In a very sad announcement on Discord the operators of TruePool have set February 1st as the last day for the pool to run. TruePool is a Chia pool made up of team members from TrueNas and was one of the only real bridges between the traditional storage / datahoarder community and the Chia farming…
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OpenChia launches pool app with The Chia Plot integration
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…
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…
How to tell which Chia pools are faking netspace
An interesting result of the recent Dust Storm and issues with low powered clients is that MiningPoolStats right now has a pretty good indicator of which Chia pools are faking netspace and who is at least reporting automatically from their code. This is super fascinating to me and came to me via someone who would…
XCHCentral.com launches new pool monitoring service
A new service meant to objectively test the various Chia pools has launched, XCHCentral.com is promising to keep an eye on the pools and how they are doing from an objective sense. This is a very important project if done well and I plan to support them as much as possible. This will be critical…
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…
More Chia Pool mergers – 21Chia and ChiaHub join forces
ChiaHub is on a tear here, soon after their merger with Chiamine they are taking on another pool, 21Chia. In an announcement on both their discords, the two pools have announced they are merging and that 21Chia will be shutting down. I think 21Chia is a great Chia pool, and I’m a little sad they…
Are Chinese pools gone for good?
With the recent news of additional cryptocurrency crackdowns in China via the People’s Bank of China there has been some speculation about what that would mean for the various cryptocurrency services, including crypto exchanges based there and the Chinese pools like Hpool. First the crypto exchanges. Huobi has announced that they will be scaling back…
