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

[jedimstr]

-a bitcoinAddress

do I need to add anything to the bitcoin.conf?

Not to change the node fee payment address. -a sets that address, as jedimstr said above.

So I don't need the disablewallet=1 in bitcoin.conf correct, only need to add the -a {address} to my P2Pool startup string?

 

No, you don't "need" it... but I use disablewallet=1 anyway since I only use bitcoin-qt (or bitcoin core since that's what we're calling it these days) for it's blockchain RPC and not as a wallet.

Note: disablewallet=1 only works on bitcoind/bitcoinqt OMG10 and 0.9.0 rc2 at the moment (that I know of).

Not sure what OMG10 is? I use bitcoin-qt 0.8.6 on my P2Pool.

Bitcoin OMG10 is the last updated version from the test build of Bitcoin-qt client from the Litecoin Devs (contributing back into the main bitcoin core development).  Check it out here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=320695

It had a lot of the features that made it into 0.9.0 release candidates and 0.8.6 before they were released.

I don't think -disablewallet is available in the regular 0.8.6 release of bitcoind/bitcoin-qt.

[Tegija]

Is there anyway to disable the wallet function in P2Pool and have it instead forward the percentage of shares the note is to receive to a different wallet?

I have hit a stumbling block; over a week a go I initiated a transfer of over 1/2 a bitcoin and Bitcoin-QT told me I need to account for 0.0004 of the fee, so I did that and ever since the transfer has been in limbo, it looks like bitcoin-qt gave me the wrong fee to account for it if I understand the blockchain correctly.

https://blockchain.info/tx-index/7bbbc7b5fac8c2973e9c62a17cead946b9cf1832aac47479799ce566fafabcc1

Also I need to figure out if can fix this issue or have I lost those coins?

Thanks,

i had long ago same problem and the solution is really -a. i do not really remember anymore how it really worked but it is possible to get back this coins. i am sure that here are many people who can help you to find solution.

main thing why i am writing about is that your problem has same background as my long ago: bitcoin-QT told you that you have to pay fee 0.0004BTC (it often happens virgin coins) but you paid only 0.00004, so 10 times less. try to be more careful next time to avoid that it happens again. i needed 3 weeks until i had my coins back...

[smooth]

Is there anyway to disable the wallet function in P2Pool and have it instead forward the percentage of shares the note is to receive to a different wallet?

I have hit a stumbling block; over a week a go I initiated a transfer of over 1/2 a bitcoin and Bitcoin-QT told me I need to account for 0.0004 of the fee, so I did that and ever since the transfer has been in limbo, it looks like bitcoin-qt gave me the wrong fee to account for it if I understand the blockchain correctly.

https://blockchain.info/tx-index/7bbbc7b5fac8c2973e9c62a17cead946b9cf1832aac47479799ce566fafabcc1

Also I need to figure out if can fix this issue or have I lost those coins?

Thanks,

Use the addnode listed here and keep your client open and connected so it will retransmit.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Free_transaction_relay_policy

If you can get it relayed, someone will probably mine it.

The issue with the transaction is the change output is small so it fails the 0.01 output rule. That is dumb and this rule is being removed but most nodes enforce it now.

[qbsterr]

Hey,

I did start p2pool but im not sure is this setup correct.

My stats:

<sup>P2Pool BTC

Graphs

Version: 13.4-16-g5ee3172-dirty

Pool rate: 105TH/s (14% DOA+orphan) Share difficulty: 453000

Node uptime: 9.0 hours Peers: 7 out, 0 in

Local rate: 3.88GH/s (7.3% DOA) Expected time to share: 5.8 days

Shares: 0 total (0 orphaned, 0 dead) Efficiency: ? ? ?

Payout if a block were found NOW: 0 BTC to 1APv5LQpmEHuVitA7dJMEkVoamxYEPmw7c. Expected after mining for 24 hours: 0.000931 BTC per block.

Current block value: 25.13156442 BTC Expected time to block: 1.8 days</sup>

Im worry about Shares, Efficiency and Peers 0 in

Is this normall ?

And how long i have to wait for any result ( avarage ) ?

Any advice ?

