Blockchains used to burn energy. Or demand massive capital. Now they just need disk space. Welcome to Archivas ( $RCHV ) The Proof-of-Space revolution. 🧵👇

1/ No GPUs. No staking. No waste. Just empty storage, turned into crypto rewards. Archivas is a Layer-1 blockchain running on Proof-of-Space-and-Time (PoST) the same consensus that made Chia possible.

2/ Instead of miners, you have farmers. Instead of electricity, you use space + time. Proof-of-Space: prove you’ve allocated real disk storage. Proof-of-Time: use Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) to keep block timing fair. Green. Fair. Permissionless.

3/ The Core Loop: 1️⃣ Timelord computes VDF → new challenge 2️⃣ Farmers scan plots for proofs 3️⃣ Best proof wins block 4️⃣ 20 $RCHV reward 5️⃣ Repeat No energy race. No plutocracy. Just math + storage.

4/ Why it matters: Bitcoin burns electricity. Ethereum locks capital. Archivas uses hardware everyone already has, disks. A lottery powered by space, not money or megawatts.

5/ Network Specs (Testnet-V4): • Block Time: ~25 s • Reward: 20 $RCHV • Tx Fee: ~0.001 RCHV • Block Height: 64K+ • Total Supply: ~1.28 M RCHV • Uptime: 25+ days It’s live, stable, and growing.

6/ For Users ✅ Fast (20–30 s finality) ✅ Low fees ✅ Standard mnemonics (BIP-39) ✅ Secure signatures (Ed25519) For Devs ✅ Public RPC → ✅ TypeScript SDK ✅ Explorer + CORS support For Farmers ✅ No GPUs needed ✅ Stable rewards ✅ Fair distribution

7/ Built Different (vs Chia): Written in Go, not Python ~10 K lines of code (>10× simpler) Single binary deployment SHA-256 VDF for speed Smart-contract ready from Day 1 Think Chia, but simpler, faster, developer-first.

8/ Modern Cryptography ✅ Ed25519 signatures ✅ BIP-39 mnemonics ✅ Bech32 addresses (arcv…) ✅ Blake2b hashing ✅ RFC 8785 canonical JSON Small signatures, fast verification, hardware wallet-ready.

9/ Energy & Accessibility Bitcoin → 150 TWh/yr Archivas → ~1 kWh/yr per farmer PoW = ASICs PoS = stake PoST = storage Decentralized by design.

10/ Use Cases (Testnet → Mainnet): • Decentralized file storage • Archival records / data availability • Low-fee payments • DeFi + programmable storage • Smart contracts backed by proof-of-replication Storage becomes security and utility.

11/ Why Now? ✅ PoST proven by Chia (>10 EB farm capacity) ✅ Disks cheap ($15 / TB) ✅ Developers want green blockchains ✅ Go ecosystem ready Archivas is the next evolution : clean code, real utility.