Well, there's a lot more competition now then before, but for some of the older 'cpu only' altcoins, ppl would still use the GPU miners, but not distribute them publicly.

I  guess now the "in" thing to do is release it with some built in fee

ed: eh, fixed grammar.. a little

there are so many scams and frauds cause ppl are idiots

easy targets, easy money =  more scammers and fraudsters

I'd *think* that your typical bitcoin user is a bit more intelligent then the avg facebook user... but I wouldn't be surprised if a good one out of every three or four of those ppl have compromised passwords

no built in functionality like that, no.


so what doesn't work about it?  that would work, if you had some build of p2pool that included vertcoin and it was in the /home/<current user>/p2pool-vtc directory

What is TRC?  *boggle*

What does the 'score' in getnetworkinfo signify? ... or better, is there some sort of measure to quantify what you see as a 'score'?

Japan rocks.  I'm certain that exposed toilet would violate several laws here in the US (ed: and leave you open to a variety of civil lawsuits)

I've actually only ever had one BS bitcoin email besides that one on my facebook acct.  I've had some godawful amount sent to the junk folder on my primary email address, though...

THANKS MT GOX!

sent to me via the Nogleg page on facebook:

Chris Savage
Jun 23rd, 5:17am
Dear Friend,
I write this because I know you stole 91.4 BTC from me on 24 November 2013.  

I am prepared to forgive you but to obtain Gods mercy is dependant on your returning just half what you took and I would forgive you the remaining debt and pray to God to also show you mercy and forgiveness.

Praise be to God / Allah.  

The address to send 45 BTC is 18HNhww8pH2411omBoy6zRqmZZ4TW6LfK7

Sincerely,
Chris Savage

FFS

ed:

http://www.reddit.com/user/superoxy

hehe

I have a bit under one bitcoin to my name. 

I never solo mined and solved ~60 or so blocks in total, with the vast majority of those being before the reward was halved.  So I guess something like 2500-3500, unless I either god incredibly lucky or incredibly unlucky on the pooled mining...

I had to mine bitcoins to buy new hardware, so I don't regret selling them as I mined them.  If I hadn't, then I never would have gotten to my max of ~12ghash/s, I would have been forever at the 1.3ghash/s or so after buying four 5830's...  I mean with the 20/20 hindsight, it would have been better to NOT reinvest, and just horde all the coins those initial four 5830's made (likely in the hundreds)...  but that's not something I can kick myself over.

I do regret selling the ones I mined when I was at 12ghash/s though, seeing as how at that point I wasn't buying any more hardware (ASICs coming).  I still wouldn't have had a million $ worth, though (using today's market price).  Probably made 500 or less of that total after I reached 12ghash.

...that being said, if I had gambled on and received that first generation Avalon, I'm relatively certain I'd have several hundred bitcoins still in storage.  I mean, the vast majority of ASICs didn't start hitting the market until about 2-3 months after that first batch of Avalons.  I'd be baffled as to how someone couldn't be a 'bitcoin millionaire' if they had purchased one of those for $1200 or w/e it was (and received it).

Yeah, I've had some jackass company shut down one of my servers for that too.  

re: running bitcoind = mining

(ed: i remember now, it was host1plus and a south africa vps)

If he wanted to store USD and not bitcoins, sure.

So then I guess you're assuming that if he actually was active on the project, then it wouldn't affect donations?

in any case, I had my donations set to 0% but I'm fairly certain I sent at least 1% directly to that p2pool donation address, from people with invalid names submitting shares

on the next update, maybe he should make it possible to not input a default address, so then ppl with messed up names end up donating their bitcoins, and you can still have it set to 0% for everyone else

well, i updated the client

$25 to go and another 5838 years..

A single peer could easily be better than 50.  There are too many variables.

Upstream inparticular is limited for some people, so if you get connected to a peer downloading the blockchain (and don't have something like Netlimiter), it could saturate your upstream and put you up around 1/2 a second latency to your first hop.  Likewise, a lot of peers that you request the blockchain from will either not send it at all or (even worse) will send it very slowly.  The client isn't aggressive enough in switching peers it tries to download the blockchain from.  Get connected to 8 random nodes & sometimes you'll get crap.

