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

[centove]

I've been mining pretty well I thought but I didn't get a payout on the last block.

https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000006fdeafb19ca3c74baa5f31f1f36f98b79fb914229d1dc7fe9e

Also, the "Blocks found in last day" is showing a very old block

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Thu May 02 2013 12:20:58 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)   234219   000000000000003ca0bd661df02a9bba63fe0324b11c6c648a45d8b6b47adafb   →

Anyone know what's going on here?

Your node connected to any peers?

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[Richy_T]

I've been mining pretty well I thought but I didn't get a payout on the last block.

https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000006fdeafb19ca3c74baa5f31f1f36f98b79fb914229d1dc7fe9e

Also, the "Blocks found in last day" is showing a very old block

time   number   hash/explorer link   share
Thu May 02 2013 12:20:58 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)   234219   000000000000003ca0bd661df02a9bba63fe0324b11c6c648a45d8b6b47adafb   →

Anyone know what's going on here?

Your node connected to any peers?

From the graph, it looks so. However, I had turned QOS back on which may have been causing me issues before. Turned it back off now and we'll see how it goes. Then I need to try making p2pool high priority and see if it starts working then.

[Richy_T]

Yep. It was that pesky QOS again. No idea why it would be causing issues, doesn't make much sense. P2Pool should still be getting bandwidth.

[Searinox]

Returning with an answer to yesterday's issue: my p2pool is again showing payout if a block were found now at 0 btc and I have 6 peers out 3 in. Why does it say i'd get 0?

[Richy_T]

Returning with an answer to yesterday's issue: my p2pool is again showing payout if a block were found now at 0 btc and I have 6 peers out 3 in. Why does it say i'd get 0?

I believe you earn shares in quantum increments. Until you earn a share, it will be at zero.

[Searinox]

Returning with an answer to yesterday's issue: my p2pool is again showing payout if a block were found now at 0 btc and I have 6 peers out 3 in. Why does it say i'd get 0?

I believe you earn shares in quantum increments. Until you earn a share, it will be at zero.

Could you explain more about earning shares? I've been mining for a month and until yesterday I never saw 0. What exactly is my node doing less of?

[Krak]

Returning with an answer to yesterday's issue: my p2pool is again showing payout if a block were found now at 0 btc and I have 6 peers out 3 in. Why does it say i'd get 0?

I believe you earn shares in quantum increments. Until you earn a share, it will be at zero.

Could you explain more about earning shares? I've been mining for a month and until yesterday I never saw 0. What exactly is my node doing less of?

What's your hashrate? Also, are you using a static payout address with the -a flag or using a bitcoin address for your miner's username?

[Searinox]

Returning with an answer to yesterday's issue: my p2pool is again showing payout if a block were found now at 0 btc and I have 6 peers out 3 in. Why does it say i'd get 0?

I believe you earn shares in quantum increments. Until you earn a share, it will be at zero.

Could you explain more about earning shares? I've been mining for a month and until yesterday I never saw 0. What exactly is my node doing less of?

What's your hashrate? Also, are you using a static payout address with the -a flag or using a bitcoin address for your miner's username?

Hashrate varies between 110 and 280 Mh/s with an average of 190 over a month of nonstop mining. I'm using bitcoin-qt's address to send the payment and not the -a flag.

[Krak]

Hashrate varies between 110 and 280 Mh/s with an average of 190 over a month of nonstop mining. I'm using bitcoin-qt's address to send the payment and not the -a flag.

I highly recommend specifying a static address. If you don't, p2pool will pick different addresses when you restart the Bitcoin client and your share count will start over with the new address.

[Searinox]

Hashrate varies between 110 and 280 Mh/s with an average of 190 over a month of nonstop mining. I'm using bitcoin-qt's address to send the payment and not the -a flag.

I highly recommend specifying a static address. If you don't, p2pool will pick different addresses when you restart the Bitcoin client and your share count will start over with the new address.

When I first started P2Pool, it generated a new, dedicated address to mine to. Ever since, and including during the 0btc estimates, it has been mining only to that address. I have no other addresses in my wallet. Also, the sharecount ins't lost when I reset P2Pool, it happens spontaneously.

[maqifrnswa]

Returning with an answer to yesterday's issue: my p2pool is again showing payout if a block were found now at 0 btc and I have 6 peers out 3 in. Why does it say i'd get 0?

I believe you earn shares in quantum increments. Until you earn a share, it will be at zero.

Could you explain more about earning shares? I've been mining for a month and until yesterday I never saw 0. What exactly is my node doing less of?

your node is unlucky at the moment. When you hash, you're basically guessing a number. Sometimes you'll guess the right number (and solve a share - kind of like solving a block), and sometimes you'll guess a wrong number. As difficulty goes up, it's harder and harder to guess the right number. When you guess the right number, you get credit for a share which then means you get paid every time p2pool finds a block over the next day (currently for p2pool, but this can change).

