Not sure what coins you're looking to add, but there's a github repository by rav3n that has a ton of coins already in it: https://github.com/Rav3nPL/p2pool-rav.git

If I'm reading the code correctly, it should top out at 100MB.

mdude77 congrats on finding that block

I just checked out HUC.  Interesting concept - build mining into a game.  I'll look into setting up my node to merge mine it.  Will have to compile the daemon from source (no Qt version for my Mac, and I really don't feel like trying to screw with the code to make one).  I've had nothing but problems trying compile Qt clients - consistently get weird errors.  It's probably something in my environment, but I haven't had the time to figure it out.

You did it correctly.  You've replaced the listed files with the ones from the auto-worker-diff tag.

The p2pool code looks at the node's total hash rate and assigns difficulty based upon that.  There are forks of the code that address the issue of trying to assign difficulties by address/miner.  See here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=269042.280.

Trying to keep it as simple as possible...

VPS is what pretty much every service out there offers you.  You get a virtualized machine with superuser access allowing you to install whatever you want on it.  Sign up at Digital Ocean, AWS, etc, you get a VPS.

A dedicated server is bare metal.  You get the entire processing power of that box to yourself.  Unless you own your own data center, or rent space in one, chances are exceptionally slim you'll get an entire server to yourself, or if you do you're going to pay a fortune for the privilege.

Cloud mining means that somebody is hosting miners in a facility and is selling you hashing power on those machines.  If I were to relate this to VPS and dedicated servers, I would do so as follows:

VPS - services like cex.io, pbmining, etc offer you the ability to buy hashing contracts
Dedicated - You buy your own mining hardware and someone hosts it in their data center for you.  Effectively, you'd pay rent (hosting fees) for your machine using up their space/electricity.

mdude77, I read about this in the p2pool thread.  If I understand it correctly, for every block of NMC, IXC, DVC your p2pool node finds, you will be converting them into BTC and donating to the entire p2pool network.

What a great idea, and a bit of incentive for folks to mine on p2pool.  I really like it, and should my own local node ever be lucky enough to find another block I will follow through and do the same as I currently merge mine as well.

Glad to see you got everything resolved!  The problem was that you had not completed downloading the block chain, so your miners were finding and submitting shares that could not be rectified.

Learning experience for everyone who wants to setup their own node - absolutely ensure that you've completed synchronizing the block chain before mining on your p2pool node

I figured you weren't really using 'xxxxxxxxxx'

Monitor your node for a while.  Like I wrote, when I looked at it, you had a 10% DOA rate.  Now, you're up to 23%.  You have a problem with your network connectivity between your miners and your node, or your miners are configured incorrectly.

That's precisely your problem.  Your miners found 9 shares, all of which were lost.  The 8 orphaned mean they got to the p2pool network too late.  The dead one means it didn't even make it out to the network at all.

You've got a connectivity issue from your p2pool node, and possibly a miner configuration issue.  How many inbound/outbound connections do you have?  Are you running a fully synched Bitcoin node?  Have you setup some limits in your configuration files to limit the number of connections?

EDIT: I just looked at your stats page.  You made a typo in your link, but I figured you didn't really mean p2ptool

Anyway, looking at the stats from the past few minutes since you've fired up your node, you've got a 10% DOA.  That's about 9% too high.  What is the latency between your miners and the machine running the p2pool node?  Between the node and the bitcoind?

How many shares does your node report it has found (how many orphan, how many dead)?
What does your node report for current hash rate?

LOL... you might be getting it for free, your Uncle certainly isn't.  He's paying for the electricity costs of all of those 1500 instances, which by the way will certainly increase because they are now drawing far more power than they were before when they were sitting idle doing nothing but storage as you said.  He's also dealing with the risk associated with you pegging all of those CPUs to 100%.  To him, it is likely very worth the investment of a couple of those blade miners.  He'd make the investment back on power savings alone.

The Scrypt blade miners are ASIC hardware for mining coins like LTC, DOGE, etc.  At present Gridseed manufactures them, along with their 5-chip dual miners.  The miners are dual blades, with each blade having 40 chips, for a total of approximately 5.2 MH/s from the unit, all for about 140 watts.  You can pick them up for about $1500 USD give or take.  If you were to pick one up for yourself, you'd have to deal with VAT and customs fees (depending on where in Europe you are).  I'm not sure what kind of tax/import fees there are in Brazil.

Gotcha.  That makes far more sense.  Your Uncle is a very nice guy if he's letting you peg all those CPUs to 100% all the time.  You should tell him to pick up a couple of those Scrypt blade miners and hook them into a single machine in his data center.  You'd get greater hash rate, and he'd not have to worry about you burning out his machines.

You do remember it

297777 was mine.

Pretty much.


Please tell me I'm not reading this correctly or that you've misrepresented your hash rate, or you're mining something other than BTC.  1500 sessions.  7MH/s???  I get far greater rate than that out of my MacBookPro running CPU miner.

You're using Putty.  All you have to do is start your remote miners with the nohup command added to them.  Example:

nohup ./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.somepool.com:3333 -u workerName -p workerPassword &

If you were to use screen as was suggested earlier, you'd have to install it on the remote machine.  Not sure what Linux flavor those remote machines are running, but if they're on a Debian-derived distro, you'd just do this:

sudo apt-get install screen

Then, you'd start your miners like this:

sudo screen -dmS MyMiners ./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.somepool.com:3333 -u workerName -p workerPassword

This starts up a session in the background.  To access it, you'd just do this:

sudo screen -dR MyMiners

Then, once you're in the screen, to get out of it, all you need to do is hold down the control key and hit a then d.

I've also been playing around with the front end code, but haven't put as much time into it as you have.  I've done some modifications to the javascript (for both the calculation of node/miner payouts as well as to the charting scripts to add in other information).  Recently I've started playing around with the python to get more statistics, total BTC network hash rate, block difficulty, etc.  Unfortunately my job gets in the way, and when I am home and have free time, the little woman prefers I spend it with her rather than going on about "that bitcoin thing you do".


Your friend's node makes up about 10 to 15 percent of the p2pool network by itself.  Impressive bit of hardware he's got online.

Here you go:

--- 162.242.245.151 ping statistics ---
20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.774/18.033/47.896/6.942 ms

I'm in the southern part of New Jersey...

Great start and nice work on the front end by the way.