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

[Rassah]

Should I even bother on here with my measely 1.7Gh/s ASIC, or should I stick to larget pools? (used to mine here with GPUs back when difficulty was 60-something, and not paying for mining electricity, so 100% profit)

[matthewh3]

Should I even bother on here with my measely 1.7Gh/s ASIC, or should I stick to larget pools? (used to mine here with GPUs back when difficulty was 60-something, and not paying for mining electricity, so 100% profit)

There's a couple of miners smaller than that still mining on here.  So I say the more GH's the better 

[Rluner]

I love my p2pool, ty so much for writing it. I wish I could still use it.

However my 30x333 MHz of around 10gh processing is now at this 268m difficulty, failing to get a share before p2pool finds a block, so I'm no longer getting any payouts. I've missed four in in row, after a couple of months getting in nearly every payout, bar two I think.

Unless I'm wrong, I have had to stop using p2pool and move to a smaller pool that still pays pplns.

[matthewh3]

I love my p2pool, ty so much for writing it. I wish I could still use it.

However my 30x333 MHz of around 10gh processing is now at this 268m difficulty, failing to get a share before p2pool finds a block, so I'm no longer getting any payouts. I've missed four in in row, after a couple of months getting in nearly every payout, bar two I think.

Unless I'm wrong, I have had to stop using p2pool and move to a smaller pool that still pays pplns.

Looks like the smallest payout on the last block was BTC0.00311888 with a current estimated block-time of 11hr50mins.

[zvs]

I have someone on my pool that didn't use payout ID as username, so it was credited to my address by default.

Is there something I can do on this signature to make it more clear how to use?  (he was getting like 64ghash with 3ghash DOA, avalon?)

[jedimstr]

I have someone on my pool that didn't use payout ID as username, so it was credited to my address by default.

Is there something I can do on this signature to make it more clear how to use?  (he was getting like 64ghash with 3ghash DOA, avalon?)

Another Mr T quote?

[zvs]

I have someone on my pool that didn't use payout ID as username, so it was credited to my address by default.

Is there something I can do on this signature to make it more clear how to use?  (he was getting like 64ghash with 3ghash DOA, avalon?)

Another Mr T quote?

Mr. T pities the fool that doesn't use bitcoin (ed: or quarkcoin, for quark side) payout address as userid?

 

anyway, next time I restart i'll change default payout address to the donation address

[gmaxwell]

I love my p2pool, ty so much for writing it. I wish I could still use it.

However my 30x333 MHz of around 10gh processing is now at this 268m difficulty, failing to get a share before p2pool finds a block, so I'm no longer getting any payouts. I've missed four in in row, after a couple of months getting in nearly every payout, bar two I think.

Unless I'm wrong, I have had to stop using p2pool and move to a smaller pool that still pays pplns.

You'll still get paid— but as your correct payout falls too low you won't get paid every block. Instead, you'll get shares here and there and get paid way more while those are in the window than your hashrate would suggest, offsetting when you didn't get paid. On average your expected income is the same, just with somewhat higher variance.    This is how p2pool avoids creating potentially infinitely large coinbase transactions that pay out really tiny dust (not to mention keeping the sharechain datarate sane).

[Rluner]

I'm sure I read somewhere on the P2Pool forum site that you had to get at least one share in a block to receive a payout, but I I cant get a share fast enough so I would therefore never get a payout I assumed. Sorry to ask questions that may seem obvious to you, but I really did like P2pool and I want to stay with it, but ofc I need to be 100% I will eventually get my rewards for what ever processing power I put in.

[rav3n_pl]

No. Not "whatever power".
To get payout you need find at leas one valid share.
Share diff is like 100k now. So you have to find share that big.
If you have only few MH/s if can take... days. So you will get reward for up to 3 blocks after you find share but not longer than 3 days.

[Rluner]

So as I originally said as I have 10 gh and now don't seem to find a share before p2pool finds a block I can't get paid out.

[gnar1ta$]

So as I originally said as I have 10 gh and now don't seem to find a share before p2pool finds a block I can't get paid out.

Look up, gmaxwell just explained it.  You don't need to find a share every block, or even every 3 days.  You will find a share and be paid, you will just have a lot of variance.

