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

[squidicuz]

We need an automatic implementation of this function as currently it seems to be manual...?  There should be a way to support both versions of peers until majority has reached and maintained the consensus threshold, and then the older peers are banned from the network and the new version is fully enforced.  This would prevent what is occurring and seems to occur every hardfork. :s

https://github.com/p2pool/p2pool/pull/314

Awesome work. That was fast!  I'll test out that PR

[luthermarcus]

Nice im going to throw some hash rate towards p2pool!
Glad this hump is over. Now hope we can gain back some of that lost hashrate.

73.182.147.206:9332

Above is my node. I'll try keeping this up for people who may want to use it.

I'm In Hartford, Connecticut.
Donation node to p2pool with 6TH.     Hope others decide p2pool is worth saving.

Miner General Configuration

URL:  73.182.147.206:9332
Worker: YOUR BITCOIN ADDRESS
PASSWORD:ANY

View stats with link above
This can be used as a backup or for mining till you get your node up.

[KorbinDallas]

Will we get one last block at 25 BTC?  ✨ Here's to hoping 👍🏻

[btcscot]

I've being out of the loop for a little while what's being going on just started mining again now being going 2 weeks and not one single btc last time it was every 4-5 days unless I've mucked something up again

[windpath]

Will we get one last block at 25 BTC?  ✨ Here's to hoping 👍🏻

Luck has been crap lately, but the only thing I know that holds true about luck is that it's bound to change

Happy halving P2Poolers!

[jtoomim]

I've being out of the loop for a little while what's being going on just started mining again now being going 2 weeks and not one single btc last time it was every 4-5 days unless I've mucked something up again

P2pool is pretty small nowadays. Due to the size, it's expected for p2pool to find one block every two weeks on average. Sometimes we'll get multiple blocks in a single week, and sometimes we'll go a month or longer in between blocks. Unfortunately, you have to either be patient or switch pools.

[KorbinDallas]

You're spot on - Patience with the variance of P2Pool is always he tricky part.

Here's what has always surprised me: Almost everyone in the US is against the centralization of Bitcoin, especially when it comes to mining.  I'm in full agreement. It just surprises me the Bitcoin community will donate thousands of $$$ to support hosted mining of Classic vs. Core blocks. I don't have the link handy, but there are still thousands of donated dollars hosting mining of classic nodes. Wouldn't donation of these $$ directly to P2Pool make a much bigger impact? I.E. - Switch 2 P2Pool and the financial incentive is there.

Maybe we just need to make that a possibility for Bitcoin donations. Give the average Joe (a non-miner) a chance to donate to P2Pool and have that evenly distributed among the miners, this improving decentralization for everyone?

Yup...I'm still a newbie, so go easy on me. Just trying to contribute to the awesome community you studs have created!

[windpath]

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Maybe we just need to make that a possibility for Bitcoin donations. Give the average Joe (a non-miner) a chance to donate to P2Pool and have that evenly distributed among the miners, this improving decentralization for everyone?

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The ability to fairly do what you are talking about already exists in the patron_sendmany endpoint, you can read about it here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool#Donating_to_P2Pool_miners

Here is an example output of the endpoint:  http://minefast.coincadence.com:9332/patron_sendmany/10

It can be called from any P2Pool node.

There used to be a web based interface that set up a donation address and the transaction, but it's been gone for a while.

If someone was to commit to a 1 BTC donation to patron_sendmany I'll add a new web based version to CoinCadence

[KorbinDallas]

Count me in for 0.1 BTC!
Anybody else want to join?

Thanks Coin Cadence! Love your site.

[Sbolt]

Was not long blocks (((
Who can restart the main node !?
After the latest updates no block (((

[in2tactics]

Was not long blocks (((
Who can restart the main node !?
After the latest updates no block (((

I am not really sure what you are asking.

[lightfoot]

Count me in for 0.1 BTC!
Anybody else want to join?

Thanks Coin Cadence! Love your site.

Sure, I'll pledge .1 BTC. Let's get .3 more and do this.

[in2tactics]

How big of an impact is it that there are several nodes out there still running on versions older than 16? After looking at a few different node scanners, I found nodes running versions as old as version 13 and some of these nodes have hash rates as high as 100TH/s.

[KyrosKrane]

How big of an impact is it that there are several nodes out there still running on versions older than 16? After looking at a few different node scanners, I found nodes running versions as old as version 13 and some of these nodes have hash rates as high as 100TH/s.

The people running those nodes are hurting themselves, mostly -- but they can hurt others in two ways.

First, their hash rate is effectively lost to the v16 network, meaning the rest of the p2pool users wouldn't get paid if the old-version users hit a block.

Second, they can cause other users who are just rejoining p2pool to join their outdated chain, magnifying the problem. The majority network is now on v16, and rejecting any shares from v15 or earlier. There was a Reddit post a week or two back about a guy who spun up a new p2pool node with a slightly outdated software version (it didn't have the v16-only commit applied yet), got connected to the v15 network, and mined for quite a while wondering why he was getting poor results.

The upshot is that if at all possible, we should try to contact node owners still mining on v15 or earlier and convince them to upgrade.

[KorbinDallas]

Count me in for 0.1 BTC!
Anybody else want to join?

Thanks Coin Cadence! Love your site.

Sure, I'll pledge .1 BTC. Let's get .3 more and do this.

...ok,ok, I'm willing to up my ante to 0.2 BTC. So that takes us to 0.3 BTC total...only another 70% to go 

I'll also pledge my Reddit advertising skillz, if the donation link comes together. Offering this incentive to existing miners, along with P2Pool's other benefits might just tip the scales in the popularity direction again.  We can't let such an elegant solution to mining centralization fade away in the background.

[lightfoot]

Doubled as well, someone get off their ass and kick in a .10

C

[KorbinDallas]

Worse P2Pool variance of all time? 35+ days...Bitcoin Gods, what have a done to upset you?

Patience is always the tuff part.

[KorbinDallas]

Anyone else seen this?

Last P2Pool block I have hitting was on June 19, 2016 (block 416989). Yet multiple block explorers indicate P2Pool's last mined block was on June 28, 2016 (block 418300). I've confirmed on multiple blockchain explorers. Even stranger is the newly minted coins for block 418300 are only sent to 2 addresses. Other P2Pool blocks are distributed to 90+ miners.

Links below.  What's going on here? Does this explain the recent variance?

https://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/pool/p2pool
https://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/block/416989/
https://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/block/418300/

[sawa]

Anyone else seen this?

Last P2Pool block I have hitting was on June 19, 2016 (block 416989). Yet multiple block explorers indicate P2Pool's last mined block was on June 28, 2016 (block 418300). I've confirmed on multiple blockchain explorers. Even stranger is the newly minted coins for block 418300 are only sent to 2 addresses. Other P2Pool blocks are distributed to 90+ miners.

Links below.  What's going on here? Does this explain the recent variance?

https://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/pool/p2pool
https://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/block/416989/
https://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/block/418300/

Block 418300 mined in solo mode:

I'm a little modify a p2pool sources and using it as a stratum proxy.

[squidicuz]

Doubled as well, someone get off their ass and kick in a .10

C

Fine.  How we doing this?