I've said it before, but when I ran p2pool on any server other than nogleg.com, I ran a bitcoind with two connections, one went to nogleg.com, and one was for p2pool.  Probably a better idea is to have three, in case that one goes down or gets DoS'ed or DDoS'ed or something (happened occasionally).  The p2pool client sends any blocks discovered over the p2pool network which I assume is faster than bitcoind the vast majority of the time (compare your p2pool log to your bitcoin debug log & time it to the millisecond, see which one reports it first).  Bitcoind I don't believe is needed except to generate new blocks, getheaders & maybe transactions? Aren't the other blocks also relayed via the p2pool network?

I haven't gone over the source in a long time, maybe it got changed since mid-2012.

I could be wrong here since it's been so long since I've mined on a p2pool with block times (ed: *over* a minute that is) under a minute, but I think it only detects the stale shares after a block.... but all shares should be submitted, as some share that's detected as stale (say, 1ms to 500ms late) could easily win an orphan race, esp. vs some of the pools that aren't set up quite right (propagate their blocks slowly).

from personal experience, I've had a share that was detected as DOA solve a bitcoin block, back in 2012

About $250, cause I'm pretty sure I could resell it for more.

If we lived in a fantasy land where I couldn't resell the hardware, I'd pay about $100 for it.

Yes, but it won't show up in the p2pool block list, either.... and you won't get the .5% bonus for it, just the "normal" amount earned.

... also why no-submit-stale is bad to use with p2pool.

Here's my bitcoind, I restarted it not too long ago:

15194 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S 21.9  4.7  2h08:28 bitcoind
15195 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S  0.0  4.7  0:02.46 bitcoind
15196 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S  0.0  4.7  0:00.33 bitcoind
15197 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S  0.0  4.7  0:00.32 bitcoind
15198 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S  0.0  4.7  0:00.32 bitcoind
15199 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S  0.0  4.7  0:00.31 bitcoind
15200 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S  0.0  4.7  0:00.34 bitcoind
15201 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S  0.0  4.7  0:00.32 bitcoind
15202 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S  0.0  4.7  0:00.33 bitcoind
15211 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S 12.0  4.7  1h12:37 bitcoind
15212 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S  0.0  4.7  0:01.62 bitcoind
15213 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S  0.0  4.7  0:00.85 bitcoind
15214 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S 10.0  4.7 55:37.93 bitcoind
15215 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S  0.0  4.7  0:00.22 bitcoind
15216 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S  0.0  4.7  0:00.01 bitcoind
15217 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S  0.0  4.7  0:00.00 bitcoind
15218 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S  0.0  4.7  0:00.00 bitcoind
15219 zevus      20   0 2740M 1513M  4992 S  0.0  4.7  0:00.00 bitcoind

Essentially the base client with a few network optimizations (re: how it used to get the vast majority of the transactions and blocks on blockchain.info).

Since I restarted it not too long ago it only has abt 600 connections now.  It usually maxes out at around 2GB of active memory ~750 connections or so.  I have it set to a max of 1000 but I haven't seen it over 750 in quite a while... obv varies a bit with the # of transactions in memory...

ed: oh, wallet is disabled, & a few other changes, like significantly less stored addresses etc.

Modifications to the conf file (and/or source code) for p2pool purposes only, i.e. limitfreerelay, changes to mintxfee, etc.  If you have enough memory on your system, there are lots of things you could do to make it run faster.

Also, a p2pool bitcoind only needs 2 connections, one to your p2pool and the other to a single node.  I used to connect my p2pool bitcoind to 5.9.24.81 only.

Turn off all free transactions if they aren't already & increase fees to .00011.  Seems like a decent compromise to me.

Getblocktemplate latency isn't a huge deal, anyway... err, well, it is if those numbers are in seconds.  Shouldn't worry about it if it's 500ms or less, though.

ed:  Oh, and you do want minblocksize (or blockminsize?  been a while) set to 0, to get rid of all the free transactions.

I already told you to do all that stuff a month or two ago, if it's the same project we're talking about, heh..  It won't have any impact on memory usage really, but you only need 2 connections on your bitcoind.