I think they care a great deal that as many farmers as possible stop using OG plots to pool with and switch to NFT plots.
They worked frantically on the protocol for 2 months, and every day it wasn’t finished every communication channel got plastered with “when pool??, need pool now!!”
And now that it’s finally out there’s people going “ah, well you know, actually, not that big of a deal”
If I was one of the dev’s I’d introduce a virus to those people’s computers that causes it to make an annoying sound 20 times per day at random intervals
Jokes aside, it’s their pride (for lack of a better word) on the line after talking so much about how the new protocol would be better and more secure than the unofficial pools.
the xch in their stash is solely at the discretion of the chia company, a simplest way would be to just use a redemption method independent of the blockchain
people that cares about pool would have already switch, they are just a vocal minority rather than the majority. Big whales are not gonna bother replotting unless incentivise otherwise
I don’t think they were really that concerned about people asking when pool. I think they were concerned that after they missed their self imposed deadline almost 50% of the farming network was using a closed source program to pool. I am happy with Hpool and am about to hit my first full coin from farming with them. I am in the process of plotting new drives to see how my returns are on the OP plots. Once I have the new ones filled I will decide if it is worth the effort to re-plot the old ones to my new key. It is going to be purely based off of return. The devs can worry about securing the network. I am not worried about it.
I can agree that we should stop using some dodgy OG pools like hpool with non open source software.
But hpool just filled the gap which Chia created when started this year.
If Chia project would introduce NFT plots since day 1 we would not have this conversation today.
Chia give us NFT plots in July when some of us already had thousands OG plots done. This costs us time, wear of computer hardware, electricity.
It is Chia mistake that NFT plots were not available from the start of mainnet.
I will keep my over 2 thousands OG plots as long as my HDDs will be alive. I have no intention to replot.
Even more… I’m creating extra over 600 OG plots to grow to a 300 TB farm. I want to have all my plots this same type so no choice it has to be OG plots.
I’m farming Chia and a few other forks with Foxy Pool. I’m happy with them and I can see that it is great community.
I don’t see any dangerous thing which this pool could do to Chia.
Lots of people is closing their farms now. I wouldn’t blame OG pools for that. Chia is young project and still have lots to do to become more mature.
Just one of least interesting threads from reddit:
So there is a lot hard work for Chia developers regarding theirs software.
Another thing… how hard is to buy XCH in some countries.
So before you will ask OG plots owners to replot them… please take a wide look at the whole project.
I don’t see reasons why you should get lot of hate for this.
I can agree that it would be better if Chia farmer would stop using some dodgy pools.
But this is not the main reason why XCH value and netspace is going down.
There is more factors that are created current situation. I would not blame OG plots for this.
Chia project started with OG plots… it was their mistake. If they would start with NFT plots we would not have this conversation today.
I was originally on Hpool but the minute NFT pools were live I started to plot the rest of my space with the new plots and had them as part of a pool. Then once my space was filled, I started to replot. Basically keeping my farm at full capacity while slowly moving over to full NFT. I have added space since then and I am currently at full capacity and completely NFT on an official pool. I don’t regret the time it took to move over. I make more on the official pool and I don’t feel like I’m part of some scabbed together pool (which is exactly what any OG pool is no matter how much you like them).
Some day OG plots will no longer exist. I guarantee it. Something will come down the pipe that will make them obsolete. It is just a matter of time. Do yourself a favor and get ahead of it. Just setup some old system and let it plot. At least you will be making progress toward NFT.
Network is dropping but the rewards are not increasing. There is a bug or backdoor and someones use this. Maybe the dust storm, but the small farmers’ rewards are not increasing. I have been keeping extensive statistics since April. Some peoples earn a lot but overall low. For example, my win time is 15 days but 40 days no blocks. I am sure there is no problem at my farm.
depends, how good your plots are and delete duplicates and check the quality by chia check plots usage. people will desagree but i have won 5 plots in 23 days so far since i done a few things to improve plots and change pools.
I was on Foxy OG, and I did the same as you, all my OG plots have gone. All new plots I do are K32 and K33 NFT, mainly K33. I’ve enjoyed plotting, trying to get the production quicker without spending an absolute fortune.
