Some are trying to sign new users up now. Yesterday, one was writing about, “SUPER user” status for anyone who put in a PiB now
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AzPool - Stable Daily Reward - Support Original Plots - Launch in This Week
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Only 21chia states that they are waiting for the official launch and tells you anything about their team or financing. Kudos to 21Chia. I hope they get their website completed soon.
After reading the replies here and more research I have learned that joining any pool that is launched after, and is using, Chia official pool protocol is reasonably safe.
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I am still concerned about most of the start-ups we are seeing pop up almost daily.
After Chia official pool has launched, I would feel better knowing that it was being used. I would feel safe in joining a new pool as long as they also satisfied me that they were an open and honest company with their systems in place to manage a pool securely.
New pools that look and act shoddy probably are.
Good luck to all of us! 