Ugh, please no PPS... I went to P2Pool in the first place to get away from that (except for 1 backup pool)

-- Smoov

It may not have been intended that way, but your forum has become a victim of its own success, and has ended up being the primary central point for discussing crypto-currencies of all kinds, not just bitcoin.

bitcointalk.org links are what I see most of the time in other places about bitcoin, namecoin, devcoin, litecoin, etc etc, in far far greater numbers than any other discussion links combined.

Sorry guys, but that's just the way it worked out. If you don't want other crypto-currency discussion on your forum, then I would suggest you ban all other discussion of other alt-chains that are not directly involving bitcoin.

>shrugs<

-- Smoov

Namecoin and Devcoin aren't active?

Ok, well, that still isn't reason not to do it. Looking through this sub-forum, there are many threads for different alt chains, and if they were all grouped in their own subforums from the beginning, they wouldn't all be jumbled together now.

More about future usage, and subforums aren't that much work to set up, as far as cost/benefit goes.

-- Smoov

Agreed.

-- Smoov

quit being an ass, yer just making yourself look small.

-- Smoov

Nice...

although, I only meant the circles with the linking lines between them in the graphical representation part.

maybe even the lines sticking out of the globe display? ^.^

(ok, I'm done now )

-- Smoov

Of course we're aware of it. Painfully.

In fact, that is the very reason we suggest to give each of the alt-crypto's their own sub-forum, because it is out of control now.

Doing so will have no impact at all on the goal to "keep this crap out of Bitcoin Discussion", and since the alt-crypto's are obviously a popular part of the whole discussion, treating them (and those of us who participate on their topics and experiments) like trash, does the community a disservice.

-- Smoov

ps> oh... and btw... watch your tone...

perhaps keep this section for more general alt-crypto conversation, with sub-sections for each type of established coin?

Could it just have been the site doing 5/4 rounding to 2 decimal places? If that was the case, then both of those results would have been correct to the displayed 2-decimal place number.

If the website just trims off the excess tho, then yeah, discrepancy.

-- Smoov

I tend to favor going by age than by an absolute count. You get a busy day and you could have items fall off the bottom minutes after being posted.

Nothing wrong with a long list at the bottom, most recent at the top, that's what we got scroll-bars for With a "full list" link at the bottom, or even have that link send you a CSV file with the history instead.

An idea that just popped into my head, but maybe even, if you wanted to go that far, use a plugin like block-explorer uses, so we can view and travel the tier tree, who we're linked to, who is linked to us, etc.

Since we're not using names anyways, and we all have a random code, and we can all use a pseudo-random address, not much of an anonymity concern there.

-- Smoov

Yeah, I thought of that after I posted, about the email notifications.

Showing the referral code being claimed, in the transaction/event list would be good, but 48 hours seems still a quick expire on it. It wouldn't get you through a weekend, much less a long holiday one.

Would it be a problem to show the past month's activity? Or, at least 14 days? That would cover, say, a week's vacation/trip somewhere, plus a few days before/after for the weekends.

-- Smoov

Hopefully this will be sustainable for a while...

I've been struggling to find a way to increase my own hashing power, this will at least put my existing coinage to work in the meantime.

-- Smoov

edit: One suggestion I have in mind, if it isn't already implemented, is an email notification when one of our referral codes get used, so we can update our available list quickly.

Your command line could get too long if you're going to merge-mine a lot of daemons, so you could also just include "@c:\usr\bin\p2pool\p2poolBTC.conf" as your command-line option, and put all of your flags in that file instead.

The filename could be any name, doesn't have to be that.

-- Smoov

Yes, just add another --merged with another URL for the daemon.

You just have to make sure the block chains are compatable.

BTC and LTC for example, aren't compatable.

BTC, NMC, GG(now dead), are compatable, as well as a few others.

(for compatability, basically means, the same miner works for both)

-- Smoov

ok, well, first off, in your P2Pool logs, if you are seeing lines like
2012-05-11 05:36:14.828000 > Error while calling merged getauxblock:
2012-05-11 05:36:14.831000 > Traceback (most recent call last):
2012-05-11 05:36:14.833000 > Failure: twisted.internet.error.ConnectionRefusedError: Connection was refused by other side: 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refuse
d it..
then P2Pool isn't communicating with one of your daemons. Won't say which one, but this comes up when P2Pool doesn't find a daemon at the URL you supplied, nothing is answering the port.

Also, if NMC is the only one you're merge mining with, and you're seeing "Got new merged mining work!" messages, then you should be in good shape.

As for the option above, printtoconsole, I noticed different daemons giving more or less info than bitcoind does, and it looks like with that set, it doesn't give enough, which was my bad for not checking that specific daemon. Looking with the '-debug' command line option enabled, I'm not seeing anything obvious from the namecoind end showing P2P's communication, so I wasn't helpful there, but the P2P messages I've mentioned in this reply should help out.

-- Smoov

...but it has to be you finding the BTC block, not the pool.

Try adding this to your namecoin.conf file: printtoconsole=1

Then you should be able to see P2Pool polling namecoind. Also, if P2Pool wasn't able to communicate with namecoind, you'd see a lot of error messages on the P2Pool end.

I don't know if namecoin has a testnet set up, but try switching to that for a little while too. It might have a much lower difficulty to test with.

-- Smoov

Please define what qualifies as being 'inactive'?

Like... a couple months? a week? a long holiday weekend? etc

-- Smoov

Oh! hey, cool!

Thanks, the more the merrier XD

-- Smoov

Alright, I can bring the noose and a chair, but someone is gonna have to bring the tree...

-- Smoov

Also have to keep in mind, that blocks and shares don't propogate instantly, being a decentralized network.

When one of us finds a block, it is relayed to the network more like ripples on a pond. Your P2P tells at least 10 friends, and their P2P's tell at least 10 friends, and so on and so on. Depending on how many nodes there are, it could take a long time (relatively speaking) for every node to get the new block.

If another node also solves a block before the first block's ripple reaches it, it sends out its own ripples, and eventually those ripples meet and try and cancel each other out, like the earlier poster saw with it going back and forth, until the stronger ripple has dissapated the weaker ripple, resulting in the orphan.

-- Smoov