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Quick and dirty

Modified code can be found here - https://github.com/narken/p2pool-altcoins

Instructions for Ubuntu 12.04

Install Feathercoin Daemon:

Add this text into ~/.feathercoin/feathercoin.conf

Fire Up Feathercoin daemon:

Get p2pool modifed code for feathercoin:

Install scrypt module for ltc that feathercoin uses (Need sudo) :

Start up your P2pool for Feathercoin!:

You can use screen -r to open up the p2pool console, or you can tail -f ~/p2pool-fc/data/feathercoin/log

--w port (The port for the stat web interface and also the port where miners connect)
-f number ( Fee you will get for running the pool, in percent)

Some nice commands:
tail -f ~/p2poolf-fc/data/feathercoin/log | grep BLOCK

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Thanks to paul21 for helping me find a few snags, and p2pool owner forrestv for creating the script.

When using the git code mention over, your p2pool should be able to connect to the 2 other servers i have setup.

Disclaimer:
I have tried to get as much help as possible modifying the p2pool, but there has been some lack of interest there. But hey, it "works".
Also might be some errors in the guide above, most can be solved with some linux skills. If not, post in the thread and you will get some help.
This guide will focus on Ubuntu 12.04 and might work fine on other ubuntu platforms.
There might be some code error showing up, but if shares are going through and stats seems fine, it should be working.

Got any inputs on the code, please contact me, i need to modify the 2 live servers also if certain code is changed.

Everything works great... just update your p2pool launch script from

--bitcoind-rpc-port 9337

to

--bitcoind-rpc-port 9667

Based on your feathercoin.conf file -- and everything is good!   ;D


Edit:
I noticed some console errors when running the process... and I am not sure if it will mess with the block found/payout logic.

I am pointing some hashing power at P2Pool and hope that a block is found and paid out properly.
I will post back once I see this is working without any problems.

Thanks. Very informative.

Very nice guide. I might actually give this a go...

I am receiving payments for blocks found.
Very nice work   ;D

I have successfuly setup my own feathercoin p2pool with the p2pool server running on virtualbox ubuntu 12.04, miner runing on win7 sp1 x64.

Hey guys, I'm runing for about 4 hours to mine feathercoin using feathercoin p2pool, but I get nothing, anyone could help?
It seems that all applications work fine.

How to allow other pepole to mine use my feathercoin p2pool?

on what server should i put this? special or i can get it to work on my home PC?

Getting tons of orphans and very low efficiency (60%). I've been mining a lot on P2Pool with different coins, and I've always had very good efficiency (> 100% most of the time). What could be my problem?

Thanks for the tutorial and p2pool modifications, this works great! The Fee payout doesn't seem to though, is that a problem of the p2pool modifications? Any chance of an update?

This github repository gives me a 404.

Fee payout is still not working for me either. No worries, its all for fun. Thanks for your efforts!

yeah, that repo is gone, there is this now  https://github.com/chrda/p2pool-chncoin , does only support bitcoin, litecoin and terracoin as --net argument

Strange stuff indeed, the original repo is gone and the new one has feathercoin support stated in the description:
"Only use this for feathercoin"...

Yet the actual support of feathercoin mining was dropped without any comments. :(

Has anyone got this working recently?
I'm stuck around the p2pool git bit which doesn;t work.
Will the chncoin git actually work for FC?

uhm, can someone upload the fc pool?

Where oh where did p2pool-fc go?

Ill remake one.. need food, give me an hour..

Thank you!

Updated first post with new url

https://github.com/Yorango/p2pool-ftc

Code is untested. Let me know if there is any

Need to use --net litecoin for feathercoin

Thanks for your efforts. When I start this p2pool it shows my miners' speed as the whole network speed, and doesn't show anyone else, only my 2 addresses in the table. Looks like it doesn't connect to other nodes for some reason. :(

Still not working on the dedicated.

Testing it on another VPS.

I will keep you updated.

Still getting the same thing.

http://198.23.129.176:19327/

There is nothing else running on this server.

By the way, in my case it always shows the same p2pool's rate = 3413 kH/s. And Jude Austin's pool shows "Pool rate: 960kH/s" at the moment. It's like this p2pool doesn't connect to the actual feathercoin network or something.

Its experimental code. If some one find bugs or things to change they need to share it, else we will never get far.

Jude Austin how did you fixed your node?

Another forum member pointed me to a different git clone of p2pool for feathercoin.

I will post it here shortly.

Anyone got it working?

I am connected to the network or not?

http://ftc-cryptocoin.pagekite.me:80

Does not seem so, right?

Code is not enabled for connecting to other nodes..
So many ways to send bad data to other pools :)

Jude seems to have it working , will try his clone when he posts

Anyone would like to share network IP? I'd like to connect my 5 Mhash node.

i hawe couple of retarded questions:
1. how to download pool files, when i click on files from first post link it opens their code?
2. it would be fancy if i can get pushpool to mine at, just curious how it work
3. how to setup that some amount goes to other address, something like fee?

thx

Just finished mine:

http://p2pool.nl:19327
userid your ftc address
pass doesn't matter

rate 1%

Would love to see ppl connecting to see if it works correctly.

Thx

1. Check your webserver mime types settings
2. AFAIK scrypt patched pushpool can work for FTC. You may clone it here https://github.com/CryptoManiac/p2pool But it does not have stratum/vardiff support. At least in opesource version :)

just found another post mile long so will read it now, it has some answers

tyrion how you set fee 1%?

My p2pool is on pool.maeh.org - However, i still do run the "old" p2pool-fc from the now no longer existing chrda network. From doing a diff of the code from the one posted in this thread the IDENTIFIER and PREFIX seem to be mixed up with the litecoin network?

