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

[norgan]

This shows how to pay to the pool:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool#Donating_to_P2Pool_miners

I haven't done it yet, but I will soon... since the last block was mine!!  One of my ants found a 23billion share.

M

Yeah that's easy enough but how do you calculate and track that for the alt coins? Do you just trade them all then send the BTC value to the pool?
How would you send the actual alt coins to miners on your node?

[mdude77]

This shows how to pay to the pool:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool#Donating_to_P2Pool_miners

I haven't done it yet, but I will soon... since the last block was mine!!  One of my ants found a 23billion share.

M

Yeah that's easy enough but how do you calculate and track that for the alt coins? Do you just trade them all then send the BTC value to the pool?
How would you send the actual alt coins to miners on your node?

I'll just trade them and send the BTC value to the pool.

The alt coins are mined on the node.  Once they mature, I'll send them off to an exchange, convert them, send them a dedicated BTC address, and then pay out to the pool.

M

[jonnybravo0311]

mdude77 congrats on finding that block

[windpath]

How does P2Pool handle log file management as far as size/time goes?

In a short time my log has grown to 83.9MB, is their a point where it is truncated or will it just keep growing?

Hoping someone can give me some insight on this

[jonnybravo0311]

How does P2Pool handle log file management as far as size/time goes?

In a short time my log has grown to 83.9MB, is their a point where it is truncated or will it just keep growing?

Hoping someone can give me some insight on this

If I'm reading the code correctly, it should top out at 100MB.

[windpath]

How does P2Pool handle log file management as far as size/time goes?

In a short time my log has grown to 83.9MB, is their a point where it is truncated or will it just keep growing?

Hoping someone can give me some insight on this

If I'm reading the code correctly, it should top out at 100MB.

Thank you, I'll keep an eye on it.

[mdude77]

To help other p2pool ops that may be interested in sharing their merged mining income, I have dedicated addresses you can send to that I'll then convert to BTC and feed back into the pool:

DVC: 1f56VqR9ajX3K42qSaDezvKXFmruSDg1B
IXC: xaNQ54gxowcwHyxqGtFM4vwCfS84V6fmKF
NMC: N1XhWNmvGhFL145zmQGQv7Vug6mThNh1iQ

M

[windpath]

So the ultimate custom dashboard quest continues....  

Added "Recent Shares Found For This Node", the most recent 20 shares are displayed [Age-Miner-Share].

It's at the bottom of the page:

http://mining.coincadence.com/

I'll add an ajax updater once I get the rest of the data I want on the page (so I only have to do it once).

What do you think?

edit: adding the last 10(?) blocks is next, hate it when there is no "recent blocks" data displayed

[jonnybravo0311]

So the ultimate custom dashboard quest continues....  

Added "Recent Shares Found For This Node", the most recent 20 shares are displayed [Age-Miner-Share].

It's at the bottom of the page:

http://mining.coincadence.com/

I'll add an ajax updater once I get the rest of the data I want on the page (so I only have to do it once).

What do you think?

edit: adding the last 10(?) blocks is next, hate it when there is no "recent blocks" data displayed

Looking good.

Edit: I should probably at least make an effort to provide some kind of feedback other than it is looking good.  Now that you've listed the shares, perhaps link them to a "share details" page that might give more information about the share itself.  Things like share minimum difficulty, actual difficulty the miner hit to solve it, etc.  Or, maybe instead of just listing out the last X shares, provide a "best share by active miner".  You could even incorporate that into the "Active Miners" table.

As a miner, I'm interested in both how the node is doing overall, and how my individual miner is doing in relation to the node.  Sure, the node found 20 shares, how many of them were mine?  What was my best share?  This is what I've been working on with my node.

[windpath]

So the ultimate custom dashboard quest continues....  

Added "Recent Shares Found For This Node", the most recent 20 shares are displayed [Age-Miner-Share].

It's at the bottom of the page:

http://mining.coincadence.com/

I'll add an ajax updater once I get the rest of the data I want on the page (so I only have to do it once).

What do you think?

edit: adding the last 10(?) blocks is next, hate it when there is no "recent blocks" data displayed

Looking good.

Edit: I should probably at least make an effort to provide some kind of feedback other than it is looking good.  Now that you've listed the shares, perhaps link them to a "share details" page that might give more information about the share itself.  Things like share minimum difficulty, actual difficulty the miner hit to solve it, etc.  Or, maybe instead of just listing out the last X shares, provide a "best share by active miner".  You could even incorporate that into the "Active Miners" table.

As a miner, I'm interested in both how the node is doing overall, and how my individual miner is doing in relation to the node.  Sure, the node found 20 shares, how many of them were mine?  What was my best share?  This is what I've been working on with my node.

Great feedback, thanks. I'll look into adding share count and best share to active miners and linking the share to a details page.

[Polyatomic]

This shows how to pay to the pool:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool#Donating_to_P2Pool_miners

I haven't done it yet, but I will soon... since the last block was mine!!  One of my ants found a 23billion share.

M

Yeah that's easy enough but how do you calculate and track that for the alt coins? Do you just trade them all then send the BTC value to the pool?
How would you send the actual alt coins to miners on your node?

