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Buy the drives you need before ‘chia’ gets them all

Posted on May 10, 2021 at 01:06 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

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By Brian Livingston

Prices of high-capacity solid-state drives (SSDs) have almost doubled at the producer level just in the past few weeks — and shortages are already affecting us. The cause is a new kind of cryptocurrency that demands vast amounts of disk space around the world for its financial network to function.

The new digital coins, which began trading only a week ago, bear the odd moniker of “chia.”

Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.17.0 (2021-05-10).

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