endurance, we have a great SSD Buying Guide as well as our favorite consumer SSDs for plotting.

Install Chia Blockchain software

To install Chia Blockchain software:

NOTE: I will be using Windows since a majority of people use Windows at home.

1. Navigate to https://www.chia.net on your browser.
2. Click on the “Install Chia Blockchain” button, which will navigate you to INSTALL · Chia-Network/chia-blockchain Wiki · GitHub
3. Click on Install the Windows installer — “Chia Blockchain Windows” link to download “ChiaSetup” software.
4. Click on “ChiaSetup” software to install.
5. “ChiaSetup” will install Chia Blockchain software on your computer for you automatically. It installs software on /Users/Your Username/.chia directory.
6. When Windows Defender Firewall prompts for access, click on the “Allow access” button.

You have installed Chia Blockchain software on your computer!

Setup Chia Blockchain software

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1. Click on the “CREATE A NEW PRIVATE KEY” button.
2. Chia Blockchain software will create a new wallet for you with a series of mnemonics words, as shown below. Make sure you use your smartphone to take a picture to store this key somewhere safe.

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NOTE: Please do not use the above wallet key. This is provided for reference purposes only.

1. Click the “NEXT” button to start using Chia Blockchain software. If Windows Defender Firewall prompts for access, click on the “Allow access” button.
2. You will navigate to the main screen, also called the “Full Node” as shown below.

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1. The first thing Chia software does is to synchronize (i.e., catch up with all the recent changes in the network — i.e., Blocks) with Chia Blockchain. Syncing will take up to a couple of hours to complete. Expect both numbers — 1344 and 47773 to change while synching. When syncing is complete, the status will change to “Synched,” as shown below.

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Plot Chia Blockchain

There are two distinct parts of being a Chia farmer. First, you will need to create a series of plots then you can farm those plots to be rewarded with Chia Coin (XCH). For more information on plotting, please refer to https://www.chia.net/2021/02/22/plotting-basics.html.

In this section, we are going to focus on the process of creating Chia plots. Always plot using an SSD since this is a very intensive read/write operation, and it will take exponentially more time on an HDD.

1. To create plots, navigate to the “Plots” screen as shown below.

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1. Click on the “ADD A PLOT” button to create a plot.

The following are recommended settings:

a. Plot Size: It should be 101.4GiB (k=32, temporary space: 239Gib) as recommended by Chia Network. You can select different plot sizes, but it will take exponentially longer to create a plot, and more than 90% of plots in the network are k=32.

b. Choose Number of Plots: This depends on how much free disk space you have on your SSD since each plot needs about 250GiB to complete. Use this as your guide:

• 270Gib Free Diskspace on SSD: 1 Plot
• 540Gib Free Diskspace on SSD: 2 Plots
• 810Gib Free Diskspace on SSD: 3 Plots
• 1,080Gib Free Diskspace on SSD: 4 Plots
• 1,350Gib Free Diskspace on SSD: 5 Plot

NOTE: Always select “Plot in Parallel” and select between 0 and 60-minute delay to complete more plots at a shorter time. In my experience, plotting one plot or up to four plots in parallel takes about the same amount of time. So, plot as many as you can in parallel.

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c. Select Temporary Directory: Select a directory on your SSD.

d. Select Final Directory: Select a directory on your external HDD. SSD is used to create plots, not to farm plots.

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e. Finally, click on “CREATE PLOT” to create a plot. It is expected to take between 6 to 12 hours on average to complete a plot. If you are plotting more than three plots in parallel, then your computer resource, such as CPU and RAM, will be taxed more.

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NOTE:

1. At the time of this article, plotting stalls in two places. It seems to stall at both 31% and 100% for a long time. This is expected, and you should not be alarmed. 31% represents phase 2/4 process where the status will not change until phase 2 is completed, maybe a bug. 100% represents the fact plotting is completed and moving the completed plot file from SSD to HDD. It could take up to 1 hour to move the completed plot file.
2. If a plot fails for any reason(s), then you will need to start the plotting process from the beginning. Be sure to delete any temp files in Temporary Directory since they will not get deleted.
3. The plot file is named: “plot-k32-yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-[a series of alphanumeric words].plot” and they are about 108.9 GiB in size.
4. Four phases of plotting are:
   1. Computing table (table 1 to 7)
   2. Backpropagating table (table 1 to 7)
   3. Compressing table (table 1 to 7)
   4. Write checkpoint tables

Farm Chia Blockchain

To farm Chia Blockchain, you do not have to do anything since all completed plot(s) start Farming right away, where you compete to be rewarded with Chia Coin (XCH).

