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

[Qoheleth]

i think the split part of the pool found a block

p2pool client:
"Payout if block: 0.087618 BTC"

http://blockchain.info/block-index/854582:
16fkg8GtdNbEvoJHRHJxhsNpTyxRbi8Twg 0.05413772 BTC

I'm pretty sure that's the actual P2Pool.

I have a couple dozen shares but didn't see a cent from the payout here. Is that expected?

[Qoheleth]

I would think that if you have shares and we find a block, you should get a payout. It will show up as mined if you are using QT. If you are checking your balance with bitcoind, you have to wait 120 confirmations before it will show up.

See, the problem is that not only do I not see anything on QT, but I don't see my mining address in the payout section of the block either.

[1onevvolf]

I find it fascinating how even while being split in two, with roughly ~115GH/s in the group using the new version and ~90GH/s in the group using the old version (if I'm reading things correctly and the Pool GH/s stat counts only verified shares of each fragment), that the p2pool is still correctly solving blocks and doling out rewards (to those that are in the fragment that actually solved the block, of course).

Could fragmentation actually be a good thing in the long run? Maybe the protocol could try to optimally split nodes by hashing capacity or locality? To how many GH/s can p2pool scale before bandwidth starts becoming an issue? Could rewards somehow get shared across these fragments, forming a sort of recursive tree structure? I'm just asking because 10 second rounds doesn't give the network much time to propagate the solved blocks to every node, and it seems possible that with many more miners in the pool there would be a lot of losses due to orphaned blocks.

[Qoheleth]

I would think that if you have shares and we find a block, you should get a payout. It will show up as mined if you are using QT. If you are checking your balance with bitcoind, you have to wait 120 confirmations before it will show up.

See, the problem is that not only do I not see anything on QT, but I don't see my mining address in the payout section of the block either.

Are you on the split chain? What is the pools hash rate on your P2Pool software?

Code:

2012-01-27 17:08:02.697145 Pool: 111GH/s in 17457 shares (26165/34750 verified) Recent: 0.41% >457MH/s Shares: 16 (0 orphan, 2 dead) Peers: 12 (0 incoming)

I've been using GIT p2pool since I started trying it out a couple days ago, and updated again when the announcement went out to make sure we were running latest.

[Qoheleth]

Hmm... And you've assigned an address using -a? Someone more knowledgeable is probably going to have to help you!

I have not assigned an address using -a; the log seemed to indicate that during startup p2pool automatically asked my bitcoin-qt for a wallet address to use and has been using that one (said address shows up in my address list in the GUI as well).

Was that the mistake? Is that address not really being used here?

[Qoheleth]

Another. http://blockchain.info/block-index/854609

This one paid out for me.

[1onevvolf]

Another. http://blockchain.info/block-index/854609

That looks like the new chain. The one from before must have been the older chain.

[gnar1ta$]

Well I now have 2 payouts and had none 2 hours ago, so idk what is going on. Was there no subsidy payments today? My everything crashed overnight and I didn't notice until a few hours ago so that may have caused me some issues.

[Ranvier]

Yes! I finally got my first payout. It took awhile due to the bad luck recently, but it is worth the decentralization as well as not paying the fees.

[TheHarbinger]

2 blocks within 2 hours.  That makes up for not hitting any block a few days ago.


Now, if we can hit a block an hour for the next day or so.......

[TheHarbinger]

2 blocks within 2 hours.  That makes up for not hitting any block a few days ago.


Now, if we can hit a block an hour for the next day or so.......

Well the day before that zero block day a few days ago, we found five, so that day was already taken care of.

It's the last two zero block days that we need to make up for!

Anyway, try not to worry about it, it will even out over time. 

I know, I was here for that 5 block day.  I was quite happy when I got home from work and checked on it.   

[cheat_2_win]

I was just able to configure P2pool. Starting next week, I will move all of my 500 MH/s to P2pool from deepbit. It is nice to have decentralized mining pool. I feel P2pool will be the future of bitcoin mining.

[Red Emerald]

I was just able to configure P2pool. Starting next week, I will move all of my 500 MH/s to P2pool from deepbit. It is nice to have decentralized mining pool. I feel P2pool will be the future of bitcoin mining.

Why next week?

[Ente]

Good morning!

I let p2pool run for the last 10 hours, with around 280mh/s.
Still nothing, it says "0", and no payment neither on the stated adress nor in the bitcoin wallet..

09:28:01.519000 Pool: 98493MH/s in 17413 shares (13243/17417 verified) Recent: 0
.00% >0H/s Shares: 0 (0 orphan, 0 dead) Peers: 10
09:28:01.519000 Average time between blocks: 0.66 days
09:28:01.519000 Pool stales: 11%
09:28:03.687000 New work for worker! Difficulty: 204.564642 Payout if block: 0.0
04852 BTC Total block value: 50.005000 BTC including 18 transactions

Halp! What do?

Ente

[Costia]

what does the miner say?
the p2pool client is from git?

[Ente]

what does the miner say?

c:\programme\p2pool\poclbm\poclbm.exe http://xxx:xxx@127.0.0.1:9332 -d0 --verbose -f 100 -w 128 -v

127.0.0.1:9332 28/01/2012 09:27:25, long poll: new block 000002163e0ae1f4
127.0.0.1:9332 28/01/2012 09:27:31, long poll: new block 000002163e0ae1f4
127.0.0.1:9332 28/01/2012 09:27:48, long poll: new block 000002163e0ae1f4
127.0.0.1:9332 28/01/2012 09:27:59, long poll: new block 000002163e0ae1f4
127.0.0.1:9332 28/01/2012 09:28:03, long poll: new block 000002163e0ae1f4

the p2pool client is from git?

Yes, got it from https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool/


Oh, the miner actually says

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'phatk.cl'

When starting. I copied the missing phatk.cl here and there, but didnt figure out where poclbm expects it to be, so I still have that error. It seems to to something, so I didnt concentrate on it any more.. May that be the culprit?

Ente

[Costia]

yep
what is the hashrate that cgminer reports at the top?

[Frizz23]

Is there a site for stats for p2pool?

Like
- the actual block we are working on.
- blocks solved history.

[Ente]

yep
what is the hashrate that cgminer reports at the top?

No cgminer here, I run poclbm directly (or via guiminer, which is what my friend has running on the other computers).
poclbm doesnt report any hashrate whatsoever.
However guiminer says around 280mh/s.
I had poclbm running over night, not guiminer. Both use the same flags.

Ente

[Frizz23]

We are always working on the next block. Check Bitcoin-QT or bitcoind getblockcount.

How do I do this (-> bitcoind getblockcount) ?