Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Opens for Chia Pool Party

Backblaze, Inc. will support storage for pooled Chia cryptocurrency plots in addition to the full plot storage it recently offered.

Chia’s long-awaited ‘pooling’ functionality allows farmers to gather their plots, increasing their chance of winning challenges, the proceeds from which are then shared among pool members.

The company recently explained their approach to farming Chia on their object storage platform, B2 Cloud Storage, and shared that this solution extends to pooling. Success for Chia farmers demand massive scale-Chia netspace already tops 30EB of data – and this announcement provides for those farmers struggling with the Chia-driven drive shortage.

Also, in a blog post, the firm shared the behind-the-scenes analysis supporting their decision not to farm Chia on their own platform, but reaffirming that B2 Cloud Storage is open to individuals or pools seeking to try their own hand at Chia.

“Chia is yet another use case where customers need a proven storage cloud platform such as Backblaze to build upon,” said Nilay Patel, co-founder and VP, solution engineering and sales. “Businesses and consumers alike need easy, trusted, affordable cloud storage if they want to be on the leading edge of technologies that will shape tomorrow.“

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Blog: Chia Analysis: To Farm, or Not to Farm?