In today’s entry in our All about Pools series, we are looking at TruePool. TruePool is an on-chain Chia Pool developed and managed by the iXsystems development team behind the TrueNAS network storage distribution. This one is really interesting to me because TrueNAS has been a real player in the DIY NAS space for many…
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All about pools – Pool4Chia, casting a wide net
In our next in the All about Pools series, we are taking a look at Pool4Chia. Pool4Chia are describing themselves as a set of Chia whales that are looking to throw their weight into a pool to help small farmers. I suspect it has more to do with the potential profits of running a major…
How to choose a pool?
As pools are coming closer and closer every day and some pools already started to operate on the “beta” or unreleased pooling protocol it might be the best time to choose, which pool you will join. Currently at the miningpoolstats website there are over 150 different pools. That’s an overwhelming lot of pools to choose…
All about Pools – MyChiaPool, a friendly co-op
In a continuation of my series All about Pools I had the opportunity to speak to MyChiaPool, a set of experienced crypto farmers and programmers who, like a lot of us, got frustrated when the netspace started to edge them out of block wins and decided to do something about it. Their team includes a…
Chia Pools – A mini review
Thank you to MaxioPool, as well as a few other pools launching immediately into mainnet, I have spent the last couple days looking into the on-chain pooling protocol and looking at a few different pools, and I have some thoughts. Maxiopool was kind enough to let me into their testnet9 implementation so that I could…
All about pools – Foxypool, playing both angles
Like Flexpool, Foxypool is an established cryptocurrency pool that decided to get into Chia pooling for reasons we will expand below. Unlike Flexpool they are focused entirely on storage based coins from what I can tell. Also uniquely they are already running a pool with their own custom code, as well as launching an on-chain…
Pools are starting to go live on Mainnet
Pools with the official pooling protocol are starting to go live on mainnet already. We are currently in Phase 2 of the testing process, akin to a beta test, and there is a good chance that nothing more will change. But there is a 25% chance that a breaking change is still made, so before…
Pooling protocol enters Phase 2
The pooling protocol has entered Phase 2 according to an announcement on Keybase by Gene Hoffman. This is exciting news and means there is a good probability that plots made with test code will work in production. I have been told, and am awaiting verification, that the Mad Max plotter can plot to an nft…
All about pools – Roundup to date
In case you missed it, we have been doing interviews with the various pool operators and writing a little bit about them – information you cant find on their websites. We don’t focus on things like pool fees and and promises, but get a sense of the people running the pools themselves and what their…
Foxypool farming pool now supports Flax
Apparently you can farm your Flax coin, or XFX, in an off-chain farming pool with Foxypool. This is great news for the fledgling Chia fork, and will help farmers on that network gain rewards from their farm. It might be surprising if you haven’t been following Flax, but it is growing very rapidly. The netspace…
