Flax

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The Flax Network is a forked clone of the original Chia™ Network blockchain. As a clone, it is possible to farm the same plots to both blockchain networks, as long as the same private key (mnemonic seed) is provided to both the Chia™ and Flax farmer. Flax operates on a different network port though, so be sure to port-forward tcp/6888 at your router.

Summary Page

When Flax farming is enabled, the Summary will include a display of Flax Total Farmed, Flax Netspace Size, and Flax Estimated Time to Win.

Blockchain challenges from both networks are shown as well.

Farming Page

Plots are farmed to both the original Chia blockchain and the Flax blockchain fork. From the Farming page listing these common plots, it's also possible to view the debug.log from each farmer/harvester for each blockchain.

Alerts Page

When enabled, Machinaris tracks farming alerts from Chiadog.

Upgrade from v0.5.x and earlier

In earlier versions of Machinaris (before v0.6.0), the Flax blockchain was farmed within the same container as the Chia blockchain. To better isolate and support additional blockchains, Flax was moved to a separate Docker image. If you were running Machinaris v0.5.x and earlier:

1. Stop the main Machinaris container. Update your Machinaris image to v0.6.0+
2. Copy the contents of ~/.machinaris over to ~/.machinaris-flax.
3. Remove flax and flaxdog folders from ~/.machinaris folder (now only farms Chia)
4. Remove the copied mainnet folder from new ~/.machinaris-flax folder (now only farms Flax)
5. Windows/Linux/etc users should use the Machinaris Launch wizard to create a docker-compose.yml that launches one container to farm Chia and one container to farm Flax. Unraid users should install the "Machinaris Flax" application add-on available by searching the Community Applications tab.