> Chia replaces Nakamoto’s energy hungry proof-of-work consensus with an
eco-friendly proof-of-space.
Don't be fooled, proof-of-space will eat up SSDs like no tomorrow and you're still hoarding HDDs for little gain.
Proofs of space prove that you're storing some useless data. Typically you use HDDs to store the useless data, but to prepare such a HDD you need an SSD. The setup process will perform so many writes that the SSD will be garbage very soon.
Don't be fooled, proof-of-space will eat up SSDs like no tomorrow and you're still hoarding HDDs for little gain.
Proofs of space prove that you're storing some useless data. Typically you use HDDs to store the useless data, but to prepare such a HDD you need an SSD. The setup process will perform so many writes that the SSD will be garbage very soon.