Amazon offers the Chia cryptocurrency mining solution on AWS.
Tech giant Amazon On its AWS cloud computing platform, it has provided a solution for mining Chia cryptocurrency.
According to a challenge page on Amazon AWS's Chinese site, the platform advertised that users could deploy a peer-to-peer storage system to mine XCH, the native cryptocurrency of the Chia network, in as little as five minutes.
The campaign page also offers a quick tutorial on how to use their cloud services to generate a Chia wallet address, create a plan, and then start farming. The service appears to be specifically targeting Chinese users as the campaign page is only in Simplified Chinese.
It is unclear exactly when Amazon AWS started promoting this solution, but it is another sign of the increasing level of attention and interest that Chia mining has received. .
What is chia?
Chia was created in August 2017 to create an improved blockchain and smart transaction platform.
The company is building the Chia Network to improve global financial and payment systems.
Chia is the first enterprise-grade digital currency.
Chia uses the first new Nakamoto consensus algorithm since Bitcoin.
It's called Proof of Space and Time and was created by Bram Cohen, the best living network protocol engineer and inventor of BitTorrent.
Chialisp is Chia's new smart transaction programming language that is powerful, easy to manage, and secure.
The currently available smart reference transactions are:
Atomic swaps, authorized payers, recoverable wallets, multi-purpose wallets, and rate-limited wallets.
