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November 24, 2014, 02:29:53 AM |
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And the way they describe it, with their typical ambiguity, implies it's not compatible with the p2pool chain anyhow.
Yeah, I'm not sure it works at all tbh - but at least they open sourced the code The code released does work with the P2Pool chain. All it does is: - force all miners to mine on AntPool default address
- implements a database to track miners
These allow AntPool to run a sub-pool. But they are not necessary. NastyPool implements a sub-pool without changing P2Pool code. NastyPool allows miners to decide themselves if they want to use the sub-pool address (by adding -PoP to the username). NastyPool uses existing hooks in P2Pool software to track miners. That's a double edged sword. It means p2pool block time is going to decrease. It also means share difficulty is going to double or triple. And lastly .. I thought I read you don't get transaction fees if you use AntPool? Seems to me there are more downsides than upsides there. M
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mahrens917
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November 24, 2014, 04:13:26 AM |
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Using Amazon AWS I have two p2pool servers that cover their costs with merge mining, us-east.p2pool.co and europe.p2pool.co. If anyone can guarantee a minimum 15 Th/s I can open up a new node in the following areas for them:
* Oregon * California * Eastern Europe * Singapore * Tokyo * Sydney * Sao Paulo
Just PM me.
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mahrens917
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November 24, 2014, 04:16:31 AM |
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Speaking of merged mining, I merge mine namecoin. I know there are many other coins out there that can be merged mined such as Devcoins, IXcoins and I0coins; however, is the money they bring in even make it worth the time to set them up?
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jonnybravo0311
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November 24, 2014, 05:04:04 PM |
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Speaking of merged mining, I merge mine namecoin. I know there are many other coins out there that can be merged mined such as Devcoins, IXcoins and I0coins; however, is the money they bring in even make it worth the time to set them up?
The setup time is pretty minimal. Download and install the wallet, sync the blockchain and edit the p2pool startup. As for the other merged coins values... pretty much worthless. For example, if you hit a block of DVC (5000 coins) you might see 0.0004 BTC for the lot of them. IXC mining is done, so even if you hit a block, you don't get any coins for it. At this point, and somebody please add any I've missed, here are coins you can merge mine and my thoughts: - NMC - block of 50 will get you about 0.12BTC. Pretty much the only coin worth merging.
- DVC - block of 5000 will get you about 0.0004BTC. About worthless.
- IXC - no more minted coins as mining is done
- I0C - maybe 0.000016 per coin? 1.5 coins per found block currently.
- FSC - coin has been dead in the water for months. I've got like 2.5 million of them... anyone want to buy?
- HUC - I don't merge mine these as the client is a resource hog. Anyone currently mining them?
Hope this helps you make your decision.
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November 24, 2014, 07:39:37 PM |
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I'm still trying to understand the pseudo shares. If they're just busy work to make stats look good, and I don't care about what my stats look like, do I need them at all? Seems like the busy work would generate unnecessary heat for my miners? What happens if I set the pseudo share difficulty to some really high number? How can I see what real work my miners are doing?
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November 24, 2014, 07:57:10 PM |
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I'm still trying to understand the pseudo shares. If they're just busy work to make stats look good, and I don't care about what my stats look like, do I need them at all? Seems like the busy work would generate unnecessary heat for my miners? What happens if I set the pseudo share difficulty to some really high number? How can I see what real work my miners are doing?
Pseudo shares are just for stats and they will not effect your earnings in any way, nor will they generate heat or additional work for your miners. Only P2Pool shares matter. Since P2Pool shares are much higher difficulty than a typical pool's shares, that causes quite a bit of variance on payouts and makes estimating your "real work" (actual hashrate) difficult. Again, these problems are magnified for smaller miners and that is why the NastyPoP payout system was created. If you'd like a visual representation of how often you could expect P2Pool shares to be accepted based on different hashrates, you can see in the NastyPool miner charts just how often miners submit an accepted P2Pool share by the green lines on the charts. You can see it is currently quite common for someone with 1TH/s to go a day or more without submitting an accepted P2Pool share.
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jonnybravo0311
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November 24, 2014, 08:19:39 PM |
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I'm still trying to understand the pseudo shares. If they're just busy work to make stats look good, and I don't care about what my stats look like, do I need them at all? Seems like the busy work would generate unnecessary heat for my miners? What happens if I set the pseudo share difficulty to some really high number? How can I see what real work my miners are doing?
As OgNasty stated, the pseudo shares don't have any value except to make your stats look nicer. They aren't adding work to your miner, since your miner is solving difficulty 1 hashes anyway. The best place to see the actual work your miners are doing is on the miner itself. The only suffering is by the node you're mining on since if you set the pseudo difficulty too low, you flood the node with useless data. You can also set your share difficulty via the "/" parameter. That actually does do something, as long as you set it to a value higher than the current share difficulty of p2pool. Unless you're running a couple hundred terra hash, you probably don't want to bother with that one either.
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November 24, 2014, 08:22:54 PM |
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How does giving a chip more work not create more heat? Even if all the heat is from running idle at clock speed, I could see a custom scenario where you could send api calls to the miners to adjust their clock based on whether they're getting real or fake work. What percentage of work is real versus fake?
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jonnybravo0311
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November 24, 2014, 08:25:54 PM |
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How does giving a chip more work not create more heat? Even if all the heat is from running idle at clock speed, I could see a custom scenario where you could send api calls to the miners to adjust their clock based on whether they're getting real or fake work. What percentage of work is real versus fake?