Assumption: People running the Y... something repository run their feathercoin p2pools with the litecoin identifier and people running on the old repository run it with the former identifer. From my gut feeling the Y... repository needs to be amended!?

Here you go: https://github.com/skralg/p2pool-feathercoin.git

This is the one that I am using for http://p2pool.org

Seems to be working good.

-f 1

where 1 is fee :)

Thanks! I am making a setup to test.

https://github.com/skralg/p2pool-feathercoin.git

Indeed this version works great for me. At least now I can see the full network on my local node.

The skralg code seems to be much cleaner and complete from having a quick browse of it. Also looks like the IDENTIFIER was changed here on purpose. I got that running now on pool.maeh.org. Press your thumbs!

Looks good, i see it has a seed. Will try it tomorrow(past bedtime). But i see incompatible changes in this version, i.e. it mungles up some litecoin things. (example: https://github.com/skralg/p2pool-feathercoin/commit/bb5b1edbf0e95565bed127281a88a13df8d7cf77  )

Would it be possible to keep it clean, and just add feathercoin things, that way the changes can be pushed into the original p2pool repository. That would be most convenient, rather than tracking forks and debating over which to use.

^ If answer to above is no, then let me know, ill fork the upstream p2pool, use your identifier, prefix and seed and redo the changes such that it doesnt mungle up other coins and apply for pull request.

Am I crazy or what?

I have a 7970 and when I point it to the pool it never shows an accepted share or is that normal?

Just new blocks and work restarts.

I never mine scrypt so this is confusing me.

I think no.
Here is my 7970 on local node of skralg p2pool:

is this fee goes to your account? where you put code for fee and adress on which it should be sent

What does your config look like?

Thanks for posting the link to skralg git, seems like it works.

By "accepted shares" do you mean the shares in p2pool chain or the shares shown in miners? Cgminer shows a lot of shares accepted (as on the bumbox's "screenshot"), but those aren't "real" p2pool shares, afaik they're just there for hashrate calculation. It might take a while to get "real" shares with p2pool, I've setup a node and connected my home workers to it about half an hour ago, and with ~ 11 Mhash/sec I've got 5 shares accepted by p2pool so far, 2 of which are orphaned. Whether it's ok or not to have so few shares accepted I'm not sure myself, let's see how others are doing.

Here is it:

7970 is a second card with 1050/1500 and flashed bios.

It's really weird.

None of my GPUs will mine scrypt.

None, lol.

And yes, I know how to tune for scrypt.

But when I run them they never get shares and the diff is really high according to cgminer for each share.

I don't understand what the issue could be.

Could anyone throw a few hashes this way > http://ftc-cryptocoin.pagekite.me to see if it works?

I am getting 0 shares with this git clone , according to the stats page anyway.

did you change pool fee and how do you do it? also how you put your address to receive fee?

run_p2pool.py --net litecoin -a YourFTCfeePayoutAddress -f 1 --give-author 0 --w 19327 --bitcoind-p2p-port 9336 --bitcoind-rpc-port 9337 rpcadmin yourgoodpasswordfromfeathercoin.confhere

-a YourFTCfeePayoutAddress
-f x where x is the fee amount

For the skralg's version it is needed to use:

will test it now, thank you for your reply

ImportError: cannot import name MAXREPEAT

i get this at step
cd litecoin_scrypt
            C:\Python27\python.exe setup.py build --compile=mingw32 install

Working but doesn't seem to be many other peers


EDIT: nevermind I was following the instructions at the start of the thread with the -net litecoin flag, when I read further and installed the updated version which uses the -net feathercoin falg all is good.

delete post

do you have any files matching C:\Windows\System32\python*.dll ?

it looks like i dont have python files in system32 dir?


*do i need to run ftc, ltc, btc clients for this to work?

new error:

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/67/wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwa.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/268/wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwa.jpg/)

You are running the wrong version on python.  You need to run the script with python 3.  You cant run it with python 2.

i also try with python 3.3.1 ant everything that goes for him, also 32&64bit versions and still nothing

solved: it wont work on win7 x64

All what you wrote here is total bullshit,I made everything how you described, but got nothing.

To start p2pool better make this:
1.Go to directory where p2pool is installed - "cd ~/p2pool-feathercoin"
2. Run command: "python run_p2pool.py --net feathercoin -a YourFTCPayoutAddress -f 0 --give-author 0 --w 19327 --bitcoind-p2p-port 9336 --bitcoind-rpc-port 9667 rpcadmin yourgoodpasswordfromfeathercoin.confhere"

As the repositories in this thread are either no longer available or the p2pool version provided is very old, i have created a p2pool version for Feathercoin based on the latest available p2pool version. I do intend to update this version regularly. Please let me know if you have updated your p2pool for Feathercoin to the latest version on a stable and continually running host so i could then add you to the seed hosts. Right now there is only two if my machines running as seed hosts.

Repository: https://github.com/andreasfaerber/p2pool-feathercoin
Blog / Pool Site: http://pool.maeh.org/

Regards,
MrSheep

Status of Feathercoin p2pool software releases

Feathercoin has updated to GPU "only" Neoscrypt algorithm and p2pool updates have been released for a while.

**The Feathercoin neoscrypt p2pool instruction are included in Github repository :**

https://github.com/wellenreiter01/p2pool-neoscrypt

**Ask for further help with p2pool on the Feathercoin Forum**

http://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/8384/what-version-of-p2pool-software-to-use-with-feathercoin-neoscrypt/2

The p2pool now installs easy and runs great as your own private pool. The current estimates at current average FTC (neoscrypt) difficulty means you can "Solo mine" a  something like a R9 280 using  NSGminer. It is a good introduction to mining without using ASICs.

** NSGminer v0.9.2: The Fastest NeoScrypt GPU Miner**

https://github.com/ghostlander/nsgminer

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