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[![Twitter][badge-twitter]][link-twitter] | Chia is a modern cryptocurrency built from scratch, designed to be efficient, decentralized, and secure. Here are some of the features and benefits: - [Proof of space and time][link-consensus] based consensus which allows anyone to farm with commodity hardware - Very easy to use full node and farmer GUI and cli (thousands of nodes active on mainnet) - [Chia seeder][link-seeder], which maintains a list of reliable nodes within the Chia network via a built-in DNS server. - Simplified UTXO based transaction model, with small on-chain state - Lisp-style Turing-complete functional [programming language][link-chialisp] for money related use cases - BLS keys and aggregate signatures (only one signature per block) - [Pooling protocol][link-pool] that allows farmers to have control of making blocks - Support for light clients with fast, objective syncing - A growing community of farmers and developers around the world Please check out the [Chia website][link-chia], the [Intro to Chia][link-intro], and [FAQ][link-faq] for information on this project. Python 3.10+ is required. Make sure your default python version is >=3.10 by typing `python3`. If you are behind a NAT, it can be difficult for peers outside your subnet to reach you when they start up. You can enable [UPnP][link-upnp] on your router or add a NAT (for IPv4 but not IPv6) and firewall rules to allow TCP port 8444 access to your peer. These methods tend to be router make/model specific. Most users should only install harvesters, farmers, plotter, full nodes, and wallets. Setting up a seeder is best left to more advanced users. Building Timelords and VDFs is for sophisticated users, in most environments. Chia Network and additional volunteers are running sufficient Timelords for consensus. ## Installing Install instructions are available in the [Installation Details][link-install] section of the [Chia Docs][link-docs]. ## Running Once installed, an [Intro to Chia][link-intro] guide is available in the [Chia Docs][link-docs]. 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