Couple of issues with P2Pool.

--Memory Leak

The current p2pool software has a memory leak that uses all the available ram until it shuts down. It's an unfortunate pain.

--Hashrate

People go where the hashrate is. There used to be a p2pool.darkcointalk.org but the hashrate just became so miniscule that it had to be shut down. Even the main mpos pool http://mining.darkcointalk.org currently operating doesn't have a hashrate comparable to the top three pools. This is probably because of the misconception that a pool with a higher hashrate pays better when in fact, it pays exactly the same. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=13002.0 (If you do mine, consider mining occasionally on the DCT pool it pays for the forums)

--Dust Payments

When mining on a p2pool, you receive payments in very small inputs over the course of a day. Unlike a traditional pool when you can specify when to withdraw your coins or set up a predetermined withdrawal amount, you have no control over a p2pool payment. After a certain amount of transactions into the wallet, the QT wallet fails to function properly and becomes unusable. (possible bug with qt itself)

--P2pool is unusable for small miners

P2pool works by using a shared chain. It requires a higher hashrate than an MPOS or NOMP pool due to it needing to submit work faster than the latter. This disqualifies cpu miners from ever submitting valid shares in the time frame required of them.  The minimum hashrate for LTC's p2pool is roughly 10MH/s. Before ASIC's I believe it was around 2.5MH/s. Unfortunately, I don't have the information to determine the minimum hashrate needed for a Darkcoin p2pool. Vertoe asked on stackoverflow but the answer was awful. http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/24557/how-to-calculate-the-minum-recommended-hashrate-for-p2pool-network

So there definitely are some drawbacks to p2pool. I think it's a great concept but impractical.

Not entirely trivial. I've thought about it. p2pool is in python and has a lot of deps, official wallet is c++, result would be unwieldy...

I think they are best kept separate for now, but a simple to install (1-click) prepackaged p2pool would be awesome.

edit: adding some code to the official wallet to seek out the nearest p2pool node and use that instead of solo mining would be 100x easier.

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We still seem to be on the wrong fork-solving block 166233 15 minutes ago (at time of this post) when that block was solved yesterday already.

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That's right folks, call it whatever you like, the user never has to know they're utilising that dirty Darkcoin stuff!  

Tried it now, not picking it up- sgminer.exe -k darkcoin-mod -o stratum+tcp://68.112.53.84:80 -u Xt6hnRBqBkqfnQhqivcbQc7Bt1Pov9XBAg

I do not have access to the network/router settings, i.e, no port forwarding as my miners are not in my home.

Is that what you are basically doing?

I did email the owners to inform them, it looks like they have updated to the correct protocol version though.

I would have joined another pool, but they are the only ones who allow access over port 80, something my miners need.

hi,

how to upgrade p2pool

its difficult to find the right p2pool version and wallet.

thanks

Anybody having issues with p2p pools? Out node finds blocks but the payouts are terrible or sometimes we get blocks that don't show up in the chain, like this- http://explorer.darkcoin.io/block/0000000000027ade77e23bb76eacbd225ada0621c013643252cd07193234d27e

The node I'm using is http://p2drk.mupool.com/static/

Any reason why p2p is suffering?

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Edit: Sorry for terrible audio quality, I need a new mic!

Very much so. It has already been said to use coincontrol to send the coins to a new address. Just keep clicking inputs until you get fee, then deselect the latest to drop below the threshold and send. It's a pain in the ass, but it's not terrible.

You'll need to consolidate those coins by sending them to yourself.
Once that's done you'll need to make a wallet.dat file and send your coins to that new wallet file.

That's way to big.

You'll still want to rename your old wallet.dat file to walletOLD.dat and save it for future reference.

Move the zillions of inputs to another input (or even a completely different wallet) via coincontrol and start again.

P2Ppool payments, especially when there are tenths of thousands of them, are not easy to handle for a wallet.

This is currency independent.

How big is your wallet.dat file?