Should you increase the difficulty of the work you are asking for to avoid the 'not fast enough' issue?

You must be using cgminer instead of vertminer (a vertcoin compatible mod of cgminer)? Vertcoin doesn't use standard scrypt.

You should average your expected daily rate. You won't receive payments in every single block.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=404364.msg4964053#msg4964053

He's on irc if you want to go talk to him. Site was attacked and he's restoring from backup.

There are many USA p2pool nodes though, beyond just the first two I launched. Hmm.

Powertune +20 just turns off the power saving features that lower gpu performance when the drivers don't think it is needed. Voltage I never ever touch.

I asked the IRC bot.

<VertBot17> roy7: At 624KH/s (equivalent to 1248KH/s with regular scrypt), you should make 4.06 VTC per day at current diff.

So you should make about 4/day on average if diff remains the same. The coins you get per block will vary based on the # of shares you have in the share chain and the number of blocks p2pool finds. But over time it will average out properly.

Vertcoin P2Pool Hashrate: 467MH/s, P2Pool Share Diff: 0.062 (4k), P2Pool User: 138, P2Pool Luck: 77.2% (79 blocks in 24h).

So the network is unlucky past 24 hours. (Maybe the luck % is thrown off by the skyrocketing diff earlier today, I'm not sure.) If you had .06 in the share chain all day long, you'd have made 4.7 VTC today.

I'm curious what makes Bitcrush so popular? 1450 miners and 1.4Ghash, even with registrations closed.

Went ahead and ordered my first one. Looking forward to it.

Not at all.

Some sort of attack. He's restoring from backup.

The east node I run had to be restarted, resulting in a new IP. I took the opportunity to relocate it to faster hardware. New address people should use is

http://vtc-us-east.royalminingco.com:9171/static/

Simple example provided on there on how to set cgminer to use a fail over pool in case one goes down.

If your wallet is having trouble getting connected and running, feel free to addnode=vtc-us-east.royalminingco.com:5889

P2pool can be rough for small miners because of high variance. Still though, 150Kh/s should find a share now and then. If you go to the Graphs link on the node you mine at you can find some charts for your hash rate and your amount of payment (if block is found) under your mining address. That way you can be sure the mining is working properly. If the variance is too high for your comfort level, there are other normal pools running MPOS out there too.

Are you using one of the custom miners from the web site? Standard cgminer/etc won't work. VTC doesn't use standard scrypt algorithm.

Since cgminer has dropped GPU support, I suggest future vertminer builds be based on the bfgminer codebase.

I'm curious if any more info about 60-chip blades were released?

There is no minimum hashrate. But the lower your hash rate, the higher your variance.

Work restarts should happen every time a share is found on the share chain. I'm not sure offhand what the target rate for that is on VTC, might be every 15-30 seconds. I'm not sure why you wouldn't see that on other p2pool nodes though. They should all function identically.

Occurs to me I don't think I allow connects to my wallets on the p2pool nodes from the outside. Maybe I should open those up tonight.

There are no partial shares. Either a hash meets the difficulty requirement, or it doesn't. The shares the miner reports back that are lower difficulty is just for the graphs and so you can know the pool is working by estimating the miner's hash rate. But those aren't shares in terms of the PPLNS payment system. Real shares (that pay out) are reported immediately to the rest of the p2pool network to go onto the share chain, and then are paid on all blocks found until that share is too old.

All work miners do is meaningless in terms of getting paid until they find a share with a high enough difficulty to make it onto the share chain. "Normal" pools add tiny shares onto their payment databases constantly, but p2pool doesn't operate that way.