In the next couple days, I'm going to release a hard-forking change to P2Pool that will make the following changes:
Global changes
* Increase last transaction extranonce length from 4 bytes to 8 bytes, so full 4-byte Stratum workunits can be efficiently generated (which will prevent the need for the avalon branch)
* Delay payout calculation 1 share so that payouts can be calculated ahead of time, reducing latency between a new share being received and work being distributed to miners
* Option to set a "dust target," which increases your share difficulty so that you don't get payouts below that target
Bitcoin network
* Increase SHARE_PERIOD (average time between shares) from 10 seconds to 30 seconds, in order to make it more fair for high-latency miners (read: ASICs)
Litecoin network
* Decrease SPREAD (number of blocks a share's payout is spread over, on average) from 12 blocks to 3 blocks, significantly decreasing the dust payouts generated for miners who get a share less often than every 3 blocks the pool finds
Warnings will be spammed to miners (UPGRADE REQUIRED) once 50% of each P2Pool's mining power has upgraded and the changes will take effect 12 hours after 95% of the mining power has been upgraded, as usual.
If anyone has any recommendations for additional changes or comments on these, please respond.
YES! Guess I'll be able to throw a few Gh of reduced variability your way after all! |
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I'm having trouble getting my BFL Jalapeno to connect with the Beta Java client. It can (usually) see my ASIC just fine, but once I start it, no hashing occurs, and the stats on the site don't show I'm sending any results. Turning on the CPU results in some hashing, so there's no bad connection or anything, and EasyMiner lets me connect to Eclipse without incident.
I'm running the latest version of Java, on Parallels (64-bit Win 7) on a Mac. The client worked fine until the DDOS attacks began this weekend; now for some strange reason I can't hash with it, despite it showing I'm connected to the server.
Anything change in the client I should know about? Or something new I need to do?
EDIT: I have verbose logs turned on; client keeps saying "New connection established" followed by "Connection closed after X request-response exchanges", where X is any number from 0 to 3.
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So jalapeno p2pool yes or no?
No (see my guide for why). And... that's even worse.... *looks for guide* EDIT: OK, so the main problem with using BFL ASICs is the latency, which is made an issue by p2pool's 10-second share window. I don't know how popular the other ASICs are, but I would think p2pool needs as much hardware (especially powerful hardware) as it can get if it's going to remain a viable option. Has anyone brought up the idea of increasing the share window, even up to a full 1 minute? Wouldn't this effectively squash the hardware latency issue (and fix one or two other issues as well?) |
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Anybody noticed that p2pool's hash rate has plummeted by about 30% in the last week ? Even more significant is the decline in the number of participants.
Beginning of the end of Bitcoin ?
Well, that sucks. I just got my Jalapeno today. It's hooked up to BitMinter at the moment (I liked their fees and policies) but I had planned on figuring out how to use p2pool with it. And really, I see little reason not to still do so, provided the collective hash rate doesn't drop too low. I'd probably be fine with one or two blocks a day. I know I won't be generating much soon anyway, but I'd still like to support the concept of p2pool for as long as possible. *rolls up sleeves* |
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Just listened to the segment. That was a nice job! You made excellent points, and I liked that you didn't make it all about the money, but about breaking away from the powers trying to control us.
Every radio show that knows what's really going on needs to get that kind of info.
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According to FINCEN.
*Shrug* They're decentralized. The legality doesn't matter, they'll have a pretty rough time stopping them. |
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[...] government-defying Super Mario coins.
[...] this is a giant pile of e-nonsense
Perhaps there will soon be a Bitcoin Redemption Center, where for 1,000 Bitcoins you have the choice of a Styrofoam helicopter, a stuffed Pikachu doll, or a sharing-size box of Everlasting Gobstoppers.
Do you ever get that message from John St. Crucible, the missionary from Nigeria who uses far too many articles in his requests for $70,000 sent via Western Union to the Church where he works? Check your spam -- I guarantee you he thinks your investment will pay off in the millions within two weeks. This is the same league.
The truth is, we know nothing of what goes on at Bitcoin headquarters.
