There are many powerful CPUs out there but hardly any of them are owned by people who know about this coin or care to mine it, and it is unlikely that number increased by a factor of three in a few hours.

That looks amazing. BFL may yet redeem themselves.

You never know what programming or algorithmic tricks someone may come up with, but I agree a botnet is more likely.

Don't worry about it, if they want to burn down a botnet to mine a few coins, let them. Self correcting.

Great job NoodleDoodle!

Has anybody tried write protecting the SD? Don't now if that would help with the corruption, but it might.

No. Alias only maps to the public key, which can't be connected to the transactions.

Total hash rate is about 10000. With 29 you should get 0.29% of the blocks. There are 1440 blocks per day so you should be getting 4 blocks per day at that rate. You might want to keep going.

I agree, as I said.  My only question is one of organization.

It is actually bad for you -- and for the novice miners to which you refer -- if your site is in a section with 100 other p2pool nodes.

There needs to be some sort of organization to it.

I agree with you entirely. I see a lot of value in user-friendly p2pool nodes. That is not the issue I'm raising.

The issue is whether there should be a separate list or section for pools that offer distinct functionality from what every other p2pool node offers. I believe there should be such a list. Perhaps improved web site or better stats is enough to be on that list. Maybe a sentence or short phrase describing what is unique about the node is a good compromise

I have an escrowed order to buy 1000 MRO with 75 DRK. PM me to trade.

I do not. I'm just providing community feedback. I find it useful to differentiate on a guide between generic p2pool nodes and pools that offer something else (even if backed by p2pool). If the rest of the community does not agree with me then so be it. I'm capable of figuring out which is which, but it is somewhat tedious.

You have to give a clear definition.

Is a p2pool node with a fancy web site considered a proxy or is some added functionality required?

I don't see where his node is a proxy (as you define it). I clicked over to his web site and it looks just like a node to me. He certainly doesn't seem to be reducing the hash rate barrier, because it explicitly says that miners get coinbase transactions and get paid if they have one share in the share chain.

As far as the knowledge barrier, I'm not sure what you mean by that. Every public p2pool node reduces the knowledge barrier in the sense that people can use it without having to install and configure their own p2pool node and bitcoin node.

If someone has one it would be you. Come on, spill the beans.

That CPU is not listed in the hardware comparison so hard to say. Everyone so far has reported getting a lower hash rate with the Windows build than compiling from source on Linux. If you want to optimize try that.

Look at the section "Egalitarian proof of work"

https://cryptonote.org/inside.php

You need to do


Then you can open the wallet with

Quite false. Most students are on some kind of financial aid and/or in debt up to their eyeballs (though with a good degree from MIT the debt load is probably reasonable). The main reason these schools are so expensive is so they can soak it to the relatively few rich, often foreign (Chinese, Saudis, etc.), students by charging them sticker price.

Anyway, this is a strategic pro-BTC advocacy move (and a smart one) not charity. If anything think of the $100 as a small rebate on the $60K/year it costs to go there (again sticker price)

I may not understand what you are trying to accomplish.

If H1 is slow but does not require a lot of random access to memory, then you can run H1 on a GPU or ASIC, then deliver a set of indexes into the blockchain to the node. If the blockchain fits in memory then you are doing a handful of memory accesses and the other work may dominate. If the blockchain does not fit in memory, then you are giving a huge advantage to people with large solid state drives (flash or battery DRAM) or probably better the ability to store the block chain in a memory kvs across multiple servers.

This may frustrate decentralization because you are better off just maintaining a connection to a node/pool with such a device than running node yourself.

If you want to use the block chain for PoW like Ethereum to require miners to run nodes (but see above), then you can probably do something simple like:

B = block
E = hash function, such as Keccak
B(i) = blockchain data at index i (mod len(blockchain) or some such)

H1=E(B)
H2=E(B+1)
PoW= E(B(H1))+H2)

Could be repeated, but not sure that adds much.

Maybe that is close to what you propose, but again I don't see the point to using a scratchpad at all. The blockchain is essentially your scratchpad.

Botnets mining (which is stupid for them) is a good thing longer term. Not something to be worried about. This is obvious to anyone who thinks through the economic and game theory aspects of it.