[1500 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool

[windpath]

Looking for a knowledgeable volunteer

P2Pool.org is coming along well, however the amount of copy that the basic site needs has been a little overwhelming.

Once the initial site is complete I plan to put it up on Github so all can contribute, and in the interim I'm looking for someone to help out with the Community & Resources section.

It will contain links to all things P2Pool; original source, useful forks, front-ends, node locators, statistics, and most importantly good set-up/tuning tutorials for various OSs and coins.

Anyone feel like compiling a text list of titles and links by categories?

Launch is set for next Thursday, would need the list by Tuesday the 16th at the latest.

No HTML or other formatting required, just looking for someone to help out with the data collection.

It does not need to be perfect as we can add/modify latter, it should be a solid start on a comprehensive list of quality P2Pool resources.

If more then 1 volunteer wants to help out we could set up a public Google doc or similar for collaboration.

Author attribution available on the page if desired.

Let me know...

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[jonnybravo0311]

Looking for a knowledgeable volunteer

P2Pool.org is coming along well, however the amount of copy that the basic site needs has been a little overwhelming.

Once the initial site is complete I plan to put it up on Github so all can contribute, and in the interim I'm looking for someone to help out with the Community & Resources section.

It will contain links to all things P2Pool; original source, useful forks, front-ends, node locators, statistics, and most importantly good set-up/tuning tutorials for various OSs and coins.

Anyone feel like compiling a text list of titles and links by categories?

Launch is set for next Thursday, would need the list by Tuesday the 16th at the latest.

No HTML or other formatting required, just looking for someone to help out with the data collection.

It does not need to be perfect as we can add/modify latter, it should be a solid start on a comprehensive list of quality P2Pool resources.

If more then 1 volunteer wants to help out we could set up a public Google doc or similar for collaboration.

Author attribution available on the page if desired.

Let me know...

Ian (windpath)

Here's a start...

Info
Official p2pool site: http://p2pool.in
This thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.0
P2Pool wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool
Setting up merged-mining (Ubuntu): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=651819.0
Single script setup of p2pool node with all supported merge-mined coins: http://bitcoin.kyros.info
Original p2pool merge mining setup thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62842.0
Comparison of p2pool, Eligius and BTCGuild: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=416933.0
Relay Node: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=766190.0

Source Code
Forrest's original p2pool source: https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool
Rav3n's fork (lots of alt coins): https://github.com/Rav3nPL/p2pool-rav
Roy7's vardiff patch: https://github.com/roy7/p2pool/commit/71121fa79016db7679ca0dcbf4328d9c9d51c97d
Matt Corallo's Relay Node: https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/RelayNode
Matt's fork of p2pool with relay node built in: https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/p2pool

Front Ends
Extended Front End: https://github.com/hardcpp/P2PoolExtendedFrontEnd
Justino's "Punchy" Front End: https://github.com/justino/p2pool-ui-punchy
roy7's p2pool node status: https://github.com/roy7/p2pool-node-status
Norgan's: https://github.com/norgan/p2pool_fancy_front_end

Other
HunterBunter's web-based donation page: http://blisterpool.com/p2pdonate
Node finder: http://p2pool-nodes.info
Historical p2pool mining info (pretty inaccurate): http://p2pool.info

[PatMan]

Looking at http://p2pool-nodes.info it's interesting to note that 8 out of 10 of the top 10 nodes by hash rate are Chinese, so p2pool's recent success owes a lot to our Chinese friends I think. Also, the biggest node, which is in the US (Hash The Planet), is the only one out of all 10 that is charging a fee - a big one too - 2%!

Make of that what you will......

[zvs]

Looking at http://p2pool-nodes.info it's interesting to note that 8 out of 10 of the top 10 nodes by hash rate are Chinese, so p2pool's recent success owes a lot to our Chinese friends I think. Also, the biggest node, which is in the US (Hash The Planet), is the only one out of all 10 that is charging a fee - a big one too - 2%!

Make of that what you will......

Are they taking the namecoins, ixcoins, and w/e else as well?  lol

[IYFTech]

Whoever it is that is using my node (http://iyftech.zapto.org:9332) with payment address 1MhJ3N8szGSQEMLiyf2C4hgkWtpK3vZfCp - please check your settings - 50% of your work is DOA!!

PM me if you need any help - before I ban your IP  

[windpath]

...links to all things P2Pool; original source, useful forks, front-ends, node locators, statistics, and most importantly good set-up/tuning tutorials for various OSs and coins.

