[ANN][DGC][WDC][CRC][CSC][P2Pool] xPool.net

[CartmanSPC]

Thanks for the heads up. The pool was down. It is a bug that was introduced with version 13.3 of p2pool that I thought was addressed with a recent patch. Apparently it is still an issue.

To reduce DOA on Casinocoin you may want to try: --queue 0 --scan-time 1 --expiry 1
I think minerd only supports the --scan-time flag though.

[murderouskirk]

Hello,

So I've been mining CSC for a couple days now over at xpool. Whenever I'm mining I see myself as an active miner, but I find myself randomly dropping off the current payout list and not getting paid for hours at a time. Last night when I was sleeping I lost like 6 hours of mining (last payout at 2:26AM, now (9:00AM). Sometimes when I restart everything I start getting paid again but not always (still not back on the list this morning). Any idea what the issue is?

This is me if it helps. CLEqizar7PHgm7QcXRqu1nSgwjA6Rf9nqG

Thanks.

Edit* Payments started flowing again at 9:28

[CartmanSPC]

Hi murderouskirk,

Thanks for mining on the pool! The hour graph shows that you have a mean of 18.3 Kh/s. Your miner needs to contribute a valid share to be included in the payout. With the pool at 25 Mh/s there may be long periods of time where your not able to contribute a valid share.

[murderouskirk]

Hi murderouskirk,

Thanks for mining on the pool! The hour graph shows that you have a mean of 18.3 Kh/s. Your miner needs to contribute a valid share to be included in the payout. With the pool at 25 Mh/s there may be long periods of time where your not able to contribute a valid share.

I'm still submitting shares during down time, is it just that my shares aren't big enough to be considered valid? At what point is an accepted share considered valid or invalid?

Thanks for the feedback.

[CartmanSPC]

p2pool gives your miner what they call pseudo shares to keep it busy (and so you can see if it's working correctly). It will provide a real share (the ones that count towards a payout) as they become available but I am not sure how it decides who to give them to :/

[murderouskirk]

p2pool gives your miner what they call pseudo shares to keep it busy (and so you can see if it's working correctly). It will provide a real share (the ones that count towards a payout) as they become available but I am not sure how it decides who to give them to :/

So it sounds like I'm just getting beat to the shares when the pool is really strong. Fair enough, I wasn't expecting big payouts with my little mining operation. Good to know that's how it works and it's not a technical bug or complication or something. Thanks for your help!

Edit* I tried lowering my difficulty a little thinking maybe more shares would increase my odds for a real share. Payments resumed shortly after, maybe it was the difficulty change. Not certain but maybe. Just in case anyone has the same problem in the future.

[Hippie Tech]

p2pool gives your miner what they call pseudo shares to keep it busy (and so you can see if it's working correctly). It will provide a real share (the ones that count towards a payout) as they become available but I am not sure how it decides who to give them to :/

So it sounds like I'm just getting beat to the shares when the pool is really strong. Fair enough, I wasn't expecting big payouts with my little mining operation. Good to know that's how it works and it's not a technical bug or complication or something. Thanks for your help!

Edit* I tried lowering my difficulty a little thinking maybe more shares would increase my odds for a real share. Payments resumed shortly after, maybe it was the difficulty change. Not certain but maybe. Just in case anyone has the same problem in the future.

No man.. its not like that at all. You deserve and will recieve proper payment/ credit for every share submitted if you try any other scrypt pool.

You'll likely make double during the same time period.

If he's not the same dude, cartman is spewing the same garbage seen coming from treasurescammer and his p2p ifc pool.

[CartmanSPC]

The great thing about p2pools is that you don't have to trust the pool operator. It is completely open source and you are welcome to open up your own node:

https://github.com/CartmanSPC/p2pool

I encourage anyone to open their own nodes as it makes the p2pool that much better.

[CartmanSPC]

I am very sad to announce the shutdown of the LTC p2pool.  

There were quite a few reasons that we came to this decision but it was mainly due to the changes of the LTC p2pool source to reduce "dust". On top of the increased network hashrate, resources necessary to run the daemon/pool and limited use we feel it was better to close than have miners with little to no payout for days at a time.

[oliversl]

Hi, the pool is not responding right now, any problems? Thanks

[CartmanSPC]

Hi oliversl,

Which pool? If it is LTC then that was shutdown. CSC is highly overloaded and I am working on getting a new node set up to take up the load.

[mightcoin]

Hi oliversl,

Which pool? If it is LTC then that was shutdown. CSC is highly overloaded and I am working on getting a new node set up to take up the load.

Any news on the CSC pool?  I mined on the pool and still have not received a single coin -- other pools seems to work.

[jarvis]

Were are all my coins? I mined for a long time with 13,000 kh's + and got very few coins. we mined for 1 hour on another pool and received 2x the amount we received from you mining all night in just an hour. Please do fix this and send us our coins.

