Benchmark [P2Pool vs btcGuild vs Eligius]

[jedimstr]

Thank you for running and sharing this benchmark semaster.

Are you including the donations made to p2pool miners in your numbers, or only generation transactions?

Again, thanks, really great to see this!

donation amount is to the developer and you can modify that setting.    p2pool does give an extra... .5%? or something like that to the block solver, but over time that'd average out...

No I think windpath is referring to the direct to miners donation functionality of p2pool.  See here for a good UI on top of it: http://blisterpool.com/p2pdonate

We've received quite a few generous donations since hunter made that page and publicized it on Reddit and on the forums here.  The function was always available in p2pool but was rarely used until hunter made the web frontend for it and it got some publicity during one of the 51% panics for GHash on Reddit.  It's tapered down a bit since, but I still get a cut of the donations once in awhile.

[windpath]

Thank you for running and sharing this benchmark semaster.

Are you including the donations made to p2pool miners in your numbers, or only generation transactions?

Again, thanks, really great to see this!

donation amount is to the developer and you can modify that setting.    p2pool does give an extra... .5%? or something like that to the block solver, but over time that'd average out...

That is not what I'm talking about, I'm talking about people using /patron_sendmany to donate to miners, while I have never had what I would call a "substantial" donation, I have had MANY small ones....

Edit: Blisterpool, mentioned above, is a web front end to /patron_sendmany, the only public one I know of, great tool!

To get an idea of what kind of BTC I'm talking about take a look at the following address, it is mine, and has been on my p2pool node since I started it (5/2/14). The only payments received by this address have been mined coins from p2pool, and donations sent to p2pool miners.

http://minefast.coincadence.com/miner.php?id=19vXrwKGUhK4cCU8tA4kWZgbChcmh9a6qj

Mined coins paid out from p2pool: 2.82620178
p2pool Blocks paid in: 77

https://blockchain.info/address/19vXrwKGUhK4cCU8tA4kWZgbChcmh9a6qj

Total received: 2.8343565
Transactions: 149

So...

Number of donations where I reached the minimum payout since 5/2/14 = 72
Total extra BTC received: 0.00815472, a little over $5 right now...

[Atomar]

I like to try the Elizium p2pool Server with my S3.

Are those Settings correct??:

stratum+tcp://elizium.name:9332
"MyAddress"
Pass: 12345

OR do I use: stratum+tcp://stratum.elizium.name:9332

Thanks

[jgarcia]

I like to try the Elizium p2pool Server with my S3.

Are those Settings correct??:

stratum+tcp://elizium.name:9332
"MyAddress"
Pass: 12345

OR do I use: stratum+tcp://stratum.elizium.name:9332

Thanks

Did you figure it out? I want to use a p2pool when mine arrives.

[Atomar]

I use stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 and it seems to work.
Get some states on the pool site so it must work

[jonnybravo0311]

I use stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 and it seems to work.
Get some states on the pool site so it must work

That's not elizium, that's Eligius - a completely different pool.  Elizium is just one of countless p2pool nodes available.  Eligius is a pool run by wizkid.

If you're going to mine on p2pool, make sure you find a node that's close to you.  Ideally you'd like to run your own node; however, that isn't always a possibility, so mining on a public node that is close to you is the next best thing.

[Atomar]

You're right! That's the wrong one. Checked on my S3. Eligius is my 2nd pool for Failover.

Here's what I have: stratum+tcp://elizium.name:9332

[jonnybravo0311]

You're right! That's the wrong one. Checked on my S3. Eligius is my 2nd pool for Failover.

Here's what I have: stratum+tcp://elizium.name:9332

Yup, that's the one that will connect you to the Elizium p2pool node.

[Atomar]

Question:
1: What does the number mean: "-Mean: 3.99mBTC" ? Hashing with ~440Gh/s right now.
2: Are the 3.99mBTC "good"?
3: And how do I see if and how much I was getting payed ?

Would be nice to get more Information on the userstat page though!

