I am testing this pool and it is accepting some shares however I am not getting paid. Neither it shows my address in the list.
Any idea?
crafty, you're probably getting confused, as some others have, with pseudo-share and real shares. You're only paid for real shares, not the low difficulty pseudo-shares which are use to help display your graphs and report your hashrate. Please see the bitcoin p2pool wiki at
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool , in particular...
Q: Why does my miner say it has found a lot of shares but p2pool say I have only found a few?!
A: The real P2Pool difficulty is hundreds of times higher than on normal pools, but p2pool essentially lies to your miner and tells it to work on relatively easy shares so that it submits shares every few seconds instead of every few hours. P2Pool then ignores any submitted shares that don't match the real share difficulty. By doing this, P2Pool can more accurately report your local hash rate and you can see if you are having problems with too many stale shares quickly
I have a question pertaining to IFC pool mining but have a feeling it pertains to other mining as well. When I try to begin my pool mining I get the error " ....make sure you have the minerd executable and libraries in the same directory as infinitecoin-qt". What does this mean, and how do I fix it?
I am a noob to cryptocurrancy mining and I am not a programer, the only coding a still remember is html.
Thank you for any help.
JBullFrog, your minerd program seems to want to be in the same folder as your Infinitecoin program.
Infinitecoin-qt is just your main infinitecoin program (the one that you run to view your wallet, and use to send and to receive coins etc). Locate the folder on our computer where that Infitecoin program is. We'll call this your "Infinitecoin program folder"
Then locate where your minerd program is. We'll call this your "minerd program folder".
Copy (or move) your minerd program and also any .dll files from your "minerd program folder" to your to "Infinitecoin program folder" (If you can't see any .dll fils in your "minerd program folder" you may need to change your folder viewing options to allow hidden files)
You should then be good to go.
Im mining with 650kh/s about 30 minutes and any payout. Someone know what's happening?
peb0t , share difficulty for the pool, as shown on
http://treasurequarry.com:9844/static/ is currently 0.311 as I write this. Share difficulty rises and falls depending on the total pool hashrate. On Wednesday when you wrote your post the total pool hashratte was a bit lower so lets estimate a share difficulty of 0.25 then.
Based on 0.25 share difficulty and 650kh/s the calculator at coinwarz estimates that you'd find one share in about 0.02 days (or 0.48 hours). As it says on that page, this "can vary greatly depending on your luck".
To allow your luck to balance out you'd need to look at a longer timescale than just half an hour's mining. Think of it like tossing a coin. On average you'd get heads one out of 2 throws but often you can do 2 throws and get 2 tails. Over the longer time though your coin tosses average out to 1 in 2 heads.
Was mining here and earned 8000 in a few short hours, then the payments just stopped... What gives? I was finding plenty of shares too..
toasterthegamer, the way that p2pool works is that once you find a share you start getting payments when p2pool next finds a block. Payments then continue to be made to you when subsequent blocks are found by the pool until that share runs out.
To start getting another run of payments you need to find another share. How long this takes depends on the pool's share difficulty, your hashrate, luck and whether you're mining contantly at a constant hashrate or on-and-off.
I've added a bit to the first post in this thread by the way, reminding people to give their mining address and the hashrate reported by their miner when asking questions regarding to their mining. This would really be appreciated as it really helps give more specific answers.
