Farmers on OpenChia, the Chia pool pushing radical open source transparency, have just gotten a new way to both access their pool statistics on the fly as well as get the best and latest news about Chia right at their fingertips. That’s right, they have integrated The Chia Plot directly into their pool app launching…
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Look at how the Chia pools are doing according to XCHCentral.com
Last month one of the most interesting projects in the Chia ecosystem launched, XCHCentral.com. I have been keeping a very close eye on this and what the various Chia pools are actually paying out. I think an independent watcher keeping an eye on the pools is something that benefits us all, even the pools themselves….
All About Pools – An old time mining pool, Prohashing, joins the fray
Bitcoin / Ethereum / Litecoin and everything else mining pool Prohashing has recently announced that they would be joining the crowded field of Chia Pools, so I wanted talk to them to see why and what they were expecting to bring to the Chia pool ecosystem. And it was pretty interesting. I think they have…
Another Chia Pool bites the dust – PoolHarvest blames Chia Network
In a very different message than aChia’s shutdown yesterday, Chia Pool PoolHarvest.io has announced they are shutting down with a message on their website. This one, however, is not heartwarming and instead blames Chia and their strategic direction for the shutdown of the pool. I don’t know how that is supposed to work, as Chia…
aChia Chia Pool announces closure in heartwarming post
aChia has sadly announced its intentions to shut down their Chia Pool, for the reasons I have been outlining. It is simply not profitable at anywhere near the current price of XCH (about $159 USD at time of writing) to run anything but the biggest pools. However, they are not simply closing shop like some…
FlexPool claims their pool is more likely to win blocks – I think they are wrong
In a forum post the other day on ChiaForum.com, Flexpool made a series of claims based on a recent run of good luck they have had. You can read the whole thread linked above, but this quote is really what the gist of it hangs on. Funnily enough you make more with our pool than…
Chia Pool nodes under attack
Earlier today FlexPool posted a message to Reddit about their pool node being under attack. I had planned to write up about the attack after they had everything sorted out and had a moment to answer some questions, but it appears a second pool is under attack as well – PoolChia. Just a few minutes…
Is joining a smaller Chia pool a mistake?
No! Absolutely not! In my previous piece on exploring the differences between the various pools I mostly looked at the bigger pools, and found the biggest difference between them was the consistency of the payouts, and the frequency, but that the overall amount was basically the same. In theory that should be true for smaller…
All about pools – ChiaHub.io, a small yet honest pool
I wanted to get this entry into All about Pools out quickly, to act as a stark contrast to the behaviour we have seen from EcoChia, and the resulting coming disruption to their farmers from the Chia license revocation. ChiaHub.io was vocal in discord when the EcoChia story broke that they are an even smaller…
Chia Network revokes EcoChia Trademark license – they’re dead, Jim!
In an email to the CEO of EcoChia (whatever that means), J. Eckert (Sargonas), VP of Ecosystem Operations at Chia Network has formally revoked the trademark license for EcoChia, meaning they will need to change their name and domains. Basically, the pool is dead. This is because of the unethical behaviour we covered yesterday where…