Your node has been unlucky at guessing numbers lately, so you haven't gotten a share and won't get paid until you do. Sometimes you'll get luck and guess two in a row, in which case you'll get paid 2x more than if you found just one share.

regarding static address: p2pool generates one the first time you run it, and as long as there is a "p2pool" address in your wallet it will mine to that one. It wo't create a new one with  new address unless you wipe your wallet.

[Searinox]

Returning with an answer to yesterday's issue: my p2pool is again showing payout if a block were found now at 0 btc and I have 6 peers out 3 in. Why does it say i'd get 0?

I believe you earn shares in quantum increments. Until you earn a share, it will be at zero.

Could you explain more about earning shares? I've been mining for a month and until yesterday I never saw 0. What exactly is my node doing less of?

your node is unlucky at the moment. When you hash, you're basically guessing a number. Sometimes you'll guess the right number (and solve a share - kind of like solving a block), and sometimes you'll guess a wrong number. As difficulty goes up, it's harder and harder to guess the right number. When you guess the right number, you get credit for a share which then means you get paid every time p2pool finds a block over the next day (currently for p2pool, but this can change).

Your node has been unlucky at guessing numbers lately, so you haven't gotten a share and won't get paid until you do. Sometimes you'll get luck and guess two in a row, in which case you'll get paid 2x more than if you found just one share.

regarding static address: p2pool generates one the first time you run it, and as long as there is a "p2pool" address in your wallet it will mine to that one. It wo't create a new one with  new address unless you wipe your wallet.

Unlucky sounds about right. I haven't gotten lucky at all the past few days. Glad that explains it.

[daemondazz]

Yeah, it seems to me that the last week has been very unlucky - sort of corresponds to ASCIminer bringing more power online, but I don't know if that's just coincidental or not.

[GrapeApe]

I am new to bitcoins and even newer to p2p. I am gpu mining with cgminer and I noticed it is mining with two threads. Would it be better to mine with one thread? I am getting 200 MH/s with a 7770 I am told that is as good as gets. Also what does the below quote mean and should I be doing it to make sure I stay updated, and if so how?
EDIT I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (which is also very new to me)

"Run the latest code: you can run something like the bash script I run by cron everyday to restart p2pool after updating it when there's a new version available. You'll need to know how to install p2pool from git, create a "pool.sh" script to run your node"

[crunchy]

This is not designed to get me the best results i can get.

This is designed so some other can get on top of things and profit the most.

I can run @ 130% efficiency continuous, but the program rather sets things so that i end up @ 90% efficiency.

in effect this program works against me, add in all the latencyfuckers and were done.

"Skipping from block"  , thats what i'm gonna do before i put in a ton that will never pay off itself even.



and asking 1.0% for the author ?


decent people wait for it , they dont take it.


care to explain why skipping from block punishes anywhere from 1 to 20 times per skipped block ? wheres the logic in that.

and why are ip's like 54.250.3.112 and 24.214.18.71 having days off continuously requesting shares from my peer ? (u can guess where the latency goes , to the moon and back all day).

[gyverlb]

This is not designed to get me the best results i can get.
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Maybe if you described the problem you have more accurately someone could help. At least I didn't even understand half of what you were referring to in your post.
See http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html for guidelines.

[rav3n_pl]

and why are ip's like 54.250.3.112 and 24.214.18.71 having days off continuously requesting shares from my peer ? (u can guess where the latency goes , to the moon and back all day).

Just ban those IPs. Problem solved.

[walf_man]

Memory usage graph now works in Windows, thanks to David Kassa

can not work on windows server 2012
how to?
thanks very a lot!

[Searinox]

This is not designed to get me the best results i can get.

This is designed so some other can get on top of things and profit the most.

I can run @ 130% efficiency continuous, but the program rather sets things so that i end up @ 90% efficiency.

in effect this program works against me, add in all the latencyfuckers and were done.

"Skipping from block"  , thats what i'm gonna do before i put in a ton that will never pay off itself even.



and asking 1.0% for the author ?


decent people wait for it , they dont take it.


care to explain why skipping from block punishes anywhere from 1 to 20 times per skipped block ? wheres the logic in that.

and why are ip's like 54.250.3.112 and 24.214.18.71 having days off continuously requesting shares from my peer ? (u can guess where the latency goes , to the moon and back all day).

Have you tried using 11.3 instead? When I used 11.4 I noticed my latency was going up after every few hours and staying there until I restarted everything. Several other people noticed this too. I switched back to 11.3 and latency was back to normal.

[forrestv]

care to explain why skipping from block punishes anywhere from 1 to 20 times per skipped block ? wheres the logic in that.

It's not punishing you, it's punishing some other person who made a share when there was already a new Bitcoin block. The message being repeated doesn't really mean anything.