FlexPool recently released their FlexFarmer 2.0, full of all the usual ridiculous claims from them. If you use it you are sure to win more blocks, make more money, get a better car, bigger house, better spouse. But is it perfect? No, the answer is always no for software. Software is not perfect in any…
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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…
A call for FlexPool to open the source code for FlexFarmer
Yesterday FlexPool released into open beta their lightweight farming client. It is completely rewritten from the ground up, does not require a wallet or full node running and synced to farm and has very little CPU usage. But because of the architecture, there are some major issues with FlexFarmer that I think can only be…
A response from Chia Network to FlexPool’s FlexFarmer software
Edit: To be clear, it is now known after review that FlexFarmer does not send keys to FlexPool and that the farmer continues to sign farmed blocks locally. After FlexPool released their FlexFarmer software into open beta yesterday. It works completely differently, architecturally, from the official Chia client. Instead of having every farmer act as…
All about pools – The big dog, Flexpool
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…