I'll just trade them and send the BTC value to the pool.

The alt coins are mined on the node.  Once they mature, I'll send them off to an exchange, convert them, send them a dedicated BTC address, and then pay out to the pool.

M

23G cool man.

[norgan]

To help other p2pool ops that may be interested in sharing their merged mining income, I have dedicated addresses you can send to that I'll then convert to BTC and feed back into the pool:

DVC: 1f56VqR9ajX3K42qSaDezvKXFmruSDg1B
IXC: xaNQ54gxowcwHyxqGtFM4vwCfS84V6fmKF
NMC: N1XhWNmvGhFL145zmQGQv7Vug6mThNh1iQ

M

nice, i'll look into this.

[norgan]

interesting issue...

The following two pages are in different directories and have different header logos as well as some minor text differences.

http://pool.norgzpool.net.au:9332
http://pool.norgzpool.net.au:9327

They both show the right dynamic data (graphs and lookups of coin type etc) but they are not using the separate logos and html somehow. probably a quirk with the http server but trying to figure out why this is.

I've tried a different browser (with no cached page) and still no go.

btw any feedback on the pages would be very welcome. I've spent a couple of day on them now.

EDIT: OK I figured it out. it's using the same HTML code. How do you make the instances of p2pool use different html (or at least different logo)?

[ceslick]

Noob question here...

If I set up merged mining, how will my miners get those coins if they only connecting using a BTC address as there username?

[bitpop]

Noob question here...

If I set up merged mining, how will my miners get those coins if they only connecting using a BTC address as there username?

They don't

Good info on this page above

[norgan]

Noob question here...

If I set up merged mining, how will my miners get those coins if they only connecting using a BTC address as there username?

They don't

Good info on this page above

So far it would be a manual track. Mdude has come up with a great idea to just pay the merged coins back to the pool once converted. He has even set up some generic wallets to do to, read back a few posts and you'll see our convo on it.

[mdude77]

Despite the fact that I'm still the only one on my node, I just divvied out the funds.  I had to set the threshold pretty low otherwise only about 6 addresses would get anything.  Most users (myself included) got about dust, and who knows long it'll take to confirm, but it's something.

Now if more ops would do this it would add up to something.

2a8dda6727186bce7a44d10b66cdca4287fdca5b6f47b39fb374bd54bbb7c748

M

[smooth]

To help other p2pool ops that may be interested in sharing their merged mining income, I have dedicated addresses you can send to that I'll then convert to BTC and feed back into the pool:

DVC: 1f56VqR9ajX3K42qSaDezvKXFmruSDg1B
IXC: xaNQ54gxowcwHyxqGtFM4vwCfS84V6fmKF
NMC: N1XhWNmvGhFL145zmQGQv7Vug6mThNh1iQ

M

Awesome idea. I never bothered to set up merged mining but I will do it now and send to your addresses.

[jonnybravo0311]

Noob question here...

If I set up merged mining, how will my miners get those coins if they only connecting using a BTC address as there username?

Check out my post here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.msg6422359#msg6422359

That should give you everything you need to know.

[jonnybravo0311]

I recently started seeing these errors in my p2pool log - and I've never seen them in the previous month of running a node:

Code:

2014-05-07 14:46:06.075862 > Error in DeferredResource handler:
2014-05-07 14:46:06.075960 > Traceback (most recent call last):
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076005 >   File "/Users/jonnybravo/Mining/p2pool/p2pool/util/deferred_resource.py", line 24, in render
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076043 >     defer.maybeDeferred(resource.Resource.render, self, request).addCallbacks(finish, finish_error)
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076080 >   File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 134, in maybeDeferred
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076116 >     result = f(*args, **kw)
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076151 >   File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/web/resource.py", line 216, in render
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076187 >     return m(request)
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076226 >   File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 1187, in unwindGenerator
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076252 >     return _inlineCallbacks(None, gen, Deferred())
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076277 > --- <exception caught here> ---
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076301 >   File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 1045, in _inlineCallbacks
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076348 >     result = g.send(result)
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076376 >   File "/Users/jonnybravo/Mining/p2pool/p2pool/web.py", line 189, in render_GET
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076402 >     res = yield self.func(*self.args)
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076426 >   File "/Users/jonnybravo/Mining/p2pool/p2pool/web.py", line 320, in <lambda>
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076451 >     new_root.putChild('share', WebInterface(lambda share_hash_str: get_share(share_hash_str)))
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076474 >   File "/Users/jonnybravo/Mining/p2pool/p2pool/web.py", line 276, in get_share
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076498 >     if int(share_hash_str, 16) not in node.tracker.items:
2014-05-07 14:46:06.076523 > exceptions.ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 16: 'undefined'

Anyone offer some advice on what's going on here?

I've got the latest version of forrestv's p2pool software from github, and like I said, I only started seeing this error today.

EDIT: I'm not sure what, if any, effect it's having, since it appears my miners are still hashing away properly.  The S1s each show a very high Accept:Reject ratio and hardware errors are about 0.1%