mobodick has been a member since 2011, I don't think he would want to ruin his rep with a few stupid altcoins. Use him for escrow if you need it.

I mined about 90 orphans when the coin was first released and actually only got 1 block.

Orphans are a bitch.

I explained how I got that above, idk if I'm right.

Based on my calculations, 1000KH/s currently makes 4425.6432CNC/day.

Of course I'm not sure I'm right. I used a litecoin calculator and set the difficulty to 1. Then I took how much you made * 1.76 since there are 88 coins and not 50.

Then, I took that times * 2.5 because there is 1 minute blocks instead of 2.5 minute blocks.

Someone is still mining with the incorrect settings. Whoever it is, you are basically donating to me. You should really make sure your miner is setup up right.

Glad to see it kept running throughout the night.

May I ask how you sort/move the rows so they are descending. Like, a picture guide?

Guys, that is how P2Pool works. You only find a P2Pool difficulty share every once in awhile, and when you do, you get paid for awhile. When you disappear off the mining page that means that your payment run is over and you need to mine more before you will appear there again.


For smaller miners, it will take up to 1-4 hours depending on how lucky you are (variance) before you appear on the site again.



Look at that gap. I only have 200kh/s, and it took me over an hour to find a P2Pool block. Don't worry! That is normal. You will still be paid what you earned.

Yeah this is very nice. I just added myself on there.

It depends on luck. There is a high variance with P2Pool. Sometimes you will make more, sometimes you will make less. Over time it evens out to what you should make depending on your hashrate. Switching pools doesn't change luck.

Some people can't take variance though, it's understandable.

The difficulty is 1 now as well, it is 4 times less profitable to mine.

That's nothing I can't handle.

And I sort of forgot to answer your question straight out. Yes, that statement was only for those using smaller shares.

If you are using +0.00025 you should wait until you see transactions coming into your wallet before you stop mining, because that means one of your shares was a high enough difficulty to be accepted.

If you aren't using +0.00025 you should stop mining as soon as you get a single share, because that means you mined a P2Pool share.

The best way I can explain it is with an example.


Notice how none of those shares are actually difficulty 16.

Even if you are sending more shares, you won't actually make anything until you get a share that is equal to or higher then P2Pool's difficulty. That share in the middle over a thousand was one I think.

You aren't loosing anything though, don't misunderstand.


Lets say it took you an hour, but you finally got a P2Pool share. It wouldn't have mattered if your difficulty was 16, or set by the pool, because you still had a share worth enough to be a P2Pool share. The setting basically tells cgminer "Don't send any shares lower then this difficulty".


It's hard to explain, if you read up on the bitcoin wiki about how shares and pools work you may understand better. The point is, wait until you start receiving money in your wallet before you stop mining.

What do you mean?

I'm not 100% sure on how P2Pool works, It's been a long time since I've used it. From my knowledge all shares are pooled, and for every share you mine you will get a slice of a block until your share expires from said share pool. Looking at the code I think that share pool is 120 shares in size.

I'm talking about P2Pool shares, not low difficulty shares. (Again, I think)

Sadly, I do not think so. If you really want to stop you should wait for your next P2Pool share, then stop right after.

High difficulty and low difficulty really make no difference since you don't make anything until you mine a high difficulty share anyway. Your shares aren't consistently what you set it to, you just set the minimum that you want to generate.

In the end, it makes zero difference. I'd just leave it.

Even if you are mining with the lower difficulty, you are still just waiting until you get to the P2Pool difficulty. You won't recieve anything until you find a P2Pool share. Keep mining, it is just luck. Once you find one, you will be paid a consistent amount for a total of 120 P2Pool shares (I think that is what the PPLNS is set to).

!!! Someone mining either screwed up their address or didn't set one! You will not receive coins by doing that, you are basically donating to me. !!!

Double check your miners if you think this is you.

I think you just got really lucky earlier, the version had nothing to do with it.

That was because you were getting transactions from two separate versions. One with the small transactions, and one with the big ones.

Update: I downgraded back to the old version with the small transactions. The latest version had stales that were too high for my tastes.