Ha, sadly my measly k32 plot is saying I'll win a block in 8 months. Still, it's a promising alternative to the Bitcoin blockchain. I think this might actually go somewhere. Their GUI is wonderful and dead simple to use.
The GUI is shockingly competent for a 1.0 crypto client. Everything is clear and easy to find. No lag. And it looks pretty to boot. This feels like a product made by people who may have actually known what they were doing. That said, well-designed products fail all the time. Time will tell.
I just heard the creators on the launch livestream say that hey, even if you win one XCH a year that might be enough to pay for a new computer depending on how the market ends up pricing chia so that's not so bad!
Probably cheaper to just buy one XCH then...
Not if you already have extra space on your hard drive! For example I had a couple terabytes lying around from old computers I wasn't using. It's really easy to farm on Chia — people have petabytes running off a raspberry pi.