19860207 / chiapool

ChiaMiningManager

What is this?

This application simplifies running multiple harvesters for the cryptocurrency Chia. Instead of having to do the entire process on every harvester machine this will get everything running with minimal configuration required.

This is used as a private mining pool until pools are officially supported by chia.

This is not a replacement for proper pools and should only be used as stated below:

Can be used for	Cannot be used for
Mining with others you do trust	Mining with others you do not trust
Self Pooling	Plots from different 24 word keys

This is because of 2 main reasons:

• The server cannot know how many plots the miners really have
  • Pool must trust miners
• The mining rewards are stored on a wallet which is not accessible by miners
  • Miners must trust Pool

Building

• Clone the project
• Go to the subfolder of Docker depending on which one you want to build
• docker build . -t [ImageName] --build-arg BRANCH=latest --no-cache

Using the CLI Interface

Configure environment variables

• chiapoolcli_poolhost - Address of the pools webinterface, e.g. https://my-chia-pool.com/
• chiapoolcli_minerhost - Address to the miners webinterface, usually http://localhost:8888

The miner is optional, but some features will not be available if the CLI has no access to the local miner to authenticate requests.

Wallet vs Farmer Keys

This pool uses 2 keys, one for farming and one for storing rewards. You can read about how it works here. This is enabled by default, you only need to add your keys to the node.env file.

	Farmer key	Wallet Key
Stores mined XCH	No	Yes
Accessible by miners	Yes	No
Accessible by plotters	Yes	No
Used for plotting	Yes	No