Sadly I have shutdown my 'mining corporation' today. The lack of hashing power in p2pool nowaydays and the long times to hit a block lately because of that, have made it unprofitable to such a degree that it has become unsustainable. The 3 day limit on shares is just too low when finding a block takes about a month. p2pool has been a fine place to be over the years but unless something drastically changes, I won't power on my miners again. Will keep reading though

May the chain be with you.

Alfi

Good stuff!

Could someone please throw some extra hashpower into p2pool? We could certainly use it, as the 3 day valid share period is way too less when not finding any block in 16 days... 

Pfff, time for a bit of luck. P2Pool could do with some more hashing power.

Rewards are still payed out to this pool, see https://blockchain.info/address/1NJJgrGhU7rTFCgD9ZbfktKoyj4vFHe4yB

So, not excluded from rewards....

Questions,

On the p2pool.in site can be read: "And then, at 95%, users that have not upgraded will be excluded. If non-upgraded users aren't excluded before BIP65 takes effect, P2Pool users will be subject to paying other users for invalid work - effectively a withholding attack."

Since this pool http://61.219.120.109:9332 is still running a version < 15 with quite a high hash rate (8% of the p2pool total) I would expect it to be excluded from p2pool as stated, but appearantly it hasn't.

My question is, is this affecting other p2pool users as stated above now, and, what can be done about it? Clearly the pool owner is not responding to email and not responding on a public message in the blockchain.

Would like to hear your thoughts on this.

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Regards,

Theo

Dropped an email to the contact address on the pool page.

Regards,

Theo