FAQ: How do I remove my Pool From The Chain

[gmanroney]

A lot of pool operators that seem to think that in order to remove their pools from the chain, they have to remove their metadata from the registry.

The Foundation has no power to retire pools from the chain, only their owners can do it. Furthermore, this registry only holds metadata about pool owners. Pool registrations however are recorded on the blockchain and are therefore subject the same laws of immutability than the rest.

Pool retirement require an explicit retirement certificate to be submitted on chain. This isn't yet supported through jcli so it could quite unpractical. However if no one delegates to a pool, it won't be elected as a slot leader and will not attract a lot of stakeholders.

If however you still want your pool to be removed from the chain, please seek help on the official Jörmungandr repository: https://github.com/input-output-hk/jormungandr/issues

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[NicolasDP]

@gmanroney I suggest you get ready as soon it will be possible to retire a stake pool via jcli.

[keynobase]

Still waitting (3 months) how is possible that my running pool is after my clossed pool. People delegates to my closed pool.

#1978

[Scitz0]

My issue #2073 was closed with a reference here.
Though as this is still a problem I would like to add my findings about it.
Old pools voided and a new pool was registered according to CF wiki with PR's. Ticker for old pools is now VOID7 but name(AHLNET) of pools are left untouched.
I then deregistered pools through JCLI. Old pools are no longer listed through "jcli rest v0 stake-pools get" but in wallets and explorer they are still listed. This is not a CF issue but a jormungandr/wallet/explorer issue but as its related to topic I wanted to mention it. It has been like this since deregistration of a stake pool was introduced through jcli and they are still visible in wallets/ today when I checked.

[NicolasDP]

thanks we will track down the explorer side of the issue in input-output-hk/jormungandr#2074 hopefully we can get a resolve on this soon.

[keynobase]

Hi Nicola, I couldnt solve this problem 1 week a go, because thanti stopped my node after starting it at december. I dont has any node right now. thanks, El mié., 15 abr. 2020 a las 14:09, Nicolas Di Prima (< notifications@github.com>) escribió:

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