[jonnybravo0311]

Question:
1: What does the number mean: "-Mean: 3.99mBTC" ? Hashing with ~440Gh/s right now.
2: Are the 3.99mBTC "good"?
3: And how do I see if and how much I was getting payed ?

Would be nice to get more Information on the userstat page though!

1) It's the statistical mean of your expected payout over the plotted range of the graph
2) Depends on what you mean by "good".
3) Use a different UI

Use a different UI - there are plenty of them out there, and they usually all will provide you more information than the stock one does.

[Atomar]

OK. Thanks for all the info!

[fire000]

Question:
1: What does the number mean: "-Mean: 3.99mBTC" ? Hashing with ~440Gh/s right now.
2: Are the 3.99mBTC "good"?
3: And how do I see if and how much I was getting payed ?

Would be nice to get more Information on the userstat page though!

I found this site very handy for the payment side when I use to use p2pools  http://p2pool.info/   on that site it will list all block finds tells ya the strike rate etc.     the network hash rate rd time etc....     Now there is few tabs on there just under the where the pool hash rate is labelled  recent block,,,,   current payouts and active users  


If you click the tab called current payouts it will list all the payout address that have a share or shares in the current block what ya do on there is look for your address and that will show ya expected payout if the block was hit now......     Now a tip on that page when ya find ya payout address you will notice there a star next to it click on the star and it will change from white to yellow and also highlight the address by highlighting the background around the address....    By doing this it make it very easy to find ya address every time ya go to that page as it remembers the setting of the mark star so all  ya have to do when looking at that page after the 1st visit and marking that star is look for the highlighted address ya marked rather than go through all the address again to find yours

[fire000]

Also just a tip on that page listed above or warning lol    it play a stupid sound at times to turn that off look at the top right of the page there a settings tab there and that alllows ya to turn that sound off

[Atomar]

Very nice! Just tryed it out and saved it in my bookmark :-)

Can you tell me please ho to Setup this pool?: http://254-76.198-178.cust.bluewin.ch:9332/static/
Is that a privat one? If I add this address and my BTC address, I get allot Disc. and just a few Acc.

There is no Setup info on that page ...

[fire000]

Very nice! Just tryed it out and saved it in my bookmark :-)

Can you tell me please ho to Setup this pool?: http://254-76.198-178.cust.bluewin.ch:9332/static/
Is that a privat one? If I add this address and my BTC address, I get allot Disc. and just a few Acc.

There is no Setup info on that page ...

right you are on an ant aminer right if so do this

in pool put this 254-76.198-178.cust.bluewin.ch:9332    (sry drop the static part as it does not need to be there)

user :    your BTC address
password :   anything   (as it does not use it)   but I found some miners need something there or they do not connect if left blank

[Atomar]

OK. I gonna try that.
I was trying on my X-1 when I got all the disc. But will try on my S3.

Thanks!

[felipeblvieira]

Thanks for the updates, for sure will help to choose better a mining pool in future.

Anyone with news from recent pools that have different methods into distribution of coins that worth giving a look ??

[PatMan]

That was some month for p2pool  

For reference - despite what the poster above says, p2pool.info has not worked properly since forrestv took ownership of it some time ago, the stats are inaccurate, it does not show all blocks found & the user count is wrong - even when it's working. Currently the only accurate stats page is:

http://minefast.coincadence.com/p2pool-stats.php

Kudos to coincadence for the hard work in putting it together & providing the community with a working page.  

[semaster]

15-31 Aug 2014:     p2pool - BTC0.2996VS btcguild (PPLNS) - BTC0.3578 VS Eligius BTC0.3613


Total from 1 Feb 2014: p2pool - BTC16.363 VS btcguild (PPLNS) - BTC15.2718 VS Eligius BTC14.8946

[nocroom]

15-31 Aug 2014:     p2pool - BTC0.2996VS btcguild (PPLNS) - BTC0.3578 VS Eligius BTC0.3613


Total from 1 Feb 2014: p2pool - BTC16.363 VS btcguild (PPLNS) - BTC15.2718 VS Eligius BTC14.8946

any way you can add slush pool ?