[roy7]

0 in peers is fine, you have 7 out so you are connected. You only get paid if you find shares for the share chain and

Local rate: 3.88GH/s (7.3% DOA) Expected time to share: 5.8 days

Is not pretty. It will take you on average 6 days to find a share. That share will be worth enough to cover 6 days of earnings, except the pool also needs to find a block while your share is active.

Some miners with 180GH of hash power don't like using p2pool because of the variance. Using it with 4GH... you can do it, but you might wait weeks at a time without a payment if you have bad luck.

[Tegija]

0 in peers is fine, you have 7 out so you are connected. You only get paid if you find shares for the share chain and

Local rate: 3.88GH/s (7.3% DOA) Expected time to share: 5.8 days

Is not pretty. It will take you on average 6 days to find a share. That share will be worth enough to cover 6 days of earnings, except the pool also needs to find a block while your share is active.

Some miners with 180GH of hash power don't like using p2pool because of the variance. Using it with 4GH... you can do it, but you might wait weeks at a time without a payment if you have bad luck.

for sure it does not have big sense to have own node for such small hash power. you should connect your power then at least to one node where are already some miners, so you will have little better chance to find a share. or try to find some more miner for your own node.

[smooth]

Is not pretty. It will take you on average 6 days to find a share. That share will be worth enough to cover 6 days of earnings, except the pool also needs to find a block while your share is active.

Some miners with 180GH of hash power don't like using p2pool because of the variance. Using it with 4GH... you can do it, but you might wait weeks at a time without a payment if you have bad luck.

For now, waiting weeks is unlikely (but possible). The average for the pool to find a block is only a day and a half, so very likely it will find one during the three days your share is active.  

My feeling on this has always been if its a hobby (and it damn well better be a hobby at 4 GH) then treat it as such, have fun with the small "raffle" and help the bitcoin and p2pool networks by running a node

This will get worse as difficulty continues to grow if the p2pool network doesn't keep up (and it doesn't look like it will), but still no reason not to treat it like a fun raffle if you are mining as a hobby.

[zvs]

re: creating p2pools for alt currencies
(...)

Ure right, removed it on my fork
https://github.com/Rav3nPL/p2pool-rav/commit/a19b69536f0e79869a863b6603459e1055441a1a
Will restart all my nodes one by one to make it happen.

ah, nice, just noticed this

i'll probably start up the doge pool again

ah, long live doge, too boring to monitor all the new shitcoins, just leave it on there for a month or so

now if ppl would just upgrade their doge pools to new version.

alas

[zvs]

Is there anyway to disable the wallet function in P2Pool and have it instead forward the percentage of shares the note is to receive to a different wallet?

I have hit a stumbling block; over a week a go I initiated a transfer of over 1/2 a bitcoin and Bitcoin-QT told me I need to account for 0.0004 of the fee, so I did that and ever since the transfer has been in limbo, it looks like bitcoin-qt gave me the wrong fee to account for it if I understand the blockchain correctly.

https://blockchain.info/tx-index/7bbbc7b5fac8c2973e9c62a17cead946b9cf1832aac47479799ce566fafabcc1

Also I need to figure out if can fix this issue or have I lost those coins?

Thanks,

correct fee for that is 0.0004, the fee on link provided is 0.00004

chances of getting into a block that is less than 10k (or 27k if it's priority)  in size is slim

[smoothrunnings]

Is there anyway to disable the wallet function in P2Pool and have it instead forward the percentage of shares the note is to receive to a different wallet?

I have hit a stumbling block; over a week a go I initiated a transfer of over 1/2 a bitcoin and Bitcoin-QT told me I need to account for 0.0004 of the fee, so I did that and ever since the transfer has been in limbo, it looks like bitcoin-qt gave me the wrong fee to account for it if I understand the blockchain correctly.

https://blockchain.info/tx-index/7bbbc7b5fac8c2973e9c62a17cead946b9cf1832aac47479799ce566fafabcc1

Also I need to figure out if can fix this issue or have I lost those coins?

Thanks,

correct fee for that is 0.0004, the fee on link provided is 0.00004

chances of getting into a block that is less than 10k (or 27k if it's priority)  in size is slim

Thanks. I am in the process of moving my P2Pool so I can use pywallet and leave my bitcoin-qt shutdown for a week or so, hopefully the it will be removed from the blockchain then so I can resend it with the correct amount, then move my P2Pool back.