Here's a start...

Info
Official p2pool site: http://p2pool.in
This thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.0
P2Pool wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool
Setting up merged-mining (Ubuntu): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=651819.0
Single script setup of p2pool node with all supported merge-mined coins: http://bitcoin.kyros.info
Original p2pool merge mining setup thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62842.0
Comparison of p2pool, Eligius and BTCGuild: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=416933.0
Relay Node: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=766190.0

Source Code
Forrest's original p2pool source: https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool
Rav3n's fork (lots of alt coins): https://github.com/Rav3nPL/p2pool-rav
Roy7's vardiff patch: https://github.com/roy7/p2pool/commit/71121fa79016db7679ca0dcbf4328d9c9d51c97d
Matt Corallo's Relay Node: https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/RelayNode
Matt's fork of p2pool with relay node built in: https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/p2pool

Front Ends
Extended Front End: https://github.com/hardcpp/P2PoolExtendedFrontEnd
Justino's "Punchy" Front End: https://github.com/justino/p2pool-ui-punchy
roy7's p2pool node status: https://github.com/roy7/p2pool-node-status
Norgan's: https://github.com/norgan/p2pool_fancy_front_end

Other
HunterBunter's web-based donation page: http://blisterpool.com/p2pdonate
Node finder: http://p2pool-nodes.info
Historical p2pool mining info (pretty inaccurate): http://p2pool.info

Thanks Jonny, great start!

[jonnybravo0311]

...links to all things P2Pool; original source, useful forks, front-ends, node locators, statistics, and most importantly good set-up/tuning tutorials for various OSs and coins.

Here's a start...

Info
Official p2pool site: http://p2pool.in
This thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.0
P2Pool wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool
Setting up merged-mining (Ubuntu): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=651819.0
Single script setup of p2pool node with all supported merge-mined coins: http://bitcoin.kyros.info
Original p2pool merge mining setup thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62842.0
Comparison of p2pool, Eligius and BTCGuild: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=416933.0
Relay Node: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=766190.0

Source Code
Forrest's original p2pool source: https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool
Rav3n's fork (lots of alt coins): https://github.com/Rav3nPL/p2pool-rav
Roy7's vardiff patch: https://github.com/roy7/p2pool/commit/71121fa79016db7679ca0dcbf4328d9c9d51c97d
Matt Corallo's Relay Node: https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/RelayNode
Matt's fork of p2pool with relay node built in: https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/p2pool

Front Ends
Extended Front End: https://github.com/hardcpp/P2PoolExtendedFrontEnd
Justino's "Punchy" Front End: https://github.com/justino/p2pool-ui-punchy
roy7's p2pool node status: https://github.com/roy7/p2pool-node-status
Norgan's: https://github.com/norgan/p2pool_fancy_front_end

Other
HunterBunter's web-based donation page: http://blisterpool.com/p2pdonate
Node finder: http://p2pool-nodes.info
Historical p2pool mining info (pretty inaccurate): http://p2pool.info

Thanks Jonny, great start!

No problem.  Additionally, I wrote a guide on how to get p2pool up and running on a Mac natively.  It's geared towards using MacPorts, but you can substitute HomeBrew if you prefer.  Here's the BTC one:

1. Download Bitcoin-Qt and install (http://www.bitcoin.org)
1.1 Let it sync either directly from the network, or by downloading the latest bootstrap.dat torrent
2. Open a terminal window and using your favorite editor like vi or nano, create ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/bitcoin.conf and enter the following (please, please, PLEASE do NOT use the values I put in for the user and password. Make up your own):

server=1
rpcuser=SOMEUSER
rpcpassword=SOMEREALLYGOODPASSWORD

3. Install Xcode and Xcode command line developer tools
4. Install MacPorts and do steps 4.1 - 4.5 in a terminal window
4.1 sudo port selfupdate
4.2 sudo port install python27
4.3 sudo port install py-twisted
4.4 sudo port install py-argparse
4.5 sudo port select --set python python27
5. Get the p2pool software. Again using your terminal window go with either step 5.1 or step 5.2.
5.1 For just Bitcoin/Litecoin: git clone https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool.git
5.2 If you plan on setting up a node for other alt coins, get Rav3n's fork of the p2pool code: git https://https://github.com/Rav3nPL/p2pool-rav
6. Once your Bitcoin-Qt client has finished synchronizing, restart it so it will take your bitcoin.conf file into account.
7. In your terminal window, change directory to p2pool, or p2pool-rav depending on which you chose. For example, on my system, it's located at ~/Mining/p2pool or ~/Mining/p2pool-rav
8. Run p2pool node software (this is for Bitcoin): ./run_p2pool.py SOMEUSER SOMEREALLYGOODPASSWORD

That's it. You should now be running a local P2Pool node.

