As farming the Chia Blockchain can sometimes be boring we made up some milkmaid bills out of thin air just for entertainment purposes. Not totally out of thin air as we use data gathered from our farms, from the blockchain and some third party sources. We then put them all together with some simple math to get more or less useless results.
Disclosure
We are part of the Seagate authorized reseller partner program and therefore the data and prices taken for our calculations are from Seagate products.
Blockchain numbers
We start with some general numbers regarding the Chia blockchain. For now we are limiting it to the basics blockheight and netspace.
Current blockheight: 3107605
Current netspace:
23,592,830,830,031,998,976 Bytes
Current netspace in Pebibytes(2⁵⁰ Bytes):
20,954.64 PiB
Current netspace in Petabytes(10¹⁵ Bytes):
23,592.83 PB
Current netspace in Exbibytes(2⁶⁰ Bytes):
20.46 EiB
Current netspace in Exabytes(10¹⁸ Bytes):
23.59 EB
Farm numbers
Here we give you some numbers of our farms from where we are going to extract some averages to further break down the blockchain numbers from before.
Plotted space:
6,096,469,177,462,960 Bytes
5.41 PiB
Plotcount:
56,024 k32
Average plotsize:
108,818,884,361 Bytes
Spinning hardrives:
351 Seagate HDDs
Avg. plotcount per harddisk:
160 K32 Plot/HDD
What if k32
Now we are going to make some things up for the first time. How many k32 plots would be farmed if only k32 sized plots would exist. This is pretty simple we just take the current netspace and divide it by the average k32 plotsize we have in our farm.
Worldwide k32 plotcount:
216,808,240
What if k32 on 20TB
So now we have a number with which we can work on real hardware. For this we take one of our current highest capacity hard drives, the Seagate model ST20000NM007D. We can currently fit 183 k32 plots on this 20TB harddrive. So lets find out how many of these drives would be needed to hold all k32 plots.
Exos 20TB needed:
1,184,745 20TB harddrives
Let's talk money
As we are buying a reasonable amount of Seagate harddrives and also sometimes sell a few, we just pull our net sell price of € 329 from the database and multiplicate it with the made up number of world wide harddrives. This numbers are now getting even further away from the reallity as most farmers hopefully are working with a way lower price/TB by using refurbished/recertified/white label drives. For the fun we go with brand new Exos branded Seagate X20 20TB SATA harddrives.
Net worth of harddrives:
€ 389,781,105
That's electrifying
How much energy does the blockchain use if we assume the made up numbers are in some way correct. We know the power consumption of our farm(2,811 Watts) and break it down to the power consumption of one k32 plot. Which is 0.05 Watts per plot and multiply this with the total amount of k32 plots worldwide.
Worldwide powerconsumption:
10,877,527 Watt
10,878 Kilowatt
11 Megawatt
To the moon
Now we are going to calculate the serious stuff. If you take a look at the datesheet of the Seagate Exos X20 20TB harddrive you will see, that it has a thickness(height) of 26.1mm. If we now take the product of all needed harddrives with the thickness we get a toal height of 30921844.5mm for all drives needed to currently run the Chia consens algorithm. The distance to the moon is according to wikipedia.com on an average 384400000000mm.
So we wouldn't have reached the moon by now and are still lacking 384369078155.5mm to reach it. But what if we would not go by the height but by the length of the Seagate Exos X20 20TB drives? According to the datasheet the length of one harddrive is 147mm which makes a total of 174157515mm when multiplicated with the total amount of harddrives. Which is, unfortunatly, still not enough to reach the moon. We will dig deeper and make up some statistics to the reach the moon soon.
