Not sure if it should be mandatory to use p2pool, more a case of educating the masses. I have only ever used p2pool with my crypto mining, if the coin isn't p2pool friendly, I won't mine it. Unfortunately, p2pool has outgrown python & it's crying out to be written in a faster, multithreaded code (C/++?) - the p2pool dev hasn't done much to it for the last year tbh - but hopefully it will just be a matter of time before someone has the time/incentive to do it.

Truly decentralized mining is imperative for a truly decentralised currency - p2pool is the only software that can achieve this - they are, literally, made for each other.....

I can deny it, and I will.

BAN is run by a proven scammer, admin is a proven liar, it has a multitude of fake accounts associated with it, is full of sock puppets like yourself who constantly preach the "we earn more than anyone" baloney while Mr Transparency s0br stays quiet as usual. Your carefully rehearsed duet with aurel57 above was as corny as they come & demonstrates how the whole BAN set up is and always has been a huge scam from beginning to end. The more rubbish you post, the more you argue with other pool & software devs & the more you insult & slam other pools - the more lame & pathetic you make BAN, s0br, ThePhwner & all the other sockpuppets/aliases/shills look. It's boring reading the same rubbish from you over & over again - it's almost as if you are trying to convince yourself it's true. The sooner s0br does the same to this thread as he did to his last abomination & locks it, the sooner the mining community can get back to some normal mining discussion instead of the constant BAN shill drivel polluting the mining thread.

Cease & desist for crying out loud...... 

Who just added 2Ph? 

Doh! 

Sorry, still waiting for the coffee to kick in......

Payment shows up on my wallet UI, no problem.

Even if it was possible - it's not a 0% fee if they take the Tx fees......

But like you say, it's just not possible. They seem to want to be going into direct competition with p2pool instead of promoting it. How will their version be able to work with p2pool like they say if it's using a different share chain? It can't.

Yes you do, because they "claim" to pay you 10% extra - that means they are making a loss on every block they payout on.....

Think about it.

Wrong again, & again, & again........

You don't have a clue what you are talking about dogie. Stop posting on this thread - go away.

Thanks for this link - just what I was looking for! 

Let the fun begin.......

What?!  Is he for real?  

Wrong again dogie, wrong again........

So I'm an official shill in his book now am I? Cool.

Edit: Wait, why hasn't he left me any? That's not fair - I want some.........

Oh dear. This isn't good:


Why would you mention a broken/inaccurate website for reference?

And who are you? What's with all the new accounts suddenly popping up claiming to be Bitmain employees?

@ Bitmain: Please verify these users as your employees.

EDIT: Yo jonnyB, you beat me to it......

I concur......


Sorry xlc1985, but until Bitmain confirms your identity, nobody will take much notice of you.....

I'm willing to give Bitmain the benefit of doubt ATM, but I too would like to see some clarity on the situation, as others have asked previously.

And please Bitmain, can we keep this thread free of dogie poop?

Ta 

As is 

I was quite interested in these, but the lack of responses to the many questions asked here about not just the specs, but the units being delayed, shipping times & frustrated customers who have paid & get no responses to emails etc is quite off putting & disturbing. Seems like the usual pre-order nonsense to me.

I think I'll pass until some solid answers are given & units are being delivered. Good luck.

I have exactly the same problem with one of my wallets on a Win7 64bit PC. I've tried everything mentioned in this thread to solve it - but nothing works. I believe the problem lies in the actual build of Darkwallet.exe, as CPU usage is very high when it's running/syncing, it frequently freezes & displays the (not responding) error before unlocking itself again & is generally slow & unresponsive. All my other wallets are on this PC & my Xubuntu ones and are running fine.

Shame they didn't do it 10 weeks ago.

Running with --queue 0 is proving the best setting again I'm finding - it's like a new miner! 

Bitmains new S2 firmware improves p2pool compatibility, it's still not optimal, but much more bearable with a lower DOA/reject rate than before - as well as almost a 100Gh/s increase! (in my case, one went from 880 to 980) Bitmain let me test their beta releases on my node & they seem to have got this one right - shows what a little R&D can do.....

I'm using --queue 1 atm, will test with queue 0 later.  

Just flash - it's fully automated.....

But uncheck the keep settings box.

 

Don't worry - it's safe & a good improvement over the last version, as well as fixing the security issues. I've been running it for 8 hours now without issue, very happy with it. A few tips to ensure a successful upgrade:

Uncheck the "keep settings" box when flashing - you'll have to re-enter your settings after.
After logging in to 192.168.1.99 - perform a factory rest.
It works with mdudes Antmonitor as an S3.

I highly recommend everyone with an S2 upgrade to this firmware. Thanks Bitmain (at last)  

EDIT: You can see the improvements on my p2pool node here:  http://iyftech.zapto.org:9332/static/graphs.html?Day  (I installed the firmware just before 3 am - scroll down to the S2 graph) I'm using a queue setting of 1 atm - I'll test with 0 later today. The cgminer parameter settings are now on line 60 of the /etc/init.d/cgminer.sh file for changing the queue settings for p2pool. The hash rate is higher & the DOA/reject rate is lower with p2pool & this firmware - it's a good upgrade.

Thanks to Bitmain for letting me test the betas on my node, it's good to see Bitmain still care about p2pool & it's users