Farming Reward Calculation

[noretreat]

Yes, that plays a big role. I was setting up my farmer today to see if everything is working correctly before my other part arrives, does that mean I will have to wipe our node again to get the number updated correctly?

[heaps]

So to be clear, recently bought an additional 640GB RAM to have a better Memory/Core ratio on some servers but this will have no impact as the current specs are locked in with regards to calculated rewards?

Nor can the nodes be “re-registered” with the new specs, because if I understand the following correctly on Does it make sense to recreate my node when the price drops?

• Doing the effort of disconnecting, wiping and reconnecting is also useless, as your node will always be linked to the first time the hardware connected. A TPM will always reveal the ‘identity’ of the hardware, so Zero-OS will be so smart to recognize the hardware, and will make the link with previous boots. This will be enabled in one of next releases.

I know the post says, it’s not been enabled, so does that mean that right now we can still wipe / re-register nodes to have their HW updated?

Or am I missing something?

[FLnelson]

TPM in zero-os has not been enabled yet, or at least not announced. I would wait for clarification before we re-register anything. Obviously it’s vital that our 1000’s in capital is properly recognized. I’m sure they would prefer we didn’t so maybe an update to is in order. I’m rather fond of my low number nodes and would hate to lose them.

[scott]

Yes, let’s double check this before wiping out node ids. My impression is that upgrades are registered as such on TF Chain and nodes should mint for the capacity they are providing in real time. I’ll look into it after the weekend.

[weynandkuijpers]

In this case - I hope I am wrong … Will also cross check myself.

[weynandkuijpers]

So I was wrong in my statement. Every increase in hardware (capacity) is automatically taken on board in the next minting round. No need to re-register. Hope this takes away the confusion I caused.

[heaps]

Excellent!

Thanks for the update.

Much appreciated

[3bolt]

Lot of questions unfolding “Threefolding” that is. and things are getting clarified.
As for what i understood by now:

1. Static IP - not needed - Public IP option viable only for “data-centers” with lots IP addresses
2. Certified - not very clear if I can get my node certified, or if there is any certification procedure.

another question just pop to my mind.

What will happen if i change my provider ? Will it compromise my node in any way? - it should not but… still don’t mind me for asking.

[FLnelson]

You are correct on the static IP. Although your ISP may be able to give you some at home, but it is unlikely.
Currently, certified refers to Titans. No way for DIY to get certified currently.
Changing ISP’s should be a non-issue.

[vvash]

Speaking of farming rewards, is there’s a specific payout date? I have had a node online since Jan 31 and have yet to see anything populate on my end in my Threefold Connect app. Would love to get it sorted in the event I did something wrong in the initial set up 5 weeks ago

[FLnelson]

V3 rewards are running behind, today or tomorrow probably. It is scary the first time not knowing if you set it up right.

[weynandkuijpers]

This V3 payout is underway, Bear with us, it will be complete in the next day or two.

[vvash]

Still nothing on my end. About to bring 2 more servers online so I just want to make sure I have the right setup for my nodes

[weynandkuijpers]

I can confirm that V3 payout was done by the guardians yesterday. So if all is well with your farm (right address specified) the tokens should have arrived in your wallet. Please see here for the message stating V3 minting is done and what to do to check your farm details.

[vvash]

Hmm I have no change in my account then. Time for some detective work!

I have 3 farms running now (all on separate ones, not sure if its better to just make 1 farm per machine or run all machines on the same farm).

One is a VM (which I don’t expect payouts from, was just testing to see), one is a R620, and one is a PC tower that I had laying around.

Here’s my account, I’ve had it active since Jan 31

Here are my farms which are active in the explorer

My wallet address does match my TFT Connect address

I tried using my hardware wallet via ledger to the VM one which I wasn’t expecting anything from, ironically that’s the only one that had any activity even though it’s minute

Here’s where things get weird.

Here’s my TFT Connect wallet address

Below it has Asset balances which is 0 on this screen

However clicking on that shows 118XLM

This is my Ledger Stellar Wallet address. And it shows an asset balance here:

I believe the AC47 Wallet address is my TFT address on StellarX, as I can swap those assets here in stellarX:

It’s just weird because ONLY the VM is going to my Ledger Wallet address, and it should not have generated any TFT, yet it did…

Sounds like I messed up some things with my testing, as I have no activity on the machines that are actually working properly. If there’s a way to consolidate all of these wallets (or even just start over) such as pointing them all to my Ledger wallet or my TFT Connect that would be ideal.

Now I do have all of these in a datacenter behind some firewalls, if I need to open up ports to allow traffic please let me know and I can put in the request into IT to make sure it’s available (I did have all of these working at home in the first half of feb before moving them to the data center).

Anyhoo, thanks for entertaining my long rant and detective work, just want to make sure I’m doing this right now so I can set it and forget it and contribute to the network!

Thanks!

[weynandkuijpers]

Hi - looking into the situation, not a the bottom of it (yet). But: you have had 2 times an an amount of TFT, see here on the stellar explorer

But in your screenshot that stated Farm-VM the linked stellar payout address is another one than the one that has received the 2 payout. The *Farm-VM" address starts with GDWK.... and the address that received the two payouts starts with GAQT..... So they are two different addresses. I guess the GAQT.... address is linked to one of your farms with physical servers.

Please check and let me know!

[weynandkuijpers]

Did one more check: the address with the two payments is part of the “Tower Farm”

➜  cli-tool git:(development) ✗ curl -X GET "https://gridproxy.grid.tf/farms?stellar_address=GAQTVGH2B5MTUUQFNQ4A7W34ZYKIJ7ZV23Q3YJVBFWD7G3FEAO5PY7OV" -H "accept: application/json"
[{"name":"Tower Farm","farmId":310,"twinId":939,"version":3,"pricingPolicyId":1,"stellarAddress":"GAQTVGH2B5MTUUQFNQ4A7W34ZYKIJ7ZV23Q3YJVBFWD7G3FEAO5PY7OV","publicIps":[]}]
➜  cli-tool git:(development) ✗

So mystery solved…

[vvash]

Sorta mystery solved, I have 2 physical farms pointing to my threefold connect wallet, which has zero activity in it (those would be farmID 301 & 334 pointing to https://stellar.expert/explorer/public/account/GDWK4VFQP5RQEO676KAZGWWABY6SUZAUVKEGXR3JN4AZXHXUX6W2YW5A). Which is the weird part. I’ll just switch them over to my known working wallet but odd that the TFT Connect does’t actually work, unless I’m seeing that wrong

[scott]

First, I would recommend using a single farm for all of your nodes going forward. It will really help reduce confusion. You actually have at least four farms and six different node ids.

It looks to me like the nodes on farms that paid into your Connect app wallet did not meet the uptime requirement, thus were only paid today after the rules changed. From there I’d guess you changed them to a different farm that paid out to your Ledger wallet. You were paid twice to that account for regular minting and twice more (probably for bug correction).

So this is not so mysterious to me at all: you had two nodes eligible for minting and were paid twice. The logical thing is that your two hardware nodes were booted with a farm id that was set to pay to your Ledger. You only showed us the Portal screen for your VM farm, where the address matches your connect app wallet (well, you actually show two connect app addresses), but then you say that the VM farm was the only one pointing to your Ledger… maybe you had the two addresses mixed up?

By the way, the Stellar address starting in AC47 is the TFT minting address. That’s where all the TFT you’ve received have come from. And, viewing the account from Ledger Live won’t give the full picture. It doesn’t show any details about assets other than XLM. So those “minute” transactions you saw are actually for ~900 TFT each, which you see in StellarX.