Here's a good thread that will help explain:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1085800.0

Sorted, my dns were playing up....

Is the network down?   

OK, I think I get 500 free sms p/m so I should be fine cos I hardly ever use it. Do you get the sms when the payment is sent to the address - or when it arrives in the wallet? I ask because my receiving wallet is not on 24/7, so it would be handy if the sms was sent when the payment is sent.....

This is cool - is there a charge for the sms?

Nice work domob. If anyone has a list of nodes running the "new" client, I will run a "temp" node to help through the transition 

Yeah - let's hope it's a while before we get one of those again. Good to see that the hash rate & miners kept at it though without bailing when luck sucks 

These are not "your" shares - they are shares that are yet to be verified by your node on the p2pool share chain. In order for your node to catch up with verifying the shares in the share chain, you should leave your node running - it will take some time.

Questions about p2pool should ideally be posted in the p2pool thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.0

..where they will be answered quicker by someone who is experienced with p2pool 

Ah! - that's more like it. Thanks for those stats & putting my concerns at rest cassini - phew!  

"Money" as we know it will become digitalised - it's inevitable. I would rather it be a decentralized system instead of the current setup.

Bitcoin will become the new "money" & the sooner the better.

Update on this - I just got the stats through from cassini on the NMC thread - the last NMC block mined by p2pool was exactly 3 months ago, which pretty much matches up with what I thought:

https://forum.namecoin.info/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2371&p=15993#p15993

I think we need to look a little deeper into the namecoin-core code to try & find the cause - only I don't have a clue where to start 

Do NOT use p2pool.info - it hasn't worked properly for at least 7 months.

Use   http://minefast.coincadence.com/p2pool-stats.php

Or even more accurately "Does anyone have a best share higher than the current NMC difficulty AND that share did not mine a block?"

I would say probably, yes. But without seeing everyones log it's hard to say. I'm pretty sure that in the months that p2pool users have been using the namecoin-core client for merge mining with p2pool - somebody would have found a valid share & been paid for it......I'd love to hear from that person 

Hi kano,

Did you receive your S7 yet - or are you still waiting like the rest of us? 

It means your node is still verifying shares - it can take a while if you have recently downloaded the sharechain.

Regarding NMC merge mining - I have posted about my concerns in the NMC forum:

https://forum.namecoin.info/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2371&p=15989#p15989

Hopefully domob or another dev will look into it. In the meantime, if anyone does actually find an NMC block - please report it, thanks.

I'm not so sure, can you confirm you found a block merge mining with the core client & p2pool?


Yes, I'm aware of that.


There have been many changes to auxpow, see the github page:    https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin-core/tree/auxpow

Again, I'm not saying that there is definitely a problem with merge mining NMC with p2pool, I just want to confirm that there isn't a problem with it, & until someone can report finding a block while merge mining NMC there simply isn't any proof. I find it strange that since the implementation of namecoin-core, nobody has found one. I think it's just too much of a coincidence & want to make sure.

As I said earlier:


...yet everyone assumed it was working fine then also, only it wasn't. If we missed something before, we could quite easily have missed something else, either in the NMC code or p2pool (but I suspect NMC tbh, as all my other merge mined coins are working normally).

Yeah, I found a few NMC blocks myself prior to the code change to the newer core client, but nothing since then, and from what I can see, neither has anyone else. I'm not saying there is definitely a problem with the core client & p2pool - but think it's worth looking into, just in case.

P2pool hash rate has always been pretty erratic, especially with the luck hunters running around in circles.....


Well, as nobody has reported finding any NMC blocks merge mining with the new core client, I'm beginning to think that there is still a problem with the code somewhere that's specific to p2pool, as other centralized pools seem to work fine with it. I'll pop over to the NMC forum & ask domob to maybe have a look into it, just in case.

If they're using Linux - for QT4 it's:


For QT5 it's:


Not sure why an exchange is using QT though, most exchanges use the daemon only. To compile without the GUI they should use:

B-Eleven - a pre-order cloud mining contract using yet to be made super duper efficient chips.......

No thanks