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Chia: proofs of space and time as a consensus

Chia publishes consensus from proofs of space, checked across time, so farmers allocate disk rather than continuous hash power.

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Authors: Bram Cohen and the Chia Network
Date: 2019
Publisher: Bram Cohen and the Chia Network
Version: Source cited by the 2019 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0717
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Chia publishes consensus from proofs of space, checked across time, so farmers allocate disk rather than continuous hash power.

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Official source — Chia consensus introduction
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Relationships

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Author–date

Cohen, B., & the Chia Network (2019). Chia: proofs of space and time as a consensus. Bram Cohen and the Chia Network. https://docs.chia.net/chia-blockchain/consensus/consensus-intro

BibTeX

@techreport{chiaconsensus2019,
  title = {Chia: proofs of space and time as a consensus},
  author = {Bram Cohen and the Chia Network},
  year = {2019},
  institution = {Bram Cohen and the Chia Network},
  url = {https://docs.chia.net/chia-blockchain/consensus/consensus-intro},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/chia-consensus}
}

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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