We're genuinely saddened to see Flexpool cease their services. Flexpool consistently challenged us to elevate our standards in terms of quality and features. To those transitioning from Flexpool, here's a short introduction you to our pool's alternative features:

Flexfarmer is a great tool to get farming without the need to run your own node. As an alternative, we're hosting community nodes, making it possible for you to utilize just the farmer and harvester components of the official Chia software. This eliminates the need for you to host a node, if you're short on resources.

We've recently introduced payouts swaps to BTC and other altcoins. Currently, we offer the option to swap into approximately five different cryptocurrencies.

Our operational costs are very low, and we've implemented a voluntary fee system to sustain our services. Presently, we are not operating at a loss, which assures our sustainability for years to come. We kindly ask you to consider contributing a voluntary fee when joining our pool – your support is greatly appreciated!

You can use our regular guide to switch pools: Join SpaceFarmers.io

You can use our regular guide to switch pools: Join SpaceFarmers.io – select the CLI variant!

If you are farming at Flexpool using Flexfarmer, you will have to change farmer software to switch. Which software to use depends on the type of plots you are currently farming:

• For Gigahorse-compressed plots, switch to the Gigahorse CLI farmer.

• For uncompressed plots, switch to the official Chia farmer.

If you want to continue farming without running your own full-node, you can use our SpaceFarmers Community Node.

Here are step by step instructions for migrating from farming Gigahorse-compressed plots with Flexfarmer on Flexpool to farming the same plots with the Gigahorse farmer and the Community Node on SpaceFarmers.

If you use the Community Node, neither wallet nor farmer require a local full node or a local synced blockchain database. But you can also just use the community node for initial migration until you have fully synced your own local node.

Finally, note that the following instructions assume Linux. If you are using Windows, use .\chia.exe instead of ./chia.bin, and use %USERPROFILE%\.chia instead of ~/.chia in paths.

1. The following packages are needed to run on Linux: sudo apt install ocl-icd-libopencl1
2. Download and extract the Gigahorse farmer.
3. Open a command line and change into the directory you extracted the farmer to.
4. Initiate Chia by using: ./chia.bin init
5. Add your keys via your 24-word mnemonic: ./chia.bin keys add
6. Start the farmer and wallet, and let the wallet sync: ./chia.bin start farmer-only wallet. Check wallet sync state with ./chia.bin wallet show.
7. Once the wallet's synced, switch pools:
   1. Run ./chia.bin plotnft show to get plotnft wallet id.
   2. Then run ./chia.bin plotnft join -i <wallet_id> -u https://xch.spacefarmers.io to switch.
   3. After you confirm the switch, the program will tell you a chia wallet get_transaction command you can use to watch the transaction for switching pools. Run that multiple times, until you see Status: Confirmed.
   4. After the transaction was confirmed, run ./chia.bin plotnft show again, and observe that the plotnft you are switching is now in Current state: LEAVING_POOL.
   5. The switch will take ~20 minutes to complete. Once switching successfully completed, ./chia.bin plotnft show will show Current state: FARMING_TO_POOL and Current pool URL: https://xch.spacefarmers.io.
   6. Only proceed once your plotnft is switched, as the community node won't accept connections from farmers not on our pool.
8. Once your plotnft is switched, stop the farmer: ./chia.bin stop farmer-only.
9. Change ~/.chia/mainnet/config/config.yaml to use our Gigahorse community node. Search for the following section:

   farmer:
     full_node_peers:
       - host: localhost
         port: 8444

   and change it to:

   farmer:
     full_node_peers:
       - host: community-node.spacefarmers.io
         port: 18445

10. Tell the harvester where to find your plots: ./chia.bin plots add -d /path/to/plots
11. Start farmer and harvester to actually farm plots: ./chia.bin start farmer-only harvester. NB: If you have a large amount of plots, the Gigaghorse harvester will initially take a while to read all plots.
12. Run ./chia.bin plotnft show again to get your plotnft's launcher id. With that, run ./chia.bin plotnft get_login_link -l <launcher_id> to get a URL to log into our SpaceFarmers.io Web Dashboard.
13. Watch ~/.chia/mainnet/log/debug.log for errors and/or farming activity. Watch the “partials” tab for your farmer in our dashboard for successful partial submission. It typically takes 3-20 minutes once the plotnft is switched and the farmer & harvester are running for the first partial to show up.
14. Welcome to pooling at SpaceFarmers.io!
15. Optional: stop the wallet again, as you don't need it running to farm: ./chia.bin stop wallet. For pooling, the wallet is only necessary to switch your plotnft and sync the pool config.