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How to install and farm Chia on MacOS?

MacOS Big Sur Recommended (Apple Silicon/Intel)

Install Chia using the MacOS installer in 3 simple steps

  1. Visit the Chia website download page.
  2. Scroll down to Your MacOS version and download the Chia Blockchain for MacOS.
  3. Install and run the Chia Blockchain.

That's it, well done! Check out our Plotting Guide & Farming Guide

Install Chia & GUI via Terminal
  1. git clone https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain.git -b latest
  2. cd chia-blockchain
  3. sh install.sh
  4. . ./activate
  5. sh install-gui.sh
  6. cd chia-blockchain-gui
  7. npm run electron &

There are commands available in /Applications/Chia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/daemon Try ./chia -h or ./chia plots -h for example. You can view your debug.log as it runs in from Terminal, tail -f ~/.chia/mainnet/log/debug.log.

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