We also know that if you lose a life while playing Mortal Kombat, your $129 Bitcoin can probably buy you another.
[...] Pig Latin of currencies.
..... I would have been incensed had I actually given that author a click and then read this drivel. It's amazing, the mindset of folks unable to comprehend that ideas, technology, art, and all manner of abstract things can be just as important, valuable and real as material objects. It's almost like dealing with children, and particularly dull ones at that. |
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It's a default setting that can be turned off (reduced to 0.00000001 BTC, anyway, IIRC.) There's no reason for me to not upgrade, especially since I'm pretty leery of SatoshiDice's benefit to Bitcoin.
Even refusing to upgrade in protest would do no more for me than just upgrading and reducing the minimum.
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And you're not even going to do us the favor of quoting a few excerpts? Almost sounds like you want the article to get hits.  |
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sorry but what ripple is doing on this list
You can use ripple to transact in bitcoin denominated IOUs, so therefore it is related to bitcoins. i know what ripple is and i dont agree it should be there This. You can spend bitcoin to buy Gyft cards too, but no one would suggest it being listed as a "bitcoin site." |
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Any lurkers here are welcome to contact Bitcoin Bandits with ideas on how to improve the service. Their goal is to mitigate Bitcoin fraud, which us good for all of us.
Well, except for the scammers.
I don't plan on signing up for the service. But as a thought, it might be nice if they give at minimum a one-line reason why any given IP address is considered a "bandit" address. Not only so we can vet their info for ourselves, but so we can recognize and respond to wrong info (like, your own IP address being on there, with no legitimate reason for it.) |
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At first I thought your trip would take you through West Kentucky. Then I saw you were headed toward the other side of the state. Bummer.
But hey, if your return trip takes you down this way, lemme know.
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Do you normally try to log in to user-friendly websites without cookies enabled? How does that usually work out for you?
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Hmm. Actually just visited their site both with private browsing, and via Tor. Worked just fine.
If they aren't going to such ridiculous extremes, then they're no worse than Facebook and company (meaning, measured use is reasonable.)
BTC Books, if you do try it on a phone w/o service and have issues, it would be good to know. I suspect you won't though.
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Hmm. Looks like you've overreached.
The most troublesome issue here (to my mind) is issue #4.
Yet I just used Tor AND private browsing to access their website. Seemed to work fine for me.
FUD much?
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My problem with the app is that I can't normally install the app to any of my devices. The app is country locked. Sucks ass.
Yup, no Gyft app in Canada it appears. Um, of course.... gyft is a tracking and de-anonymization scheme. Letting you use non-USA mobile phones would defeat the whole purpose. You didn't actually expect that to work, did you? While I don't automatically think every attempt to make spending bitcoins convenient is a tracking scheme of some sort... It's a scheme for spying on bitcoin users.
Notice how these "gyft cards" must be linked to a facebook or google account and must be spent on a US-based (aka trackable/traceable) cellular phone.
And their website blocks tor.
And their website also blocks any users with private browsing enabled.
Yeah, this is pretty much worthless.
...all those unnecessary anti-privacy measures are definitely a cause for concern. At the very least, my expected usage of the service has dropped dramatically. |
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Nice! Used their service to send a last-minute mother's day gift. Bought the Gyft card with bitcoins. Life is good.  |
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If it was easier then that would allow more fraud to take place. If people can't go to a website and open a free Wallet then they shouldn't be handling finances on the internet anyway.
This. OP's expectation for ease of use is entirely unreasonable. If grandma is truly too stupid (which usually translates into too willfully ignorant and stubborn) to even use friggin' web-based email, she shouldn't be using bitcoin in the first place.That's a little like complaining that purchasing, maintaining and driving a car is too difficult for a 4-year-old. Good, it should be. He can enjoy the perks of such a tool when he's mature enough to handle all that, and to worry in the meantime that cars may be too complex for the general public based on his lack of ability is unwarranted. |
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Nice job!
Looking forward to getting my hands on one (I've been waiting for a decent bitcoin shirt, payable in bitcoins.)
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Coercion of innocent parties is wrong. No amount of grandstanding or excuses about "we're protecting everyone" changes that.
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