NoSSD Chia Pool

Total Chia netspace has declined greatly over the past few weeks, which is good for each individual miner and leads to higher profits. Unfortunately, with a smaller total netspace, more GPU computational power is required to serve the same amount of HDD space. It is not unique to our pool, and other compressed plot technologies are affected by this too. This, combined with the currently increased Signage Point rate, results in an unusually high number of stale shares. If you start seeing too many stales on your dashboard, plug in more GPUs or temporarily turn off some HDDs.

In the current situation, we have decided not to develop a new pool version for the Proof of Space 2.0. We will continue to provide the best services for all our devoted miners as long as current plots work on the Chia blockchain, regardless of the XCH price.

Timelord currently generates signage points at a significantly decreased rate, which is reflected in the hourly share statistics on our pool. This decreases the number of generated blocks and affects the farming reward. UPDATED: it was fixed

Many people are still unaware of the recent events in the Chia blockchain and keep asking us questions. Therefore, we decided to provide some information here. A few days ago, someone posted a malformed transaction to the Chia mempool. That transaction dramatically slowed down the block generation algorithm, effectively preventing reference nodes from mining blocks. This knocked most solo miners and NFT pools off the grid, zeroing their rewards. Our pool has multiple layers of protection against dust storms and similar DoS attacks, which allowed us to keep the blockchain running and prevent netspace from collapsing. During the next 12 hours, we mined 75% of all blocks. At the same time, the signage point rate dropped to ~0.85 (possibly intentionally on the timelord side), causing a slight loss in rewards, which some of our miners noticed. Then, version 2.5.1 of the reference node was released, partially mitigating the block generation issue, and netspace started to recover. However, since the difficulty had already dropped, our users earned significantly higher rewards in the following days. The community is now awaiting a final fix, which will hopefully be implemented in version 2.5.2 of the reference node.

Version 3.1 A few minor bugs were fixed. If you experience slow plotting or CPU plotting issues on Linux, please update to a new version.

Version 3.0 is released - new compression levels from 47.5GiB down to 26.2GiB - up to 388% reward - 1 minute plot time on Linux in full-in-ram mode More info on the website

A reminder Users of the old client versions 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 must upgrade to a newer CPU (1.4) or GPU client version to successfully pass the plot filter change taking effect tomorrow

Version 2.3 is released - better loging, verbose mode - globs (*) in directory names - more accurate benchmark, plot filter emulation mode - better plot insertion/removal handling, parallel plots enumeration A full list of changes can be found in this message https://t.me/nossdpoolchat/4077

Network generates signage points much quicker than it should. This overloads our GPU client. We are aware of this. We aren't sure what is the cause. May be CNI is recklessly testing its new ASIC timelord shooting its own leg. This should hopefully settle down in an hour or two when difficulty adjusts.

We've updated our docker hub repository with a new GPU version Do not forget to install NVIDIA Container Toolkit to use it

A critical bugfix update, version 2.2 - fixed a bug that led to a significant decrease in share rate on most machines - removed mandatory dependency from CUDA in linux version Strongly encourage everyone to update!

A new major update on the pool, version 2.0 - New compression levels, up to C15, 50.3GiB - New GPU plotter - CPU plotter speed improved x4 - Finalization step is removed - Share difficulty is increased to lower the load on miners

New payment policy Following our recent poll, we will try to pay only once a day to each wallet. This will eliminate a huge number of small transactions for big miners.

A new maintenance build 1.3: - The problem with AMD EPYC motherboards is fixed. If you are running Windows on h11ssl/h12ssl/h12dsi etc motherboard you may find this interesting - Options added to tune mining in a high latency environment such as cloud storage. You can now disable periodic scans and get rid of stale shares by increasing the number of read threads

Pool updates: - Version 1.2 released. Changes are minor so we will not run autoupdate this time - Discount period for early adopters is over and the fee is set to it's original value 3.5% - We've added badges to our website and everyone who have received at least one payment by now gets "Early Adopter" badge

New top miner! Our scoreboard has a new leader. Congrats to xch1wnvphxyqv88gnpyxghcatgz64ac6z3shnwt7plvfvenvr48ala6smhvxkf whoever you are. What new records should we expect?

Finally! The day has come, we were placed above hpool on miningpoolstats

We have just won our first block 🥳 Thanks to all our users! Good luck and join our pool if you haven’t already