> Chia replaces Nakamoto’s energy hungry proof-of-work consensus with an
eco-friendly proof-of-space.<p>Don't be fooled, proof-of-space will eat up SSDs like no tomorrow and you're still hoarding HDDs for little gain.<p>Proofs of space prove that you're storing some useless data. Typically you use HDDs to store the useless data, but to prepare such a HDD you need an SSD. The setup process will perform so many writes that the SSD will be garbage very soon.