All valid points, & exactly the reasons I won't use Eligius or anything else even slightly connected with Luke-Jr. After reading up some, I chose p2pool - it's decentralised nature really appealed to me. The Bitcoin mining scene will be worse off without the Guild - thank you eleuthria for being an upstanding & trustworthy member of the mining community - in these times of badly coded scam pools - you will be sorely missed. |
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Mastercard are feeling the Bitcoin heat, PayPal & Visa will follow shortly, if they aren't already. All shall fail, all shall fall. All hail decentralized people powered Bitcoin!!  |
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Thank you -ck & kano for chiming in, your experience & knowledge is greatly appreciated  I've read a lot about this subject throughout the thread, it seems to me that bitmain are actually working against p2pool, despite their claims in their pool thread that they actively support it: We support p2pool protocol
.....and has been significantly developed during the development of Antpool.
This is simply not true. Shouldn't forum rules/admins require them to change this statement? Doing so would also save a lot of confusion for new users of p2pool who wonder why they can't get the most out of their bitmain hardware while using p2pool. They seem to be trying to transfer p2pools unique decentralised nature for their own marketing needs - despite being an obviously centralised pool. As bitmain refuse to fix their firmware (or more likely - they're unable/don't know how to), I'd be more than willing to chip in towards a bounty for a revised & fully functional S5 firmware for p2pool - if kano/-ck would be willing? The S5's are still being sold, & will remain workable for a while yet I think, so it would certainly boost p2pools attractiveness to new users if they could simply connect & mine like any other pool. What do you think? Tak. |
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Agreed. Not all S5's are OC'able to the same extent, some don't like it at all. 425 is very OC'd - I would restart it at standard settings & slowly work your way up until you notice a failure, then back it up a notch. You'll find it will be not only more efficient, but less hassle also.
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I'm no Linux freak, yet I had no problem setting up my own node with merge mining, it's not hard at all. All that is required is plenty of reading & some common sense. If a noob user like me can do it - anyone can. Let's not make it sound harder than it really is.
As for the bitmain "support" troll, his post history on p2pool (the bitmain bodged version) tells it's own story.
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The typical reasons are inconsistent earnings due to low network %, high pings, higher complexity, lower performance / earnings. P2Pool is a hard sell towards new users.
What complete & utter rubbish! EDIT: I see now......  bitmain "support" guy  Please don't post about subjects you know nothing about. |
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Thought I'd add some p2pool stats, seeing as you've forgotten to mention it in your "observations"  P2pool 30 day luck: 127.35%Source: http://minefast.coincadence.com/p2pool-stats.phpThis is not including payments from the 10 extra merge-mined coins of course Tak. |
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P2pool works fine with Bitcoind/qt. Can you provide more info?
ie: What OS/distro?
Do you have all the required dependences?
Have you built from source or using pre-compiled binaries?
What hardware are you using?
etc......
Tak.
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I was told by Bitmain support non of the Bitmain S Series are designed to work with P2P due the the work reset process of P2P.
Did they now? Can you yell me who told you this at bitmain? I'm afraid bitmain & their "support" staff are pretty clueless when it comes to p2pool, as their attempted clone of it clearly shows. I wouldn't take any notice of him/them. Getting a slightly lower hash rate is normal with p2pool, it's always been like this I believe. If your units are locking up, try lowering the OC settings - you're probably working them too hard. |
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Don't close. Just....don't  |
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I am running the April 2015 firmware.
All my S5's are running the original firmware, kano's cgminer fix & a queue setting of 1 - all run fine with p2pool. I always avoid bitmain firmware upgrades as they seem to create more problems than they fix It's the old saying: "If it ain't broke......" Is anyone using the Avalon 4.1's with p2pool? I'm interested in how they perform........ Tak. |
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The Prodigal Son has returned!
Absolutely! Hopefully this will be the start of a new era of communication with p2pool users on this forum Forrestv - will there be any other improvements/fixes/additions to the new p2pool release? Thanks, & welcome back |
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A Union......  You gonna go on strike? |
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Somehow I think P2Pool dying out. The network performance is ridiculous, the last visitors on my Node passed weeks ago. I think I switch my node down.
 Don't you use your own node then? The last couple of weeks have been excellent for p2pool - way above average. |
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Serious question: What would it take to get you and CK to merge your pool with P2Pool, and focus on it's scalability problems? We could sure use your expertise I've seen posts by others on this thread regarding the scalability thing - to me this is the biggest issue with p2pool. Has anyone actually conversed with the dev (if he's still around) to see if he has any ideas/solutions? Was a bounty ever organised with regard to finding a dev who could find a solution? |
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I finally managed to compile GeistGeld, for the hell of it, does anyone have any active nodes for it? There is also Fusioncoin that can be merge mined - it's a bit dead, but not as dead as others mentioned in the OP & the blockchain is still active: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=512149.0Crowncoin was also looking for a dev to help implement merge mining, but the dev seems to have gone AWOL, although the website & blockchain seem healthy & trading can still be done on C-CEX: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=815487.0It would be nice to see a dev step in & maybe resurrect these coins with updated code, with BTC difficulty going up & price staying low, merge mining is an excellent way to increase ones mining earnings & help stabilise other less used crypto coins. |
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Those of you who are having no problems with the daemon:
Are you using it with p2pool?
What distro are you running it on?
Thanks.
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Hi markm, According to the git repo, it uses bdb 4.7 & I can't find a link for that on trusty. I tried using the --with-incompatible-bdb flag with v4.8, but it still failed with the same error.....all my other wallets compile with v4.8 no problem. Any chance you could upload a copy of yours? sil vous plais? with cream on top? Worked it out, finally..... Lots of stuff in that default geist.conf file.......if anyone has any addnodes - I'd be grateful |
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Thank you, worked.
Thank kano It's not persistent - you'll have to do the same after every reboot. Also, change your queue setting to 1 or 0 - whatever works best for you. There's a custom firmware mentioned a few pages back that does all this for you & is persistent - might be better for you. |
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I am using antminer s5 interface and pointing miner to the ip.
Use kano's cgminer replacement - bitmain's cgminer is borked for p2pool: SSH into your S5 as root then copy/paste: cd /tmp
wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/antminer/s5/4.9.0-150105/cgminer
chmod +x cgminer
mv /usr/bin/cgminer /usr/bin/cgminer.bak
cp cgminer /usr/bin
/etc/init.d/cgminer.sh restart Then press enter. I cannot use my IP to mine, don't know why. I use its network IP and seems to work fine (at lower hashrate). Is that ok?
You should be able to use your LAN IP - is your node on your network or on your PC? Can someone take any fees or possibly steal hashrate from me if I use p2pool?
You can see if a node is charging you a fee by adding "/fee" at the end of the node address. It's impossible for anyone to steal your hash if you use your own node. Can I merge mine on all merged mining possible coins? At the same time? On windows?
Yes. |
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