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

[Rotorgeek]

Ok sorry if these answers are somewhere in the 306 pages of this post, I did not read them all.

Is the real pool site www.p2pool.org? The reason I ask is, the Wiki talks about needing to run the wallet program with some arguments, and a p2p program. The .org site says you can mine with just the wallet address as your user name.

I'm also interested in mining several coins(one a day depending on value) with your site and was wondering if that is a bad idea, it sounds like my return goes up the longer I mine a particular coin.

Thanks
Rotor

[notme]

Ok sorry if these answers are somewhere in the 306 pages of this post, I did not read them all.

Is the real pool site www.p2pool.org? The reason I ask is, the Wiki talks about needing to run the wallet program with some arguments, and a p2p program. The .org site says you can mine with just the wallet address as your user name.

I'm also interested in mining several coins(one a day depending on value) with your site and was wondering if that is a bad idea, it sounds like my return goes up the longer I mine a particular coin.

Thanks
Rotor

If you want to run your own node, you need bitcoind and the p2pool program.  If you want to connect to a public node, you can just use your wallet address as your user name.  If you run your own node, you can merge mine any coin that supports it.

[twmz]

Ok sorry if these answers are somewhere in the 306 pages of this post, I did not read them all.

Is the real pool site www.p2pool.org? The reason I ask is, the Wiki talks about needing to run the wallet program with some arguments, and a p2p program. The .org site says you can mine with just the wallet address as your user name.

I'm also interested in mining several coins(one a day depending on value) with your site and was wondering if that is a bad idea, it sounds like my return goes up the longer I mine a particular coin.

Thanks
Rotor

P2Pool is software that allows people to do distributed pooled mining.  You run the p2pool software and bitcoin software yourself and you point your miners at your own installation of p2pool.

p2pool.org is a website where someone (not the author of p2pool) has taken the p2pool software and is hosting a public node that anyone can mine at (for a fee).  You can point your miners there without needed your own installation of p2pool as long as you are ok with delegating some amount of control of your mining activity to the owner of p2pool.org.

[diskodasa]

Can someone explain what is going on? Please! Pretty please! 

Can you find your payout address here:
http://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000000000a6913ee4ada3b92bed9f1398ad8f22f4f944a5d5593197d68

if it is listed in the above link, the payout exists, you just have to find where it went in your wallet. Also double check your payout addresses in p2pool, make sure that there isn't a typo.

you won't show up in p2pool-nodes.info unless you have a well connected public node. If you do have a public node, would you mind sharing the IP address so we can check out the stats and configuration?

No, it does not exist in this payout round, all the settings are untouched. I got payment of todays block, after that one....

[notme]

Can someone explain what is going on? Please! Pretty please! 

Can you find your payout address here:
http://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000000000a6913ee4ada3b92bed9f1398ad8f22f4f944a5d5593197d68

if it is listed in the above link, the payout exists, you just have to find where it went in your wallet. Also double check your payout addresses in p2pool, make sure that there isn't a typo.

you won't show up in p2pool-nodes.info unless you have a well connected public node. If you do have a public node, would you mind sharing the IP address so we can check out the stats and configuration?

No, it does not exist in this payout round, all the settings are untouched. I got payment of todays block, after that one....

Were you mining long enough to get a share on the previous block?  What is your average share time, and can you review the historical charts to make sure you found a share?  Alternatively, if the node is on a public ip/port share them and we can take a look.

[bitpop]

I think he already figured out he was forked

[notme]

I think he already figured out he was forked

That was a different guy, and this guy says he's been using 13.1.

[diskodasa]

Yes I was mining 24/7, the whole time. And when the block is found I got nothing and p2pool continued like nothing happened. I was on the public node but suddenly I am not anymore, today I got the payment from the last blockbut not from the one before - the long one... I am using 13.1 and this is wallet 16F9t8PKoohyhgfgU1iRe83RPvMrLCzJYM. I think that I have been hardforked...

[bitpop]

Or you may used a compromised node

[diskodasa]

Or you may used a compromised node

What you mean? I started the p2pool then cgminer, like usual, and that's it...

[bitpop]

But you said public node

[diskodasa]

But you said public node

Yes I did! My IP was showing on the public IP node before the long block. During the long block my IP wasn't showing there, neither do now. I didn't fiddle with the settings, but now i remember that i did installed some MS updates and rebooted the PC during the long block. But after that everything worked "normal". Started p2pool and cgminer, as usual, and that's it!
How can I tell if I am doing it right, right now!?

[bitpop]

You don't have to have it public.
Just look at the homepage, make sure there's shares, btc and your address.
Like mine

http://bitpoppool.clck.cc:9332/static/

[zvs]

the whole v11 nodes connecting then me requesting parent shares from like 10 nodes every few seconds is causing some issues i think

so i set it to 4 incoming,  usually 2 or 3 connect right away, hopefully last one or so won't be v11

i put a log file of the action up temporarily at www.nogleg.com/swank.txt

i think I got all the IPs,  guess it's not a huge deal

[asyring]

why is the diff so high in version 13.1?

9k is a little bit high isn't it?

I don't get any shares. What can I do?

[twmz]

why is the diff so high in version 13.1?

After the cutover, the targets for finding shares is now only one per 30 seconds instead of one per 10 seconds.  That is accomplished by making share difficulty is 3x higher.

I don't get any shares. What can I do?

To get shares more often, the only thing you can do is add more hashrate.  If you can't or don't want to add more hashrate, then the only thing you can do is be content with the increased variance.  In the long run, you'll earn the same as before, it will just be more spikey (you'll find a share 3x less often, but each share will be worth 3x as much).

[rav3n_pl]

Ahh, this is BAD, I was sure that chain lengh will be change too, that payout last long for up to 3 days. But it is NOT.
Now small miners are killed for p2pool.

[twmz]

Ahh, this is BAD, iw as sure that chain lengh will be change too, that payout last long for up to 3 days. But it is NOT.
Now small miners are killed for p2pool.

The chain is the same number of shares as before, but because shares are found 3x less often, that means that the chain is 3 times longer in real-word time (3 days instead of 1 day).

Like it or not, the bitcoin mining community is in the midst of a transition to ASICs and the result is that small miners (GPU miners) are going to be left behind, no matter what pool you are on.

[rav3n_pl]

Odd, if it IS 3 days on 30sec longpool share diff should be same like in 1 day/10 sec...
What changed?

[maqifrnswa]

Ahh, this is BAD, iw as sure that chain lengh will be change too, that payout last long for up to 3 days. But it is NOT.
Now small miners are killed for p2pool.

The chain is the same number of shares as before, but because shares are found 3x less often, that means that the chain is 3 times longer in real-word time (3 days instead of 1 day).

Like it or not, the bitcoin mining community is in the midst of a transition to ASICs and the result is that small miners (GPU miners) are going to be left behind, no matter what pool you are on.

you're right, it is 3 days EXCEPT spread is 3. so if time to block is 20 hours, shares only will last for 60

so
3x longer shares = 3x higher difficulty = shares last 3x longer = same payout per share per before, just find them less often and they stick around for longer

EDIT: what chaged - shares are 3x harder to find and live for 3x longer, although spread is 3 - and time to block is like 20 hours, so shares last 60 hours (instead of 72)