# Chia [Chia](https://www.chia.net/) is a modern cryptocurrency built from scratch, designed to be efficient,decentralized, and secure. Key file is stored in `/plots/keyfile` and is generated automatically, if the file does not exist. If you want to use your own `keyfile`, you can create a file called `keyfile` in the `/plots` directory and it will be used instead. When set on harvester mode keys variable is set to none and no generation is performed.