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Hi Guys,

After lots of fun making my own pools over the last few months I thought I would make a series of video tutorials which essentially just runs through the MPOS quick start guide with a few tips and tricks along the way.
I've broke it into 3 parts and it's a walk through on getting yourself started on making a pool. Hopefully this will mean more pools which means some more competition.

I've used the relatively new guncoin as my practice coin for this video but obviously this could easily be modified for any scrypt based altcoin, or quark, etc

Thanks for watching :D

Part 1: Building and compiling the wallet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l16tku_7g2A
Part 2: Configuring the Stratum Server: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlShbFRzefY
Part 3: Configuring the Front end (MPOS): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0MEVlVrEqc

Nice manual :) Thanks.
Everyone should have own mining pool ;D

Very good tutorial. thanks, mate.

Cheers for the feedback.
In the near future i'll make a new series detailing security, and email setup
thanks

is it possible to make a pool on an windows based server?

You could probably make MPOS work under a VM, but CoiniumServ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=604476) might also be of interest to you.  Note that it's only the server side, not the public-facing web side (MPOS is pretty much a turnkey solution, offering all of it neatly packaged together).
I can't really think of a good reason to use a Windows-based server for this, though, unless it's all you have available to you for some reason :)

If you only have a windows machine your best bet is to run a VMWare (like I have in this video) and have the network set to bridged mode, then just forward ports 80, and the worker port to the local IP of that virtual machine. Downside is that the host machine (windows) has to stay on all the time.

I am getting this error:

chown: cannot access ‘public/templates/compile’: No such file or directory
chown: cannot access ‘public/templates/cache’: No such file or directory

i checked the git, and shows [[MOVED] Removed include and templates from public [TESTING]]

any idea if we need to do any extra step?

great tutorial  :D

This is becase of the new directory structure in the MPOS software on github.

I've update the tutorial on youtube, but essentially you just need to change the command to conform to the new directory structure so do:

chown -R www-data templates/compile templates/cache logs

Hope that helps

Just what I  have been looking for. Thanks for your videos not often people do for free.

What would the min requirements needed for a server needed to run on. I have a spare system doing nothing with 500GB hard drive on it x4 amd 3.8Ghz

Does everything need to be done in Linux or can a pool be made for Windows etc???

I'll definitely be checking out your videos soon, I've wanted to set up a pool for awhile now, but just a local one to see how it would all work out.

Thanks for sharing, I have always wondered how to make your own mining pool.
Gave you a like and a favorite ;)

The easiest way is just to use a windows system running VMware or VirtualBox. The system specs you've provided seem good, just remember that you'll need enough RAM for the windows machine as well as the linux machine. I've found that if you have less than 1gb of RAM on the linux machine it's quite difficult to compile the wallet (ie you get lots of errors)

Cheers

Videos updates with new MPOS file format.

I have a couple of HP Proliant Servers Gen8 with 96 GB memory  each laying around in my study room doing nothing  but it run on Windows server OS.  I am not much of a Linux . Can you create the video utilizing Windows.

Good One
thanks for sharing
video makes it easy ;)

These videos are made on a windows machine.
It's just in a virtual machine which runs the linux OS.
If you've got a spare windows server, then you're ready to virtualize linux.

thanks for the tutorial I always wanted to host a bitcoin mining pool I already have a strong server will look into it and post with any questions.

Thanks for the videos.  It took a bit of coaxing, but I got bitcoin to work on it.  I just saw that you updated it for the changes in MPOS.  That was a pain to figure out why I couldn't get to it.  Still not sure about the stats showing in MPOS, but at least it seems to be working.  I've also got an eliopool working.  Any chance of being able to integrate MPOS as the front end for it?

Too bad you weren't around doing these vids in summer of 2011 I could have used them.

Back then I was planning to make a Namecoin mining pool but that never happened as I was never able to figure out how to get it up and running with the documentation that existed back then.

I'm sure many more viable pools would have been created had people known how to start their own mining pools.  Now most of the hash seems to be going to private farms owned by the ASIC companies themselves.

Really awesome! Keep it up please.

Any address we can donate to?

Awesome! Nice to get it free!  ;D

Awesome tutorial. I wish I had this earlier. I feel like it's too late to even try now.

Honestly, I expected in the last year that somebody would write a C implementation of a pool WITH stratum.

My personal opinion of slush's implementation(in Python) of stratum is....it sucks. I and many others have read his stratum documentation and it's lacking, one needs to read and understand the python code to implement this in anything else.

I've been honestly tempted to write this in C, but there just isn't enough time.

o/t (unless OP plans on a guide for it at some point), and not quite 'C' - being C#, but have you checked out Coinium?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=604476.0

Thank you for the guide  ;)

How can you configure it to allow users to set their worker difficulty?

I haven't checked this thread in ages.