Also, here's the command to execute in the terminal to start p2pool, connect to some nodes and merge mine some coins (along with explanations of each command):

Code:

nohup ./run_p2pool.py -n 54.235.94.19:9333 -n 185.24.249.15:9333 -n 104.131.12.128:9333 --give-author 0 -f 0 --merged http://NMCuser:NMCPassword@10.0.1.14:7333 --merged http://IXCuser:IXCPassword@10.0.1.14:8338 --merged http://DVCuser:DVCPassword@10.0.1.14:53333 --merged http://FSCuser:FSCPassword@10.0.1.14:22222 --merged http://I0Cuser:I0CPassword@10.0.1.14:13333 -a SOMEFEEADDRESS BTCUser BTCPassword > /dev/null 2>&1 &

nohup - no hangup. Keep the process running even when you shut down the terminal window.
run_p2pool.py - start the p2pool node
--give-author - a percentage to donate to the author of the p2pool software. If you do not pass this argument, the software will by default donate 1%.
--merged - merge mine with the following coin
http://USER:PASSWORD@IP:PORT - the username, password, IP address and rpcport of the coin you're merged mining
-a - instead of paying to the default wallet, pay fees here
SOMEFEEADDRESS - the address to pay to
-n - connect to this p2pool node
http://IP:PORT - the p2pool node to connect to
-f - charge users this fee percentage to mine on your node (0 - 100)
BTCUser - the user specified in bitcoin.conf
BTCpassword - the password specified in bitcoin.conf
> /dev/null - write standard console output the trash
2>&1 - write error console to the same place you're writing standard console (trashed)
& - run the process in the background

[Xeil]

I have a problem, like all works, only 3 -6 days to fly either the p2pool, or bitcoind (can be both), and then after restarting the bitcoin-qt (bitcoind not start) writes that the database is damaged and offers to rebuild that very long . get out of the situation that vostonavlivayu database from backups.Tried to transfer the program's base themselves on another hard drive - had no effect. Prboval git version p2pool - the same (((A pattern is repeated 4 times already. What could be the problem? Sorry for the bad english.

[zvs]

I have a problem, like all works, only 3 -6 days to fly either the p2pool, or bitcoind (can be both), and then after restarting the bitcoin-qt (bitcoind not start) writes that the database is damaged and offers to rebuild that very long . get out of the situation that vostonavlivayu database from backups.Tried to transfer the program's base themselves on another hard drive - had no effect. Prboval git version p2pool - the same (((A pattern is repeated 4 times already. What could be the problem? Sorry for the bad english.

Did you try downloading the latest version of bitcoin?  There was some headers only version on the git for a while that would cause it to do that every time you reloaded, I think

if that's not it, you should probably run a nice, long memtest86.  well, scan the HDD for errors first

p2pool wouldn't be causing it, would have to be related to the bitcoin client

[Xeil]

I have a problem, like all works, only 3 -6 days to fly either the p2pool, or bitcoind (can be both), and then after restarting the bitcoin-qt (bitcoind not start) writes that the database is damaged and offers to rebuild that very long . get out of the situation that vostonavlivayu database from backups.Tried to transfer the program's base themselves on another hard drive - had no effect. Prboval git version p2pool - the same (((A pattern is repeated 4 times already. What could be the problem? Sorry for the bad english.

Did you try downloading the latest version of bitcoin?  There was some headers only version on the git for a while that would cause it to do that every time you reloaded, I think

if that's not it, you should probably run a nice, long memtest86.  well, scan the HDD for errors first

p2pool wouldn't be causing it, would have to be related to the bitcoin client

I have a HDD and SSD. tried to install on all bitcoind, all the same. Bitcoind latest version from the official site. try memtest86. But the system is stable.

[IYFTech]

Whoever it is that is using my node (http://iyftech.zapto.org:9332) with payment address 1MhJ3N8szGSQEMLiyf2C4hgkWtpK3vZfCp - please check your settings - 50% of your work is DOA!!

