I agree with what was stated there. You can make plots for others by including their public farmer key and pool key into the plot as you plot it. Which is how plotting services work. Their farmer/harvester will accept these plots to farm because the farmer public key can be matched to the private key.
You cannot just assign some existing plots to your private key which have been plotted using someone else’s farmer and pool public keys. This is why you cannot sell plots that exist already without selling the entire lot in one go, and giving up your private key and securing the trust of the buyer that you won’t use a copy of the private key to empty their wallet at a later date.
The buyer can check and transfer any rewards they receive but only if the seller doesn’t notice them first.
Since the private key and farmer public key are linked and cannot be unlinked I cannot see any way unless you secure a legally binding contract which would have to work for the duration those plots, and therefore the private key attached to them, exists.
This will change with poolable plots which presumably could have their ownership transferred to someone else.
Not an expert just this is my understanding of how it works, can any experts wade in?
Apologies, as I said I am not familiar with these technicalities. If that is the case then it would indeed mean that someone would need to buy the whole thing, and essentially take some risk by doing so.
If this is the only solution, I am willing to provide an even better price to make this attractive to someone buying. If not, I’ll just sell the hard drives here/ on eBay and delete all the plots.
17.5 pounds per TB for the hard drives + 0.3 pounds per plot.
FYI I started deleting some of these plots unfortunately and selling the drives on eBay. What an irony, after having the computer plot those day and night
Given that I am deleting them I am happy to sell lower, at 0.2 pounds per plot.
Also 17 pounds per TB for the hard drives.
This will change with poolable plots which presumably could have their ownership transferred to someone else.
AFAIK this does not change with poolable plots. They reference your singleton that cant be changed. You may point the singleton to a new pool adress buts thats all. Correct me if I’m wrong.
So I believe that you are correct. You will not be able to use a chia pool using the official pooling implementation provided by Chia with the plots I am selling. You would only be able to use these plots with unofficial pools that require you to give up your keys, or without a pool.
Thanks for pointing this out that makes sense. So you could allocate your pool able plots to a different pool but not sell them, unless you can overcome the trust/keys issue directly with the buyer.
Currently 145TB, but some hard drives are about to be sold on Ebay so this will drop to about 120TB (and the plots will be deleted). And I think that it will continue dropping by about 25TB per week until it reaches zero.
