Back online. Blocks found during the outage are still counted.

Bitcoin blockchain corrupt. Bitcoind is down. I am copying over a good one right now.  Will be back online in 5 minutes.

EDIT: 29% complete
EDIT: 50% complete
EDIT: 75% complete

I can't wait for the difficulty to drop.  Should go down about 8%.  It's been a rough week.

Giving it a try. Looks Good.

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Litecoin Wallet was low because of high transaction fees.  I think I can fix that.

I will fund the litecoin wallet as soon as my Bitcoin transaction to Vircurex is confirmed and I can trade for some Litecoins.  Should be taken care of in an hour or two.

Sorry for the trouble.

P.S. You might have noticed both pool servers dropping out.  That was me restarting them.

Don't forget my pool is PPLNS.  Your full payout rate won't be achieved until 24hrs after you start mining. P2Pool is also PPLNS. So P2Pmining.com rate is it's average over the last 24 hours. This makes this pool hop proof. 

The whole fiasco with the P2Pool bug is going to cause this past weeks stats to look horrible.  Hopefully forrestv has it figured out. I understand people are struggling with P2Pool and are frustrated.  Sucks being early adopters.

P2Pmining has the same luck as p2pool.  Cgminer is notorious for reporting pool is not serving work fast enough even on the fastest of pool server.

P2Pmining runs on a dedicated server in a datacenter in Florida. It is a Xeon quad core processor with 100mbit link.  I don't know why anyone should be having connection issues.

P2Pmining total hashrate does not effect variance or payout for miners using it.  Variance is based upon total hashrate of P2Pool.

P2Pmining is a free P2Pool server

You will always connect faster to a server right next to you than one that is half way across the country.

Efficiency in CGMINER has nothing to do with actual efficiency of the pool.  It has to do with the getwork requests vs. submitted shares.

Go to http://p2pmining.com:9332/static/ and look at efficiency there. That is how well p2pmining is doing vs. the rest of p2pool servers. Currently P2Pmining is at 119.5%.  Compare this with your local p2pool server and use the one with the higher efficiency.  Server connection to P2Pool nodes is as important as server connection to miners.

Every time I started my miner on p2pmining.com my DOA rate would go up to +10% and then come back down to around 4% indicating that hopping on and off P2Pmining.com would cause higher DOA rates.

The estimated PPS stat is a very rough estimate.  It swings above and below the mathmatical pps value (Currently 0.00002884).  It just shows how variable luck is.  

I hope this helps understand why mining on p2pmining.com is the way it is.

Thanks for playing.

Done.

Set fees to 0% for both pools indefinitely.

Happy Mining.

Problem with p2pool code last night.  There was some down time last night when the p2pool code started freaking out.  Had to update a couple times while forrestv was pushing out patches.  Litecoin pool will need to get updated tonight.

While I was upgrading I noticed that in bitcoin/networks.py that the SANE_TARGET_RANGE=(2**256//2**32 - 1 , 2**256//2**32 - 1)

I changed it in my code to a little bigger range than that.  Is that to default everyone to difficulty 1 pseudo shares?

p2pmining.com is now upgraded

P2Pmining.com is getting the same error, but most all of my users DOA rate as dropped from ~5% to less than 1%.

Couldn't sleep, so I added ability to change the payout address for bitcoin payments by signing it with your miner's address.  It's on the register merged mining tab.  This was requested by Smoov.

0.5 LTC confirmed is the payment threshold. Same as Bitcoin.

That was sent by a generous benefactor.

I can see where you would want that function.  I will try to implement that as soon as possible.  Probably by the end of the weekend.

Ok. For such a slow hashrate, make sure you add a +1 to the end of your username to ensure steady difficulty 1 shares.

Litecoin p2pool server is open for business.

Point Litecoin miner at p2pmining.com:9327

There is no changing share difficulty with this pool.