PM me if you need any help - before I ban your IP  

Last call for the user in the UK mining on my node with BTC address 1MhJ3N8szGSQEMLiyf2C4hgkWtpK3vZfCp - you are literally throwing away 50% of your work for the last 6 hours!, not to mention making my stats look bad.....  PM me, otherwise I can't help you.

I've even put a message up on the node web interface for you - surely miners don't just point their hash at a p2pool node without checking it?  

This is painful:

[IYFTech]

I have a HDD and SSD. tried to install on all bitcoind, all the same. Bitcoind latest version from the official site. try memtest86. But the system is stable.

It looks like there is a problem with your system then, there's no reason why Bitcoin Core shouldn't install from the official website I'm afraid 

[PatMan]

Nice to be back in the 5 blocks per day bracket 

[windpath]

Nice to be back in the 5 blocks per day bracket 

Sure is, it is a good day for P2Pool

[IYFTech]

Question for some one cleverer than me:

Will the user who's flooding my node with high DOA's have any affect on my nodes performance or any other users income?

If not, I don't mind leaving it on, but if it's affecting other miners income, I'll have to ban it - but I'd hate to do that.....rather help him/her get it sorted.

Ta 

[windpath]

Question for some one cleverer than me:

Will the user who's flooding my node with high DOA's have any affect on my nodes performance or any other users income?

If not, I don't mind leaving it on, but if it's affecting other miners income, I'll have to ban it - but I'd hate to do that.....rather help him/her get it sorted.

Ta 

As long as your server can handle the load of all the combined miners it should not be an issue.

Have the same problem on Coin Cadence, very high DOA, absolutely kills the node efficiency stats...

... Essentially, you can blame dead shares on your miner configuration and orphan shares on internet latency.

I'm going to look into providing efficiency stats on a per miner basis.

[IYFTech]

OK, thanks - that's what I thought. I noticed my own DOA rate had gone up very slightly, and the thought of whoever it was throwing so much hash away was too painful to bear - so I've had to block him/her in IP tables. Feel a bit bad now though......hope they got failover set.

Whoever it is that is using my node (http://iyftech.zapto.org:9332) with payment address 1MhJ3N8szGSQEMLiyf2C4hgkWtpK3vZfCp - please check your settings - 50% of your work is DOA!!

PM me if you need any help - before I ban your IP  

Last call for the user in the UK mining on my node with BTC address 1MhJ3N8szGSQEMLiyf2C4hgkWtpK3vZfCp - you are literally throwing away 50% of your work for the last 6 hours!, not to mention making my stats look bad.....  PM me, otherwise I can't help you.

I've even put a message up on the node web interface for you - surely miners don't just point their hash at a p2pool node without checking it?  

This is painful:

Whoever this was, I'm sorry. PM me & I'll help you set up your miner properly so you're not wasting your hash.

IYFTech

On a brighter note - 7 blocks & counting......

[mdude77]

On a brighter note - 7 blocks & counting......

That's great.  Now if only it was usable by smaller miners.  I was squeezed out.  My node is empty because all of them had the same hash rate or me (1.2 TH/s) or lower, and couldn't get any shares.  There are few things more frustrating than waiting 18 hours for a share only to see it roll off in 24 hours without a block.

M

[hamburgerhelper]

On a brighter note - 7 blocks & counting......

That's great.  Now if only it was usable by smaller miners.  I was squeezed out.  My node is empty because all of them had the same hash rate or me (1.2 TH/s) or lower, and couldn't get any shares.  There are few things more frustrating than waiting 18 hours for a share only to see it roll off in 24 hours without a block.

M

Not to sound harsh, but mining in general is not going well for small miners. This doesn't appear to be a p2pool problem, but a general bitcoin problem. It's the nature of the beast.

[jonnybravo0311]

On a brighter note - 7 blocks & counting......

That's great.  Now if only it was usable by smaller miners.  I was squeezed out.  My node is empty because all of them had the same hash rate or me (1.2 TH/s) or lower, and couldn't get any shares.  There are few things more frustrating than waiting 18 hours for a share only to see it roll off in 24 hours without a block.

M

Not to sound harsh, but mining in general is not going well for small miners. This doesn't appear to be a p2pool problem, but a general bitcoin problem. It's the nature of the beast.

It is more acutely felt by small p2pool miners because of the nature of how p2pool works.  As more hash rate gets added to p2pool, the difficulty of finding a share goes up.  Those with small hash rates are affected because they might go for days without finding a share - and no share means no payout.  It's precisely the opposite problem found in other pools where the greater the hash rate, the less the variance for the individual miner.