I'm shutting it down - not enough interest in neither P2Pool nor KarmaCoin.

22-2-2014 20:20 UTC: I have set all my p2pool nodes to 0% fees to help promote adoption of the P2Pool network.

Hey,

Thanks for briefly joining the pool.

That's not a mistake, but how PPLNS and thus P2Pool works.

On a normal PPS (pay per share) pool, you generate shares while you are mining the current block. When the block is found you get a % based on the number of shares you have contributed to that block. Your shares are reset and you start earning more on the next block.

With PPLNS (pay per last number of shares) you're earning shares like in PPS but those shares are weighted/averaged over a time period (24 hours in this case) to prevent pool hoppers from coming in, dominating a block and leaving.

I can go into more details if you like (or you can google for more info too) but to make a long story short- when you first join a PPLNS pool, your average starts at 0 and payouts are low and slow, but it'll increase as you continue to mine. When you've been there for the full period, it'll be the same as it would on a normal PPS pool. When you leave, whether for a short time or permanently, your average will decrease until it reaches 0 again. During that time, inversely to when you first joined, the payouts will decrease as new blocks are found until your shares expire.

Aside from the time it takes to find new blocks, you will see your last payout approximately 24 hours after you earned your last share; or rather when the last block is found within that 24 hours.

That's the Ireland one.

EU West (Ireland):
http://ireland.nilk.net:9421/
http://ireland.nilk.net:8080/
-o stratum+tcp://ireland.nilk.net:9421 -u <your karma address> -p x

Hi all,

I've been following KarmaCoin and feeling really good about it. I've happily been mining on pool.karmacoin.info without any problem but I also like the idea of p2pool as well.

I looked around and couldn't find any existing KarmaCoin p2pool implementation so I set out to create my own. I've never contributed to an open source project, so this one is my first. For what it's worth though, I'm a web developer by day.

So for anyone interested in mining KarmaCoin on p2pool, I've made my implementation available publicly, and set up several AWS EC2 nodes.

Anyone unfamiliar with P2Pool should read about it at http://p2pool.in/ for now, but if this gains interest I will write more about it specifically as well as a thorough setup guide!

The source is available here:
https://github.com/CmdrShepardsPie/p2pool

US West (California):
http://california.nilk.net:9421/
http://california.nilk.net:8080/
-o stratum+tcp://california.nilk.net:9421 -u <your karma address> -p x

US East (Virginia):
http://virginia.nilk.net:9421/
http://virginia.nilk.net:8080/
-o stratum+tcp://virginia.nilk.net:9421 -u <your karma address> -p x

EU West (Ireland):
http://ireland.nilk.net:9421/
http://ireland.nilk.net:8080/
-o stratum+tcp://ireland.nilk.net:9421 -u <your karma address> -p x

Asia Pacific (Singapore):
http://singapore.nilk.net:9421/
http://singapore.nilk.net:8080/
-o stratum+tcp://singapore.nilk.net:9421 -u <your karma address> -p x

Please do not use a currency-exchange Karma address; they do not support/do not like people mining directly to them. You should use a wallet, or find an online wallet that's compatible with mining directly.

There are 0% fees on these to promote adoption. Anyone can run a p2pool node of their own and join the network and set their own fee as they desire. Only people connecting to a fee-based node will pay that node's fees.

This is very much beta and I welcome feedback. Hopefully the coin author and/or some experienced p2pool authors/contributors can give me some feedback too!

Let me know if you have any problems or questions, I'd be happy to help.

Thanks and good karma!

Note: I'll scale the nodes up/down depending on interest and activity.

Hi all,

I've been following KarmaCoin and feeling really good about it. I've happily been mining on pool.karmacoin.info without any problem but I also like the idea of p2pool as well.

I looked around and couldn't find any existing KarmaCoin p2pool implementation so I set out to create my own. I've never contributed to an open source project, so this one is my first. For what it's worth though, I'm a web developer by day.

So for anyone interested in mining KarmaCoin on p2pool, I've made my implementation available publicly, and set up several AWS EC2 nodes.

Anyone unfamiliar with P2Pool should read about it at http://p2pool.in/ for now, but if this gains interest I will write more about it specifically as well as a thorough setup guide!

The source is available here:
https://github.com/CmdrShepardsPie/p2pool

US West (California):
http://california.nilk.net:9421/
http://california.nilk.net:8080/
-o stratum+tcp://california.nilk.net:9421 -u <your karma address> -p x

US East (Virginia):
http://virginia.nilk.net:9421/
http://virginia.nilk.net:8080/
-o stratum+tcp://virginia.nilk.net:9421 -u <your karma address> -p x

EU West (Ireland):
http://ireland.nilk.net:9421/
http://ireland.nilk.net:8080/
-o stratum+tcp://ireland.nilk.net:9421 -u <your karma address> -p x

Asia Pacific (Singapore):
http://singapore.nilk.net:9421/
http://singapore.nilk.net:8080/
-o stratum+tcp://singapore.nilk.net:9421 -u <your karma address> -p x

Please do not use a currency-exchange Karma address; they do not support/do not like people mining directly to them. You should use a wallet, or find an online wallet that's compatible with mining directly.

There are 0% fees on these to promote adoption. Anyone can run a p2pool node of their own and join the network and set their own fee as they desire. Only people connecting to a fee-based node will pay that node's fees.

This is very much beta and I welcome feedback. Hopefully the coin author and/or some experienced p2pool authors/contributors can give me some feedback too!

Let me know if you have any problems or questions, I'd be happy to help.

Thanks and good karma!

Note: I'll scale the nodes up/down depending on interest and activity.

21-2-2014 20:00 UTC: I assigned static IPs to the instances and the DNS records for the hostnames are updating. Should be accessible again in 1-48 hours. Sorry for the inconvenience.

21-2-2014 21:20 UTC: I've added two more regions, assigned all static IPs and updated DNS hostnames. The source has been updated to use the+new DNS hostnames. Everyone should be connecting to their nearest regional server via hostname, not IP. If you were running your own p2pool node, please download the latest source to get the new Bootstrap addresses. Sorry for the inconvenience, this was all in response to the popularity and in preparation for longer-term support.

22-2-2014 20:20 UTC: I have set all my p2pool nodes to 0% fees to help promote adoption of the P2Pool network.

I'm shutting it down - not enough interest in neither P2Pool nor KarmaCoin.