Will be running through a bit of an update this weekend to help get it all sorted for latest MPOS build.

Donations (gratefully accepted: 1GvWrJSLNafra26jDwpScY5bqYcQ6BDhPW)

:D

I think you have shared such an useful post. I have also found a lot of videos on youtube. I hope you one's will be the best.

Hey there am glad i found you videos you have done on amazing work here i do appreciated,

i follow your tut i got everything up and running   but i get two errors would you plz help me to fix them here:

 
and


if you dont mine to post the commands as you did on the videos am new to linux as well Thanks...

Great tutorial on mining pools. I was always curious about mining pools and now I'm thinking of ways to host multiple pools. Thanks for the info!

Nice.  Thanks OP

Thanks! been looking for something like this for a while.

Can you make a tut about other algos? like x11,x13,grost,etc,etc...

i give up.i cant fix this error
 Database version mismatch (Installed: 0.0.13, Current: 0.0.14). Database update required, please import any new SQL files. Cronjobs have been halted.

sub'ed will try very soon. thx op for helping out the community ! great job. hope that you can update more for newbies :) more guide will be better

great for solo mining.

Hey thanks for the time to make these, bookmarking for sure. very educational.

I have the same issues.

Anyone found the fix for this ?

I solved this by changing one number in the data base :)

or try this
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=804227.msg9036080#msg9036080

I must say these videos are very informing. To be able to get it to work on a local network is a breeze the mail video I followed and it isn't working at the time. I think if he did make some more tutorials that he may just get some more donations for giving us people his time. It also helps the networks too.

Wished I knew what was going on with the email smtp. I did open ports 25 on the windows and the host and forwarded the gateway. Baffles me and has me piping hot. Want to get my coins off. I also want to add more pools but yet to that same interface. Any help with these would be awesome

replying here to bookmarked it, since someone pointed me towards this thread apology for the notification :)

Got everything up and running but... cant connect to website (using vmware)
Tried NAT and bridge and both cases didnt worked.
any idea why?

also how to access funds on wallet set at the begining?

If everyone who mined had their own pool, who would mine to all the pools?

derp

Hierarchical Pools - we must go deeper.

Looks like what I try to find out.
I'm not sure to understand...

I have a few machines and whenever I want to change a pool I need to apply it on all the machines manually...
I thought that a personal mining pool with all my devices connected to it would simplify if I would need to only change the setting on this personal pool... And this personal pool would of course be ONLY a bridge connected to another pool which would be the real one (meaning the personal one would only be an interface allowing me to avoid to lose hours of change of settings (I have 5 different kind of model of miners... so it takes a while to change settings as I need to do it manually in all machines)).

Is what you both talk about would allow me to solve my problem?
Or is there another way for me to do it?

Thanks ;)

You run a proxy ...

I'm ok with it but how to set it properly?
Cause this is not an http standard request and I don't know how to set it  ???

Great tutorial, pool is working now thanks :)

i will try it ba my self, but can enybody tel we a Pool is up and running to see the status page / performance eq...
what for a hardware i need for the pool? to create my own pool?

Excellent tutorial, going to test this right away :)
I've always been interested in how mining pools are set up

How to replace the localhost with the domain name?? Like stratum+tcp://stratum.mydomain.com:3333 ?
`How to add the pool on domain name..?

If any one know about tutorial from 2015 for bitcoin and litecoin mining pool,please reply with link.

FINIALLY, i have always wanted to try this, would doing this for an altcoin be the exact same minus the specifics ?

Thanks a lot for this guide :) I was looking out for this.

Will all these steps work on a windows server? A help is needed here.

Thanks.

you need to edit this file
/var/www/MPOS/include/config/global.inc.php

/**
 * Getting Started Config
 *  Shown to users in the 'Getting Started' section
 *   https://github.com/MPOS/php-mpos/wiki/Config-Setup#wiki-getting-started
 **/
$config['gettingstarted']['coinname'] = 'Litecoin';
$config['gettingstarted']['coinurl'] = 'http://www.litecoin.org';
$config['gettingstarted']['stratumurl'] = '';
$config['gettingstarted']['stratumport'] = '3333';

Hi, I have finished your tutorial now, but I have a problem. I am using bfg miner, and I can't find any new blocks, also my hashrate is at 0.00KH/S, do you know why?

What mining hardware are you using?  What do the logs say?

I am using BFGminer since I couldnt find any downloads to the cgminer, I think this is the log(I didnt add everything, because it would be so long, but it seems it has stopped up here). Also when I do a change in the folders, does it update automatically or do I have to do it in a way?