[zvs]

Is there anyway to disable the wallet function in P2Pool and have it instead forward the percentage of shares the note is to receive to a different wallet?

I have hit a stumbling block; over a week a go I initiated a transfer of over 1/2 a bitcoin and Bitcoin-QT told me I need to account for 0.0004 of the fee, so I did that and ever since the transfer has been in limbo, it looks like bitcoin-qt gave me the wrong fee to account for it if I understand the blockchain correctly.

https://blockchain.info/tx-index/7bbbc7b5fac8c2973e9c62a17cead946b9cf1832aac47479799ce566fafabcc1

Also I need to figure out if can fix this issue or have I lost those coins?

Thanks,

correct fee for that is 0.0004, the fee on link provided is 0.00004

chances of getting into a block that is less than 10k (or 27k if it's priority)  in size is slim

Thanks. I am in the process of moving my P2Pool so I can use pywallet and leave my bitcoin-qt shutdown for a week or so, hopefully the it will be removed from the blockchain then so I can resend it with the correct amount, then move my P2Pool back.

the way to fix those is just to create a new wallet.dat (back up old one ofc), then import private key of the address that sent those coins that never arrived and reindex blockchain

[smooth]

Thanks. I am in the process of moving my P2Pool so I can use pywallet and leave my bitcoin-qt shutdown for a week or so, hopefully the it will be removed from the blockchain then so I can resend it with the correct amount, then move my P2Pool back.

Yes it will eventually time out and you will get your coins back, unless it happens to get mined by someone who doesn't care about the fee.

Minor correction to your terminology though. It isn't in the "blockchain" just the memory pool (collection of unmined transactions that have been sent).

EDIT: You still need to remove the transaction from your wallet so you can resend, which seems most easily done by (temporarily) creating a new wallet and importing the private keys for all the inputs on the transaction. That sounds like a pain, but it is what it is.

[smoothrunnings]

Is there anyway to setup bitcoin-qt so it subtracts the correct fee from your send transfers without you having to do it manually like multibit does?

Thanks,

[silverfern]

Hi guys,

A new miner here. I am currently mining on a p2pool. I have two gaming computers mining to one address. When I check the p2pool hashrate (on their website) adding the second computer doesn't do anything to my hashrate.

Am I doing something wrong? Are other people finding this as well?

Thank you in advance!

Edit: Second computer is at a different house, if that matters.

[roy7]

Hi guys,

A new miner here. I am currently mining on a p2pool. I have two gaming computers mining to one address. When I check the p2pool hashrate (on their website) adding the second computer doesn't do anything to my hashrate.

Am I doing something wrong? Are other people finding this as well?

Thank you in advance!

Edit: Second computer is at a different house, if that matters.

You might try using separate addresses to try and isolate the problem. If you have two 180GH miners and they are both pointing to the same node with the same address, you should see a 360GH hash rate being reported.

[silverfern]

Thank you,

I think that might be the problem. They might not be doing the same thing at the moment. Its also frustrating, since i'm new to this i'm trying to visit as many websites as possible so I don't have to ask as many silly questions.

Lastly, On a P2pool I was mining the last 24 hours and getting coins sent to my wallet. The coins being sent in was in a parabola curve. Now i'm at "no shares yet" for the last 3 hours. Is that a common thing for a p2pool?

[cr1776]

Hello Guys, I am trying to Merge Mine LiteCoin and FeatherCoin but am getting this error all the time:

