Replacing miners

Deploying a new miner to replace an existing miner can be useful when you want to reuse the same hotkey.

Follow the steps below to replace an existing miner:

1. Navigate to the Miners page in the header.
2. Click on New Miner and follow the steps to deploy a new miner. The new miner must be on both the same network and the same subnet as the existing miner.
3. When you get to the Subnet registration step, select the same coldkey that the existing miner's hotkey belongs to.
4. Select the hotkey currently in use by the existing miner.
5. Click Skip registration, I've already registered my hotkey.
6. Review the deployment configuration and click on Looks good, deploy!.

Once you no longer see any requests coming in for the existing miner, you can stop the existing miner by clicking on the Stop button on the details page of the miner.