This is where Chia Farming gets interesting. Farming becomes a never-ending race to plot more so you can increase the total size of Plots in your Farm. The larger your Farm is, the greater your chance of being rewarded with Chia Coin (XCH). You are competing against all other farms on the network, which is growing exponentially.

To estimate how much you can earn from farming the Chia Coin (XCH), please refer to a nice online worksheet at Chia Calculator — How much can I earn farming Chia?

To see how fast Chia Blockchain is growing, please refer to Chia Explorer Chia cryptocurrency blockchain explorer (chiaexplorer.com).

How Do I Get Rewarded in Chia Coin (XCH)?

Your Chia farm will have 4,608 chances per day to win 2 Chia Coin (XCH). To be rewarded Chia Coin (XCH), your plot needs to pass the filter then compete with all other passed plots for the best proof of space to be rewarded Chia Coin (XCH).

1. Plots Passed Filter: An algorithm ensures your plot has 1/512 chances of passing a filter. A plot should pass the filter about eighteen times in a 24-hour period.

NOTE: You should see regular occurrences of your plots passing the filter, like 1 / Number of plots in your Farm, instead of 0 / Number of plots in your Farm.

1. Proofs Found: Once a plot passes the plot filter, it competes for the best proof of space with every other plot that also passed the plot filter. Each plot is competing to have the best proof of space where the chances of getting a reward are dependant on the total size of plots in your Farm.

NOTE: A plot is a set of Proofs of Space where there are about 40 Proof of Spaces per plot.

Some Chia farmers get lucky. There have been instances where they’re awarded Chia Coin (XCH) with just one plot, as shown below.

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In most instances, your results will vary.

How Much Would I Earn from Chia Coin (XCH)

Currently, there is no pricing on Chia Coin (XCH). Transactions of Chia Coin (XCH) will be enabled on May 3rd, 2021, where we may find some more clarity at that time.

Meanwhile, there are a couple of futures markets that are trading Chia Coin (XCH) IOUs. I’m not familiar with these markets, so I have no comments on this.

Chia Farmer Pools

At the time of this article, pooling is not officially supported but is in development. When mining cryptocurrency, most people join existing pools (i.e., many Miners working together to win more regularly and predictably.)

Likely, you will not be able to re-use plots you have previously created and use them in a Chia farming pool. You will need to re-plot when you join a pool.

Other Considerations in Farming for Chia Coin (XCH)

The following are some other considerations when farming for Chia Coin (XCH):

1. Try to minimize stopping and re-starting Chia Blockchain software as much as possible since it could take up to 1 hour or more to complete synchronization. You will not be able to farm until synchronization is complete.
2. When farming for Chia Coin (XCH) on a Windows computer, change the power setting to “Never” Sleep.
3. When you want to expand your Chia Farm operation: you may want two or more computers set up where one set of computers are plotting and another set of computers are farming/harvesting.
4. You can have multiple computer(s) running Chia Blockchain software using the same key. Instead of creating a new wallet, select “IMPORT FROM MNEMONICS” and enter the twenty-four-word mnemonics in the correct order.
5. Plotting is faster on a Linux computer (tested on Ubuntu with the same hardware configuration as Windows) compared to a Windows computer.
6. When you uninstall Chia Blockchain software on a Windows computer, the wallet keys are not deleted. You will have to delete wallet keys using Chia Blockchain software via the “DELETE ALL KEYS” option.
7. The Chia Blockchain software is not fully mature. We see software updates every few days or even on the same day.

Start farming Chia Coin (XCH) and prosper!

Sung Kim

Sung Kim initially published this article on Medium. It has been modified and used with the authors’ permission.

Source: https://chiadecentral.com/the-beginners-guide-to-farming-chia-coin-on-windows/

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