This one was a little bit different from the other All about Pools articles, since this is not about a set of farmers who decided to start a pool but about an established mining pool getting excited about Chia and deciding to become farmers. Flexpool.io is a Canadian Ethereum mining pool with just shy of…
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All about pools – The “first PPS pool”, MaxioPool
In today’s All About Pools we are looking at the first PPS or “Pay per share” pool, Maxiopool. At least no one else is calling themselves pay per share from what I can tell. What this means is that you get paid from the first plot you add to the network based on your share…
Chia farming pools – are they coming soon?
Looks like! We are starting to get reports from pool operators that the Phase 1 testing is underway, and that there is a good chance if everything works we will be moving on to Phase 2 when it becomes possible we will able to start plotting our portable plots. We do not have a ton…
All about pools – The elephant in the room, Hpool
This one is tricky. This is the first pool I reached out to talk to, and they have not replied to me at all. That makes it a little bit more difficult and this is going to be a bit shorter than the rest, but I would like to say a few things about my…
All about pools – Spacefarmers, an open conversation
Updated with clarification about fees, Spacefarmers will be 0 fee for more than a month, that is the minimum This one was a bit different, and interesting because of it. This pool is significantly more open and transparent than the others I have spoken to so far. There are 2 names, sort of, to attach…
All about pools – let’s talk about Core-Pool
I recently had the opportunity to talk to the developers behind Core-Pool – originally launched as Chia-Core – and get their thoughts on the current state of Chia pools and what it is like to run one of the in-progress “unofficial” pools. I will not be divulging any information that could lead to their identification,…
All about pools – deep dive into 21Chia
As the first pool operator to get back to me fully, including responding to all follow ups, the first pool to be detailed in The Chia Plot’s series on the Chia Pool situation will be 21Chia. Self described as “We’re crypto enthusiasts with decades of experience in software engineering. We ran pools during the 2014…
Are possible fake plots inflating network space and stealing rewards?
** Updated below with HPool official statement ** No. It is very possible that Hpool’s custom client is vulnerable to manipulation and to improve one’s personal payouts at the expense of the network, but it is highly implausible that those fake plots are somehow creating proofs to farm actual blocks with. This is quite literally…
Hpool joins SlowMist Zone for Blockchain Security and a bug bounty
Hpool has announced via their medium page that they will be joining the SlowMist Zone Blockchain security program. This will get them some next generation security capabilities, such as full security review of their software, threat intelligence for their network and the administration of a security bug bounty for their web site and application. This…
Hpool and other 3rd party pools
This article will be the beginning on a series about Hpool and the other 3rd party Chia pools that are starting to pop up because of the delays to the official pooling protocol. Due to the rapid expansion of netspace over the last month, individual farmers are beginning to grow nervous that they will both…
