1 Name：Chives
English name: Chives
English abbreviation: XCC (XCC Chives)
ICO: No
Pre-Mine: No
Description: Forked from Chia
Block time: 18.75 seconds
Block reward: 200 Chives
Block reward distribution (stages 1 and 2): 90% allocated to miners (180 XCC) and 10% to the community (20 XCC)
Block reward distribution (stage 3): 45% is allocated to miners, 45% is allocated to Master Nodes and 10% is allocated to the community.
Reward halving: Halving in 3 years, to a block reward of 12.5 Chives from the 13th year
Total issuance: No upper limit
Need to Replot(Can not use chia plots)
Chives is an eco-friendly decentralization blockchain based on the Proof of Space and Time (PoST). As a completely decentralized, no reservation, no ICO, and community autonomy cryptocurrency, it can create a low-power, green and environmentally friendly blockchain system.
2 How does it work?
Chives uses the free disk space on the hard disk for Proof-of-Space (PoSpace) consensus, along with another consensus algorithm, Proof of Time (PoTime) to verify the blockchain.
The income of Chives farmers is proportional to the amount of allocated storage space; if you have 10 times the space, you will earn 10 times the reward.
3 What is a Chives Farm?
Running a Chives Farm is similar to mining, but using hard drive storage space instead of processing power. During block creation a snapshot the network storage space is taken;
Personal income is determined by the percentage of storage space a user contributes to the total storage space on the network. The more storage space you allocate to a Chives Farm, the greater your profit.
4 What is Plotting?
To start a Chives Farm it must be plotted, a process that requires a read and write to the allocated hard drive farm space. Once your hard disk is plotted, you may become a farmer and harvest it as long as you keep the proof generated by plotting.
The initial plot process fills the farm space with random input proofs, reads the drives through direct access to the API, and then sorts them to quickly find the proofs obtained.
5 Chives mining economic model
On the blockchain of the Chives network, there is no upper limit to the total number of Chives coins that can be generated through farming rewards (farming), but block rewards will be reduced over time.
A block is generated every 18.75 seconds, and each block rewards 200 Chives. Of this, 45% is allocated to miners, another 45% is allocated to the master nodes, and 10% is allocated to the community. Halving of block rewards in 3 years, to a final reward rate of 12.5 Chives every block from the 13th year.
6 What problems does Chives solve?
1) Chia officially reserves a large number of coins.
The official developers of Chia coin reserve 21 Millions coins for their own use, which is unfair to everyone who participates in the Chia ecosystem. The 21 Millions coins officially reserved are equivalent to the total rewards to all miners mining for a consecutive 12 years. Chives is fair with no pre-mined tokens, and distributes rewards to community contributors through community consensus.
2) Chia is dominated by the large-scale mining pools.
In order to prevent the participation of large mining pools from causing too low returns for retail investors, Chives refers to Dash’s governance model: citing the concept of master nodes and community autonomy.
Anyone can become a master node by staking Chives and deploying to a public network server.
Master nodes do not participate in mining, but guarantee the diversity and health of the network, and for their contribution the master nodes will receive 45% of the block rewards.
Anyone can become a master node, which provides another channel for people to participate in community projects and receive rewards.
3) Chia’s community does not obtain block rewards.
Currently in Chia’s model, only two groups can obtain block rewards: The official team who owns Chia by reserving 21 million coins, and miners who must buy a lot of equipment and participate in mining to earn income.
All those who have done publicity and promotion for Chia have contributed, but will not receive any of the block rewards. This violates the spirit of community participation in fairness and openness.
Chives will allocate 10% of the block rewards to those who contribute to the community, including but not limited to: Chives project developers, document writers and translators, and various social media promoters for Chives.
The master nodes vote to determine which work will be funded, and the entire process is completely managed and operated by the community.