2014-02-12 18:25:06.003000 > Error while calling merged getauxblock on http://127.0.0.1:9336:
2014-02-12 18:25:06.033000 > Traceback (most recent call last):
2014-02-12 18:25:06.045000 >   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\defer.py", line 577, in _runCallbacks
2014-02-12 18:25:06.059000 >     current.result = callback(current.result, *args, **kw)
2014-02-12 18:25:06.071000 >   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\defer.py", line 1155, in gotResult
2014-02-12 18:25:06.084000 >     _inlineCallbacks(r, g, deferred)
2014-02-12 18:25:06.097000 >   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\defer.py", line 1097, in _inlineCallbacks
2014-02-12 18:25:06.110000 >     result = result.throwExceptionIntoGenerator(g)
2014-02-12 18:25:06.136000 >   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted\python\failure.py", line 389, in throwExceptionIntoGenerator
2014-02-12 18:25:06.242000 >     return g.throw(self.type, self.value, self.tb)
2014-02-12 18:25:06.253000 > --- <exception caught here> ---
2014-02-12 18:25:06.268000 >   File "C:\Users\Andradek\Documents\GitHub\p2pool-rav\p2pool\util\deferral.py", line 41, in f
2014-02-12 18:25:06.279000 >     result = yield func(*args, **kwargs)
2014-02-12 18:25:06.293000 >   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\defer.py", line 1097, in _inlineCallbacks
2014-02-12 18:25:06.294000 >     result = result.throwExceptionIntoGenerator(g)
2014-02-12 18:25:06.305000 >   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\twisted\python\failure.py", line 389, in throwExceptionIntoGenerator
2014-02-12 18:25:06.319000 >     return g.throw(self.type, self.value, self.tb)
2014-02-12 18:25:06.331000 >   File "C:\Users\Andradek\Documents\GitHub\p2pool-rav\p2pool\util\jsonrpc.py", line 133, in _http_do
2014-02-12 18:25:06.344000 >     raise Error_for_code(resp['error']['code'])(resp['error']['message'], resp['error'].get('data', None))
2014-02-12 18:25:06.371000 > p2pool.util.jsonrpc.NarrowError: -32601 Method not found

Does anyone know how to solve this?

Sorry if this has been answered before but i am lost here! Please Help!

Note: I do not know if those coins are compatible for merged mining so forgive me if i am trying to mine "apples and and oranges" at the same time!

Thank You for you help,

Did you ever get this resolved? 

[roy7]

Thank you,

I think that might be the problem. They might not be doing the same thing at the moment. Its also frustrating, since i'm new to this i'm trying to visit as many websites as possible so I don't have to ask as many silly questions.

Lastly, On a P2pool I was mining the last 24 hours and getting coins sent to my wallet. The coins being sent in was in a parabola curve. Now i'm at "no shares yet" for the last 3 hours. Is that a common thing for a p2pool?

It just depends on your hash power and the difficulty of the coin you are mining. p2pool payments have more variance than traditional pools.

[BTCNU]

Regarding http://bitcoin.advmapper.com:9332/static/

1: How can I tell if people are using my P2Pool node?
2: If I don't mine, is there any reason to host a P2Pool node?
3: My GetBlockTemplate latency is rarely/barely under 1 sec, even with just P2Pool and Bitcoind running. Why? CPU usage is almost nothing, disks are SSDs and there appears to be no swapping happening.
4: How do people find a P2Pool node to use, and what kinds of things helps them make the decision about which is best for them?
5: Is the P2Pool network hurting for nodes, or is there a surplus of nodes and it's just miners that are missing?

[cr1776]

Regarding http://bitcoin.advmapper.com:9332/static/

1: How can I tell if people are using my P2Pool node?
2: If I don't mine, is there any reason to host a P2Pool node?
3: My GetBlockTemplate latency is rarely/barely under 1 sec, even with just P2Pool and Bitcoind running. Why? CPU usage is almost nothing, disks are SSDs and there appears to be no swapping happening.
4: How do people find a P2Pool node to use, and what kinds of things helps them make the decision about which is best for them?
5: Is the P2Pool network hurting for nodes, or is there a surplus of nodes and it's just miners that are missing?

Hi,
1. If you look at the "Local rate"  on the link to your static page, you see 0.00H/s right now, so no one is using it yet.
2. You are running bitcoind, so that helps the bitcoin network, as far as p2pool, it helps provide redundancy.  Likewise, more nodes help p2pool so that block that are found propagate faster and reduce the chance of p2pool blocks becoming orphans.
3. You might point a miner to it and see if it shows the same information when someone is mining on it.  Otherwise, I would just be guessing.
4. Usually from lists or posts, I think.  Latency, reliability, those would be two criteria I would think are important.
5. The number of miners is lower than one would hope at the moment.  I think the number of nodes is okay, but it doesn't hurt to have more (see #2).


That is my quick take on the questions you asked.

:-)