{"id":44255,"date":"2021-06-14T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=44255"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:08:52","slug":"developer-builds-a-chia-plot-in-42-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/developer-builds-a-chia-plot-in-42-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer builds a Chia plot in 42 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A developer by the handle madMAx43vr has published to the public <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/madMAx43v3r\/chia-plotter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his own Chia plotter<\/a>, which enables the creation of Chia plots far faster than the official tool.<\/p>\n<p>According to tests on a dual-processor server with Intel Xeon E5-2650v2@2.60GHz, 256 GB RAM and three 800 GB SATA SSDs in RAID0, a Chia plot took 42 minutes. The plotter used only 16 CPU threads.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve this result, the developer had to create a temporary RAM disk of 110 GB in RAM. This also reduced the total number of disk writes during plotting by about 75%.<\/p>\n<p>According to the developer, plots created with his device pass correctness checks using the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Chia-Network\/chiapos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chiapos Proof of Space<\/a> tool.<\/p>\n<p>The YouTube channel Sloth Tech TV also tested the plotter and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iOsJUKmAD64&#038;t=10s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set a new record<\/a>, creating a Chia plot in just 24 minutes. Enthusiasts ran it on a dual-processor server with Intel Xeon E5-2690v2, using 40 CPU threads and 64 GB of RAM.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, on a PC with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 processor, creating a single plot with the official plotter takes on average 284 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, madMAx43vr plans to add OpenCL support to move a larger portion of calculations from the CPU to the GPU. Potentially this will again drive up demand for GPUs, affecting their prices.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Bram Cohen, the creator of the coin, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/chia-creators-warn-of-potential-vulnerability-in-the-hpool-pool\">to abandon unofficial pools<\/a>. The Poolchia project launched its own protocol on May 30, with preregistration open. It will support trusted pools with low fees, between which users will be able to switch.<\/p>\n<p>On June 10, Huobi Pool launched <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/media-huobi-to-launch-pool-for-mining-chia\">the beta version of a pool for mining Chia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news stream, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A developer by the handle madMAx43vr has released to the public his own Chia plotter, which enables creating Chia plots far faster than the official tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2132,1137,1192],"class_list":["post-44255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-chia-network","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-developers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44257,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44255\/revisions\/44257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}