• General FAQ
  • How can I start pooling?
  • Will I need to replot to use the official pooling protocol?
  • What is a plot NFT?
  • Will I need pay XCH to create a plot NFT or switch pools?
  • Can I farm with both OG (original) plots and portable plots?
  • How do I assign portable plots to a pool?
  • What is the difference between a "Key" and a "Wallet" in the Chia GUI and CLI?
  • How is Chia pooling different from other cryptos?
  • How can I start my own pool?
  • Where can I find a list of Chia pools?
  • Can I advertise my pool in Keybase?
  • Why shouldn't I join the original Hpool pool?
  • Why doesn't Chia run their own official pool?
  • Can I name my pool chiapool.com?
  • If a pool gets 51% of netspace, can they take over the network?
  • I have more questions, where do I ask?
  • Technical FAQ
  • Where can I see the Chia Pool Reference Code?
  • What programming language is the reference pool code written in?
  • How hard is it to adapt Chia's reference pool code to my pool code?
  • I am a programmer, but never wrote pool code, will I be able to run a pool with Chia's reference pool code?
  • Variable names used in pooling code
  • How does one calculate a farmer's netspace?
  • How does difficulty affect farmer's netspace calculation?
  • How do you identify the farmer that submitted partial proofs?
  • Will pool servers need to keep track of all farmers and their share of rewards?
  • What actions can singleton take?
  • How do pool collect rewards?
  • How can I tell if the server is receiving enough partials from a particular client?
  • Why am I receiving more points in testnet than mainnet?
  • What is the expected ratio between a k32 and a k25?
  • How to calculate how many partials with X difficulty a certain plot with Y size can get in Z time?
  • Can I use testnet pooling plots on mainnet?
  • Does that mean that forks of Chia cannot use these pooling plots?
  • Does the pooling system support all of the various payment methods used in other blockchain pools?
  • What are the API methods a pool server needs to support Chia clients?
  • Where can I see the video Technical Q&A on Chia Pooling: