[Gui-]Miner shows difficulty 1 solutions, which come every few seconds, so you can quickly see if things are working fine.

Shares in the p2pool sharechain have (currently) a difficulty around 650. These are displayed in the p2pool window, which you quoted.

Bitcoin-Blocks currently have a 1498294 difficulty.


So.. You mine away. Miner shows you all difficulty 1 blocks, just for your information. Once it finds a difficulty 650 block/solution, it is sent to your local p2pool copy. Whenever the whole p2pool network finds a Bitcoin block, you get a payment according to your portion of all found share blocks (in the last 24h).

So, expect to find share blocks around 650 times slower than the blocks your miner shows you :-)
And, expect your payments to climb in the first 24 hours, its after 24h that they kind of start to level out..

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Seems like your image isnt embedded here, the direct url does work though.
Thanks for that! I see, all miners are in one graph..
I have the global and local hashrate graphs, but with no individual miners combined in the local hashrate. And I didnt see an obvious place to put my VIP password in anyway.. Will have a look again at home.


Ah, I would love individual graphs for each miner.. Thats the last missing piece for my setup, to easily check if all miners behave well..
Any thoughts on this?

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I found no reference about how to see individual graphs for each connected miner?
P2pool tells me a "vip graph" password per miner or something..
My plan is to make one html page which embeds all graphs for the individual miners, to control everything on one glance.

A hint how to "unlock" individual graphs is enough already! :-)

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I'm glad I convinced him to use p2pool (although oh-so-horrible variance and payout), convinced him that a shell isnt evil, and convinced him that a central node isnt more likely to crash than local nodes on every miner..
He still prefers a Gui and sticks to windows..

When I have it all set up with a central monitoring point for each miner I'll see if we switch to a a more recent (shell-) miner.. ;-)

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Miner (Guiminer, poclbm) says between 280 and 290Mh/s constantly for hours now. It solved 330 diff-1 shares in the last hour, which seems about right. A 300Mh/s miner should solve 250 diff-1 shares per hour.. Miner says zero stales too..

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EDIT:

what the..
After it ran at 10% the whole day, now it gets faster and faster! Its at 200Mh/s already! Just at it finished "verifying" the sharechain? Might that be the reason? It initially downloaded the sharechain in minutes, but took at least two days to "verify" each shareblock, one after another?

EDIT2:

It stabilized at 250Mh/s. All fine here now.
Strangely, the /graphs says it was right between 250 and 300Mh/s all day? hmm..

Thank you for your help and thoughts!

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I think noone here said that forrestv doesnt deserve these 0.5%. All that shouting lately seems to be just a misunderstanding? Some people said that the 0.5% set as default is taken to attack p2pool, therefore to think about making opt-in instead of opt-out. I agree with you, kjj, that it should stay as it is, as opt-out. People who dont manage to do that would find a ton more "problems" and nag with the same questions over and over again, so I agree to "screw em".
I just get annoyed by such random, unasked use of "fuck you". We are all on the same side, not?

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..aint even mad

I am testing my central p2pool node, finally on a real linux machine :-)

Strangely, p2pool reports way-too-low hashrates. I mine with constant 290Mh/s, all day now. P2pool says:


I may or may not find a share every few hours. But it is in the two-digit Mh/s range all the time, thats what bugs me.. Cant be the dynamic difficulty adjustment, since it says "kH/s"? Lost here..

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edit: silly smilies in quote

..tempted to push the 'ignore button' on you, which would be the first time here..

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..first time ever I hear this hypothesis.
Most folks say that silver leads, gold follows. silver is more volatile with larger swings, but they shall both go the same direction.

However, historically, silver seems to be highly underrated, compared to gold.
However, bitcoin seems to be highly highly underrated compared to fiat ;-)

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Ich habe gestern mit ihr telefoniert, der Artikel kommt Dienstag (oder Mittwoch?) raus.

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A "hard fork" is, practically, just an update to a new version of p2pool. So most miners wont see any problem in that.

And, if we all switch to the new version/chain/fork at the same time, we wouldnt receive less per found block, since we all begin at zero.

New miners joining p2pool would of course cry out "I have 1gh, found three shares, the pool got a block but I only got a few cents, scam!!". If people constantly ask why they dont get paid out even though they found 100 shares [diff 1, that is], start explaining them that it takes days, weeks to have a steady income per block.. ;-)

Anyway, sounds good to me, I would do either way, 24h-averages or 7d-averages.

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I believe this might be the most vital detail of the whole project!
That way, the "bills writing folks" donate their time (and smallish money), and donators fund the system over time and keep it going. Many people would easily donate one Bitcoin to this, not many would go through writing on a hundred bills.
Also, this would be the most clever way to "recycle" already redeemed bills.
Maybe dont transfer unlimited small amounts, but a minimum of 1 Bitcent per bill?

Also, I cant find a way to reward the "bills writer", without a huge incentive to cheat. Maybe make "just" a public list how many bills each user wrote on and how many were found? Hopefully this would be incentive enough?

(Still, people might recheck their found bills regularly, to cheat the system. Which is much less of an incentive than cheating the writer-reward..)

I like where this is going!

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Good luck, MiningBuddy, I wish you it all turns out as you plan!

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Titcoin? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=64404.0

SCNR

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Blockparty? Great!
Or is it a halfing-party?
Or an instant-deflationary party?

Either way, I will try to be at any of those parties or start one here! :-)

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The address you specify via '-a' doesnt have to be in your local wallet. Its not in mine, and I receive payments fine on the offline address.

How long have you been mining with that address, did/how many shares did you find?
(I have to ask this, you know ;-) )

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I, personally, dont need anonymity, but value pseudonymity pretty high. I dont have to have all my transactions fully anon/pseudonymous, but want to have the choice to do so when I want. I have a "regular" wallet, which may be treaced back to me personally (mtgox, forummembers etc), and a "clean" wallet, which hopefully could not possibly be linked to me. I never even used that anonymous wallet for anything where it would make sense, I just want to have the option.
Same thing with exchanges, shops, whatever. I dont need to pay my electricity bill with anonymous bitcoins. I surely will always handle most of my bitcoins in a non-anonymous way. But the choice is mine, and that is one of the main gains from Bitcoin, in my opinion.

For companys, shops, exchanges to accept me anonymously, they may be forced to be anonymous too, at the moment. Maybe there will be new ways for that, having a fully registered and trusted company in russia, or north korea or iceland or christmas isles, which are able to handle anonymous customers.
But for now, thats why I love OTR and the idea behind it. Build up a reputation for your (many?) pseudonym.  All the pieces dont fit all together right now (OTR makes only sense on a p2p basis, exchanging through bankaccounts doesnt work anonymously etc), but eventually we will have working, trusted anonymous services.

We will as well have anonymous scamming services. Thats why we need to keep our eyes open, and investigate on our own. That doesnt mean I need to find out the real name of XY, but could mean to verify published numbers, follow transactions et cetera. If something smells fishy let others know.

In short: I prefer anonymous services over non-anonymous services. Better yet pseudonymous approaches. Build up trust, I dont make a difference if I trust a name or a nickname. This may work, and will only work with a lot of transparency. It will be a lot of work and pain, constantly, with incidents now and then. And its worth it.

Matthew, thank you for your constant, hard and valuable work you do. I wonder how much sleep you get! :-)
If all this draws too much energy from you, change it.

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I love this project!
I am sure we need to get China, Africa and the like onboard for Bitcoin to unfold its full potential.
This is a brilliant idea to step in there!

/subscribing

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Glad to see you must be finished with paying back the money you owe to your ex-users. I cant possibly explain how you could have found the time to make a vid, music and animations included.

..Who closed the original thread, anyway? BS or mods?

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[p2pcoin - a self contained p2pool node - boots from CD, USB or network]

Definitely true, and valuable work for all miners!
The question is, how many % of the total network is mining on dedicated hardware? The new members surely will simply use their regular, only computer, which happens to have a fat gpu for gaming. I dont expect many of them to boot a linux every time they want to mine, and to not mine when they use their computer for other stuff.

Still, I love the linux-bitcoin-remixes, staying far away from M$ for many years now!

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