#### Loading LTC Scrypt #########################################################
2016-01-29 10:25:39,835 DEBUG halfnode # ########################################### NOT Loading SHA256 Transaction Message Support ######################################################
2016-01-29 10:25:39,836 DEBUG coinbasetx # Logging initialized
2016-01-29 10:25:39,837 DEBUG block_template # Logging initialized
2016-01-29 10:25:39,837 DEBUG block_template # Logging initialized
2016-01-29 10:25:39,837 DEBUG coinbaser # Logging initialized
2016-01-29 10:25:39,837 DEBUG bitcoin_rpc_manager # Got to Bitcoin RPC Manager
2016-01-29 10:25:39,838 DEBUG bitcoin_rpc # Got to Bitcoin RPC
2016-01-29 10:25:39,838 INFO mining # Connecting to litecoind...
2016-01-29 10:25:39,838 INFO bitcoin_rpc # Checking for submitblock

Both of those (bfgminer and cgminer) are software that interact with your mining hardware (like Antminer S7 or Avalon 6).  Also, are you trying to mine Litecoin?  You're in the wrong forum... you'd need to head on over to the alt coin area: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0

incredible tips

Im getting in node init.js logs: Database error when authenticating worker
any idea how to fix it?

This tutorial is very helpful for beginners.
Thanks Guys  :)

Yes, this video guides provided me some in depth knowledge on bitcoin mining process. I believe I have learnt many new things from this tutorial. Hoping to start bitcoin mining very soon with some confident.

If you're interested to start your own bitcoin mining pool, then there are lot of video that is available on YouTube , most useful to get started with. This video guide is also a very nice, but I believe you need more knowledge for this process.

Nice tutorial... But I give up  :-[
When I clone the bitcoin github, I can't find the makefile.unix.
I'm too much of a noob, but I really want to get this pool working -.-

what about https://unomp.org/

isnt it way to go nowadays?

And do you need very fast top specs server for running pool ?

I got 12 cores CPU 8GB RAM 180GB HDD, would that do ? Linux server would that do ?

thanks for sharing and thanks for your vidio. your video very helpfull  :D

Can you make a mining pool and profit without mining yourself?

Is it possible?  Yes.  Is it likely?  No.

To make money from running a pool (not including any advertisement or non-mining revenue like donations it might generate), you need to charge fees.  You then need to get a whole lot of miners hashing on your pool.

Here's an example.  Let's say you create a pool and charge 1% fees to your miners.  Let's also assume you manage to get 1PH/s of hashing power pointed to your pool.  Right now, that would expect to earn you about 0.009915BTC per day (or ~$6.50).

Let's use a real-world example.  Kano's pool charges miners 0.9% fee.  His pool has about 28PH/s of hashing power currently.  Expectations are that he'd make 0.24993BTC per day (roughly ~ $164.50).

Sure, it looks like easy money, right?  Good luck!  I've been running my pool for nearly a year and average about 150TH.  That's a drop in the ocean, especially considering about half of that is my own mining hardware.  I have a 0.5% fee.  Therefore, my current expected earnings per day from the pool alone is 0.0007435BTC a day (or roughly ~ $0.49).  That's less than $15 a month, which doesn't even come close to covering the costs of running the pool.

So how do you bring miners to your pool.. is all advertising  strategy and fees?  what about websites that list your pool( like a directory
) is there such a thing and do they charge as well? I am very green in this topic so please excuse my ignorance .  ;)

You need some way to attract miners to your pool.  That's what it all boils down to.  The more miners you convince to hash with you, the more coin you can make as a pool operator.  The problem is that the vast majority of the hash rate belongs to China.  Chinese pools represent over 75% of the network.  They continue to grow because that's where so much gear is produced and hosted.  Cheap all around costs mean higher profits from mining operations.

Look at the non-Chinese pools distribution for the past 3 months...

Slush - about 6.16% of the network
Kano - about 2.35% of the network
Eligius - about 0.12%
Bitminter - about 0.12%

Believe me, if I were running a pool for profit, I'd have closed it down a long time ago :)

Thanks for helping.

uNOMP's github says this:

link (https://github.com/UNOMP/unified-node-open-mining-portal)

If uNOMP is now unsupported, what is the de-facto software for pool development nowadays?

Props to OP for these video tutorials by the way, excellent step-by-step process :)

Pretty interesting.

Who here has actually made their own pool and is using it now?

The tutorial is great what  howesome

greate work man
so helpfull
reagrds for this

this guides are not working any more do you have any latest guide to make mining pool i an trying to make litecoin pool

Try to set up your litecoin pool with this guide: http://blockgen.net/setup-your-own-mining-pool/ (http://blockgen.net/setup-your-own-mining-pool/)

Sir i try to use that guide but don't work and that is quite old enough and don't have updated command as the MPOS file location also changes..also get this error but not reply till now i get in the blog also

where can i find step by step guide for bitcoin pool

perhaps there is any guide that work not only under linux but for windows too? i'm trying to set my own pool for winodws but it's seems like there is no example on the net, is this even possible?

Looks so: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1722278.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1722278.0)