Pool Launch AMA
With the release of the official pooling protocol late on July 7 it is now time to answer questions about pooling and generally catch up with the community. Join at least Bram and Gene - and probably more folks from the Chia team for this somewhat impromptu AMA.
(Huge, HUGE thanks to Jakub Hadamčík for the Question timestamps below!)
00:00 - Chatting
4:30 - Gene's few words for introduction (kick-off, team credits)
5:41 - Bram's few words for introduction (security, trust)
8:43 - When pools?
8:51 - Am I really not able to upgrade my existing plots to pool compatible plots?
9:12 - Is it correct that new plot files still have a .plot extension?
9:41 - If I'm not using the new pool protocol, do I have to update my client to 1.2.0 right away?
11:43 - I split my plots between multiple PlotNFTs. Can the pool track them together per wallet, or will they see each NFT as a separate farmer?
13:46 - Can you change PlotNFT names?
14:22 - How much Chia do I need to own to be able to create PlotNFT?
15:31 - How can you tell if your pool plot was plotted correctly?
17:10 - Can plot that passed difficulty 9 not pass the difficulty 10?
18:09 - Can PlotNFT plots be used with other projects?
20:19 - Can you move plots from the original PlotNFT to another existing PlotNFT?
21:30 - What exactly is a pooling wallet that's created when making PlotNFT?
22:29 - Is there any way to identify which of my plots are in pool or self-pooled?
22:43 - Should the NFT plot count in GUI show all pool plots on all farmers using that NFT or just the ones on that specific farmer?
25:04 - Can I claim an outstanding pooling reward if my pool disappears for a long enough time?
26:16 - Is k32 still ok or should I re-plot to k33?
26:48 - With a raise of seeks and proofs found also raise minimal hardware requirements?
28:27 - What is the GUI/CLI of the farmer display of the PlotNFT plots?
29:32 - How safe/unsafe is it to run Chia forks on existing plots?
30:24 - So we are about to re-plot. Will we have to re-plot again ever?
31:48 - Since you can claim your rewards back from a down pool, does it mean you'll try to DDoS your pool?
32:20 - Does MadMax do PlotNFTs? Will you support MadMax plotter?
33:36 - What's next? What's on the roadmap?
36:40 - What did you mean in changelog by "We have better error handling for misbehaving peers from naive forks/clones"?
37:03 - How do you confirm a payout or even see it on your PlotNFT?
38:10 - How do you think pooling will affect the netspace growth?
40:24 - Any insight you can share for Chialisp developers? How do you even approach something like building pooling in Chialisp? How do you think about security?
43:36 - Security and ease of use for new pooling protocol compared to older unofficial pools
44:36 - Since banking interest rates are basically 0, why is lending Chia interesting to you?
46:27 - Is the expectation that we transfer any pool rewards from the Pool Wallet to the Standard Wallet? Does that make any difference?
47:23 - When will you build in MadMax plotter into the Chia application?
47:52 - Can I farm multiple keys on the same farmer?
48:59 - If I’m still solo farming on OG plots, will it farm as normal without having to do anything special?
49:19 - How does the wallet handle more than one PlotNFT?
50:29 - Why does 1 mojo transaction sometimes display as income of 1.749999999999?
53:20 - Why didn't you build in singletons directly into the blockchain?
55:59 - Is it detrimental to have multiple machines plotting/farming the same network on different wallets?
56:57 - Are there fees to change the pools?
1:00:24 - Is there a healthy ratio for the number of harvesters based on the amount of your space plotted?
1:01:16 - Do you guys see any upcoming support for chia wallets outside of running a Chia node? Mobile wallets, Trezor, etc.
1:02:40 - How many EiB at the end of August?