Anyways I am still curious about chia because it is new and more fun compared to gpu mining, if you like building computers that is. I have a build ready to switch on when pools arrive... errm if they arrive, as you say, rules change and change.
CHIA aint' fun, but its different, this is why I got into chia, some 4+ months ago, I can't buy GPU's, and I live in ASIA, so I wanted to expand my hobby, and I saw chia a new way to grow my crypto 'farm'
I would prefer GPUS as I can use them for sci computation, and lots of cool stuff, having 1000TB of disk-space, is not something I really can deploy.
I have no choice, I can't buy GPU's, and I will not pay $2,000 for a $200 rtx-3070, that's right last summer I was paying $200 for brand-new RTX-3070's here in ASIA, and now they're asking $2,000 USD. HELL NO
STOP talking about POOLS there is only one pool HPOOL, that got the lead, because its all a scam, the chia-dev in USA(SV) say solo-mine, in ASIA everybody uses HPOOL and has earned a ton of xch, the west has a big zero, you think this wasn't all planned.
The HPOOL sw is solid like a rock, never seen a bug, the chia-net dev sw is shit, u think this wasn't all planned?
Bait&Switch folks.
All the paid influencers on YT, are paid by Western-Digital drives manufacturing and SAMSUNG, but guess what, all the drives on earth are made in ASIA.
The west has gotten the shaft, and the morons eat the feces of the YT influencers.