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TheSeven's PPCoin Pool I'm pleased to finally announce the official launch of my new PPCoin pool! The web site is mostly finished now, just some more explanations still missing. Features: Stratum No registration! 2% fee ESMPPS reward model (low variance) PPLNS reward model (if you like that better) Optional: payout after only 12 confirmations Dynamically adjusting difficulty All new pool server software JSONRPC API for statistics You can find the pool at:  http://theseven.bounceme.net/~theseven/pool/

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Modular Python Bitcoin Miner

The Modular Python Bitcoin Miner is a very flexible mining software written in Python, aiming to unify the frontend of FPGA-based mining hardware.

Features

• Runs on Python 2.6+ / 3.0+
• Very flexible, to allow for all kinds of weird mining hardware and future mining pool protocols
• Multi-pool support (load balancing or failover, configurable)
• Multi-worker support
• Worker hotplug support
• Web interface
• All UI functions available through JSON API
• Can easily handle clusters of tens of gigahashes, dependinding on the board type

Supported devices

• Simple RS232-based interface, as a starting point for interface developers
• X6500 FPGA mining board (no need for D2XX driver!)
• Icarus board
• ZTEX boards
• Butterfly Labs (BFL) BitFORCE Single
• ...more to follow!
• Feel free to implement your own one!
• Board vendors: Contact TheSeven with an offer (e.g. a board for testing) if you want your board to be added!

Screenshots



News

• 2012-03-26: v0.1.0beta released
• 2012-03-22: Testing branch almost ready to be released for production use
• 2012-03-21: Added ztex board support to testing branch
• 2012-02-09: Added experimental support for Icarus board
• 2012-02-06: Initial public beta release (v0.0.4beta)

Documentation / Howtos

• Coming soon...

Download / Source code

• https://github.com/TheSeven/Modular-Python-Bitcoin-Miner
• Packaged releases:
  
  • Hosted on Wuala:
    
    • mpbm-v0.1.0beta.zip (Core package, platform independent)
    • windows-runtime-v0.1.0beta.zip (If you don't want to install Python on Windows)
  • Hosted on MediaFire:
    
    • mpbm-v0.1.0beta.zip (Core package, platform independent)
    • windows-runtime-v0.1.0beta.zip (If you don't want to install Python on Windows)

IRC channel

• #mpbm on irc.freenode.net

Donations

• Donations to 13NuRX6rdE4Do4vddzhfKK7FqmGSTMcjYh are gratefully accepted
• Or, even better, donate a small share of your mining power to the MPBM authors by leaving the demo pool entries in the default configuration file enabled

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I'm looking for a mining client which meets the following criteria:

• Open source
• Allows easy integration of new mining methods (FPGA in my case)
• Runs on Linux, and ideally on Windows as well
• Written in a sane programming language, preferably Python
• Supports long polling
• Supports falling back to another pool in case of outages, without first waiting for the pool to repond for several minutes
• Pushpool support would be a plus

Which software would you suggest?

If this can't be achieved with a single piece of software, I'd consider a stack of a "dumb" mining software and a clever proxy for it as well.