[Rluner]

So as I originally said as I have 10 gh and now don't seem to find a share before p2pool finds a block I can't get paid out.

Look up, gmaxwell just explained it.  You don't need to find a share every block, or even every 3 days.  You will find a share and be paid, you will just have a lot of variance.

Thanks, I had read what he said, I also read the posts after him, who said I need a share to be paid out. And therein my reply to that.

As I said at the start I really like p2pool, thanks for all the replies from you hero members. I will transfer my 10 Gh back to my own p2pool and see what happens after a week with regard to payouts. I will repost here.

Ty all so much for your advice.

[Polyatomic]

So as I originally said as I have 10 gh and now don't seem to find a share before p2pool finds a block I can't get paid out.

Look up, gmaxwell just explained it.  You don't need to find a share every block, or even every 3 days.  You will find a share and be paid, you will just have a lot of variance.

Thanks, I had read what he said, I also read the posts after him, who said I need a share to be paid out. And therein my reply to that.

As I said at the start I really like p2pool, thanks for all the replies from you hero members. I will transfer my 10 Gh back to my own p2pool and see what happens after a week with regard to payouts. I will repost here.

Ty all so much for your advice.

Rluner , you should get a similar payout to me dude , it got as high as 0.014

[FuzzyBear]

Ok is anyone else experiencing issues with KNCminers on p2pool? low hashrate etc??

Have public p2pool node here http://fuzzypool.mine.bz/ mining BTC, NMC, DVC, IXC, I0C, coiledcoins

Someone I am working with tried pointing their KNC Saturn that gets 320GH on 50BTC pool but 60-120GH when pointing at my pool.

Just wondering if it an issue with p2pool?? and if other users have experienced the same... seems one other person has :

thanks for sharing experience.

I agree on what you say and I see that -if this would be applied by all- we would end up with one centralized pool in control of everything
therefore I see a need for a next step in evolution, from solo-mining to pool-mining to decentralized p2pool/solo-mining

*edit:
p2pool doesn't work well with KnCMiners right now, do not wast GH/s (just in case one might think I'm suggesting to use it)

Any ideas??

[HellDiverUK]

Yeah, p2pool sucks for ASICs.  Doesn't work with anything that's got a semi-decent hashrate.  Doesn't work with ASICMiner Blades, doesn't works terribly well with Avalon, and seems to not work with KnC now either...

I loved the idea of p2pool, but it's problems with ASIC means I'm out of there and mining on a 'real' pool.  I would, and probably a lot of others, would return if those issues were fixed (or even acknowledged and being worked on).

[IYFTech]

Yeah, p2pool sucks for ASICs.  Doesn't work with anything that's got a semi-decent hashrate.  Doesn't work with ASICMiner Blades, doesn't works terribly well with Avalon, and seems to not work with KnC now either...

I loved the idea of p2pool, but it's problems with ASIC means I'm out of there and mining on a 'real' pool.  I would, and probably a lot of others, would return if those issues were fixed (or even acknowledged and being worked on).

+1  This is the reason I shut my node down - none of the newer hardware works with it correctly & unfortunately it has been this way for many, many months, with not much done about it. Scrolling back through this thread I see plenty of miners complaining about lack of hardware support, nothing was done so they moved on. This is why p2pool is so small, and will stay small, which is a shame. It's a brilliant idea that perfectly suits the Bitcoin decentralisation ethos - but this lack of compatibility issue will be it's undoing I'm afraid 

[-ck]

There is light at the end of the tunnel. Hashfast's ASICs will have a fast longpoll/block change/flush work implementation and it looks like Cointerra's will too.

[HellDiverUK]

There is light at the end of the tunnel. Hashfast's ASICs will have a fast longpoll/block change/flush work implementation and it looks like Cointerra's will too.

Doesn't help the thousands of miners using the currently available ASICs, though.  There's a LOT of folks out there with ASICMiner Blades...

[IYFTech]

Yup, if a pool is going to grow & be successful it has to be compatible with all mining hardware - not just a select 2 or 3 (if you're lucky). I doubt that everyone who buys the Cointerra or Hashfast units will come flooding to p2pool to rescue it.....

Presuming they will work with p2pool of course.