For the past 2 months, Chia (XCH) has been creating a huge hype around the forums and social media platforms with their promise to reward all users that have more than 101Gb of space available and are interested to plot it.
The marketing was indeed very successful and the global storage market has faced unprecedented sales and has seen most stock being depleted quickly.
The only and main issue is the official protocol is supporting to date (07.07.2021) only the Solo Mining version, which for the average user who might spare 1TB to create 10 plots, has 1 chance in over 10 years to hit the rewards.
The entire community is holding their breath for the official pool protocol, however, insights are suggesting that we will be seeing the pool protocol going live on the mainnet nowhere sooner than the 3rd week of July, so hold on there, the fair rewards are on their way!
I am really excited to see the launch and also put those old external drives to work, atleast for the internet and electricity bll :)