You aren't giving the chip more work. The miner solves difficulty 1 shares. The miner has no idea whatsoever if the work is "real" or "fake". It just knows it has work to do.
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PatMan
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November 24, 2014, 08:29:16 PM |
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- HUC - I don't merge mine these as the client is a resource hog. Anyone currently mining them?
I mine them. domob has made some excellent improvements on HUC lately, some kind of "pruning" in the code has made it much less of a resource hog - it's now one of the best performing coin daemons I have running, bitcoind being the worst....
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November 24, 2014, 08:30:50 PM |
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- HUC - I don't merge mine these as the client is a resource hog. Anyone currently mining them?
I mine them. domob has made some excellent improvements on HUC lately, some kind of "pruning" in the code has made it much less of a resource hog - it's now one of the best performing coin daemons I have running, bitcoind being the worst.... Oh yeah? I might have to give them a try again, then. They worth anything on the exchanges?
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November 24, 2014, 08:37:09 PM |
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How does giving a chip more work not create more heat? Even if all the heat is from running idle at clock speed, I could see a custom scenario where you could send api calls to the miners to adjust their clock based on whether they're getting real or fake work. What percentage of work is real versus fake?
You aren't giving the chip more work. The miner solves difficulty 1 shares. The miner has no idea whatsoever if the work is "real" or "fake". It just knows it has work to do. I'm not going to pretend to have the best understanding of this so, please correct me if I'm wrong, but, I thought you had to give the mining hardware a chunk of work for it to process anything. Are you saying that if I have a completely unconfigured miner it will be making up it's own work and trying to solve it? I can see that the hashing chips wouldn't know the difference but, if my local p2pool node knows the difference, it could also know to tell the mining hardware to speed up or speed down.
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PatMan
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November 24, 2014, 08:38:22 PM |
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- HUC - I don't merge mine these as the client is a resource hog. Anyone currently mining them?
I mine them. domob has made some excellent improvements on HUC lately, some kind of "pruning" in the code has made it much less of a resource hog - it's now one of the best performing coin daemons I have running, bitcoind being the worst.... Oh yeah? I might have to give them a try again, then. They worth anything on the exchanges? I've not looked tbh - just piling them up......
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November 24, 2014, 09:04:50 PM |
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Looks like p2pool miners just gout the first donation we have received in a while
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jonnybravo0311
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November 24, 2014, 09:08:59 PM |
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How does giving a chip more work not create more heat? Even if all the heat is from running idle at clock speed, I could see a custom scenario where you could send api calls to the miners to adjust their clock based on whether they're getting real or fake work. What percentage of work is real versus fake?
You aren't giving the chip more work. The miner solves difficulty 1 shares. The miner has no idea whatsoever if the work is "real" or "fake". It just knows it has work to do. I'm not going to pretend to have the best understanding of this so, please correct me if I'm wrong, but, I thought you had to give the mining hardware a chunk of work for it to process anything. Are you saying that if I have a completely unconfigured miner it will be making up it's own work and trying to solve it? I can see that the hashing chips wouldn't know the difference but, if my local p2pool node knows the difference, it could also know to tell the mining hardware to speed up or speed down. You do give the hardware a chunk of work to process. Basically you say, "create a block from this set of data". If you have a 1TH/s miner, the miner will apply one trillion hashes per second to that data set. If your miners aren't configured to any pool, or coin daemon, they sit idle since they have no work to do. The mining software and the pool determine which of those results to actually submit.
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November 24, 2014, 09:09:48 PM |
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Looks like p2pool miners just gout the first donation we have received in a while You're welcome. I sent the donation - hit a block of NMC/DVC, converted to BTC and donated to everyone.
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November 24, 2014, 09:17:11 PM |
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How does giving a chip more work not create more heat? Even if all the heat is from running idle at clock speed, I could see a custom scenario where you could send api calls to the miners to adjust their clock based on whether they're getting real or fake work. What percentage of work is real versus fake?
You aren't giving the chip more work. The miner solves difficulty 1 shares. The miner has no idea whatsoever if the work is "real" or "fake". It just knows it has work to do. I'm not going to pretend to have the best understanding of this so, please correct me if I'm wrong, but, I thought you had to give the mining hardware a chunk of work for it to process anything. Are you saying that if I have a completely unconfigured miner it will be making up it's own work and trying to solve it? I can see that the hashing chips wouldn't know the difference but, if my local p2pool node knows the difference, it could also know to tell the mining hardware to speed up or speed down. You're confusing "results" with "work". The work is always the same. The diff you're configuring is telling the miner what results it's interested in.
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November 24, 2014, 09:46:48 PM |
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Looks like p2pool miners just gout the first donation we have received in a while You're welcome. I sent the donation - hit a block of NMC/DVC, converted to BTC and donated to everyone. Thanks! It is good to be a p2pool miner.
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November 24, 2014, 09:56:11 PM |
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Looks like p2pool miners just gout the first donation we have received in a while You're welcome. I sent the donation - hit a block of NMC/DVC, converted to BTC and donated to everyone. Nice one! Was thinking last week I had not seen a donation in a while
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November 25, 2014, 12:36:44 AM |
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Looks like p2pool miners just gout the first donation we have received in a while You're welcome. I sent the donation - hit a block of NMC/DVC, converted to BTC and donated to everyone. Thanks!
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