Our workers/wallets for CSC is,
 
Worker 1: CYY3VzfhbnX1gDQpfHsxeKYNmFSweWEVGU
Worker 2: CdMCkKGXoJsQpaHYiS3t4iWYC7qjemK1Li
worker 3: CbupZ5FL7R2T1PRCjpH9M53N86QqXfUBak4

[CartmanSPC]

Hi Jarvis,

Shows that payments went out for the first two addresses. You can see the amounts in the graphs below. Cant find the third address having mined on either the west or east coast nodes. Looks like about half your hash rate was lost due to rejects. It is very important to tune your miners to p2pool to optimize your payments. The FAQ has some suggestions on how to do this. There is also a forum topic on this subject here on bitcointalk.org: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153232

http://casinocoin.mooo.com/address/CYY3VzfhbnX1gDQpfHsxeKYNmFSweWEVGU (too many records to display)
http://casinocoin.mooo.com/address/CdMCkKGXoJsQpaHYiS3t4iWYC7qjemK1Li

[CartmanSPC]

Digitalcoin wallet daemon updated to V1.1.

More info:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=377466.msg4075883#msg4075883

[yodoberman]

My payouts are are a bit strange, maybe anyone knows what this means. Most blocks i get around 2 csc, then some blocks in between i only get 0.2. So it looks something like this:

incomming trans:

2.113145
2.113145
2.113145
0.211314
2.113145
0.211314

anyone knows?

[Hippie Tech]

My payouts are are a bit strange, maybe anyone knows what this means. Most blocks i get around 2 csc, then some blocks in between i only get 0.2. So it looks something like this:

incomming trans:

2.113145
2.113145
2.113145
0.211314
2.113145
0.211314

anyone knows?

Looks like CSC also has these mystery / hush hush keepin it on the down-low rip off blocks.

I went through the same issues with DGC.

Where did our DGC go ?

Block 512432 looks good --> http://dgc.cryptocoinexplorer.com/block/a7d335f459290baaf19eecefaa7844fa1175bcdefc2bc2a9b93a95e7583ca171

Then 10 minutes later we find another and 90% of the reward is AWOL.

Block 512437 WTF !!! --> http://dgc.cryptocoinexplorer.com/block/19db357e0c8978dd789f588f09cd63ce8713a1bbbe389b135d99576ec7d22133

I am DSF3RQtbPzqX2TukNKinNVHkZBEHTiLyTV. Please return our missing DGC.

Update..

The block explorer your site uses doesn't work.

Cryptocoinexplorer does and the timestamps do not match. Plz explain this aswell.



Update II

90% of the reward is missing again with the newest block, 513163.

http://dgc.cryptocoinexplorer.com/block/e8d3ba245be5cc3a7d811b29c0da6c7e6ba5077eb301c6bbc80ae28827443071

[CartmanSPC]

My payouts are are a bit strange, maybe anyone knows what this means. Most blocks i get around 2 csc, then some blocks in between i only get 0.2. So it looks something like this:

incomming trans:

2.113145
2.113145
2.113145
0.211314
2.113145
0.211314

anyone knows?

I am curious about this as well. It is only seen while solo or p2pool mining. Have noticed it on: DGC, WDC, CRC, CSC

Have been told that it is there to secure the blockchain against attack but have never checked the coin source code to confirm. The coin devs may not know themselves as that part of the code may have been copied from another coin.

If someone could check the coin source code to explain these smaller block payouts that would be great!
It is in the blockchain as the smaller amount so I imagine it would have to be in the coin source code.

I recall a post from hazard back when he was "calling out" the DGC dev that his "protection" of the blockchain with these smaller blocks actually made it easier to attack. I suspect that the DGC dev did not actually create this "protection" as it is also in Worldcoin and I believe that came out before Digitalcoin did.

[Hippie Tech]

I have never seen this while solo'n DGC or any other alt.

Mystery blocks.. pseudo shares.. alternate addys ...

You guys need to be ALOT clearer about the pool's setup and we deserve just compensatoin.

Please shows where/when Hazard made this statement.

[CartmanSPC]

Hippie Tech:

Try searching the forum or his posts. Link here if you find anything.

If you are really curious the source code is freely available for you to check out. You don't need to trust me or any other p2pool node operators.

Just as a reminder P2Pool is decentralized so if one node gets taken down the rest are not affected. There are no accounts or coins stored by the pool. No confirmations to wait for....your coins are sent to you as soon as a block is found. Every block found is simultaneously announced across all the wallets in the P2Pool so there are less orphans encountered.

Again, the source code is freely available for you to start your own P2Pool node that you can keep private or open up for others to use. If you look at the code you will see that very little was changed from the original author (https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool) to support other coins.

You may get some of your questions answered if you ask politely in the main P2Pool thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.0