The first payout will have been from the first block.  The second block hasn't matured yet, so you won't have received anything from it.

When we find a block and it matures.

That's not accurate at all.

He has two interested parties.  He never said it wasn't shutting down, and he never said he found a buyer. 

So, you're actually trying to ask something you didn't ask in the first place?  How the f**k are we supposed to know what you're actually asking when you didn't ask it?   

Yep, best thing to run on an Apple is Windows 8.1.  10.6 was the last decent OSX.

Don't feel bad, the numpty did the same to Eligius I believe.

Yeah, pool found a block about 2 minutes after I moved my miner back to Eligius to make up that last 0.0001BTC to get a payout (wish they'd stop moving the goalposts).  

Ah well, will be back in less than a hour...

I've got a used Antminer S3, and it's been perfect.  I also have a load of old Avalon-based boards that were bought used, and they were fine until I turned them off due to inefficiency.

Don't use the script?    There's a few good howto guides on here that show you how to install p2pool, those along with a bit of Googling should do it.  A linux noob like me got it working in less than an hour (including time to install linux), so it's not difficult.

Heh, Bitcoin version of the ancient "Nigerian Prince" scam, which has been going long before the internet existed.

Install pool software on a server, connect it to internet, advertise, lose all your free time.

So, exactly like BFL then?

Both the Jalapenos I got from BFL had dusty internals.  Unless they did their "24 hour soak test" in a cement factory, there's no way they got that dusty without running for months.

Ubuntu sucks big hairy goat balls.  Go for Debian - it's the OS Ubuntu used to be before they broke it.

I can't help think that you're losing efficiency by stepping up the voltage.  Transformers aren't very efficient, as quite a bit of power is lost due to heat.

Are your Antminers internal?  IE are they on the same LAN as your p2pool?  If they are, you should be using the internal IP, not the external, because many routers don't do local loopback.

I just got a S3+ off eBay for £200.  It's basically unused.  I'm running it to replace a clutter of older Avalon-based ASIC boards that drank 1kW for about 180GH. 

The S3+ is doing a shade under 500GH with 360W at the wall.  I'm very happy to let the S3+ sit and churn away until it pops, especially when difficulty is sitting still.  I'm in Bitcoin for the long game - I like many have wasted hundreds of BTC buying pointless ASICs, and the only ones that turned a high profit were the Mk1 ASICMiner Blades.  Now I'm just happy to sit and churn away and hope BTC is worth a lot more in 5-10 years time.

Pentium G2358 and overclock the snot out of it.   Two Haswell cores running at 3.7GHz or more should be able to do it, surely?

So, the E8400 (2x3GHz) I took out of the machine would have been better than the Q6700 (4x2.66GHz) I put in.  Humph.  I forgot about the whole single threadedness of p2pool.

Looking forward to someone rewriting p2pool, I was running it earlier on a Q6700, and was getting terrible latency - one core was flat out.   Single threaded .exe sucks.  A Core2Quad 2.66GHz with 6GB RAM should be able to totally maul p2pool.

MinePeon and use it's proxy setting.  Though a Pi might poop it's pants trying to deal with too many connections.

You could run bfgminer on a low powered PC (Celeron NUC or the likes) and use it's proxy.