Mazacoin p2pool closed.

[TreasureSeeker]

The Mazacoin p2pool has now been closed, due to lack of interest from miners (and also p2pool not "playing" too well with Mazacoin as far as I can get it to).  Please try one of TreasureQuarry's more active pools.    

Come bring your mining equipment and dig out some Mazacoins at TreasureQuarry's fun and friendly pool.

(Updated: important whilst the pool is growing, please see the second post in this thread if you're having high reject rate)

It's quick and east to start mining at TreasureQuarry's Mazacoin pool.  The advantages with p2pool include there's no need to "sign up" and no coins are held on the server - they go straight out to miners' wallets as soon as blocks are found.

Just use the following settings for your miner:

Mining address (url) (remember to include the port number after the colon)
http://mazacoin.treasurequarry.com:14477/static/

Username:
A unique address from your Digitalcoin wallet on your computer, for example my  mining address that I use on this pool is MW1ZY9vK1z8Jw4Yi5K5R2LXXVBkQpPJHd7 (don't use this particular address otherwise your earnings will go to me). Please do not use an exchange address or online wallet address.

Password
Anything you like - this is unimportant with P2Pool


So putting it all together, as an example using bfgminer you would use in a simple command line:

bfgminer  -o  http://mazacoin.treasurequarry.com:14477 -u YOURMAZCOINADDRESSHERE -p x

or

bfgminer  -o  stratum+tcp://mazacoin.treasurequarry.com:14477 -u YOURMAZCOINADDRESSHERE -p x



Once you find a share, payments will start going straight to your wallet as soon as the p2pool finds blocks and will continue until that share "runs out" (or will keep going if you find another share before the previous one runs out).   Due to the way p2pool's PPLNS (pay per last N shares) works, the payments may seem to start slow but will then build up to reach a peak and reasonably steady rate.

You can view statistics at http://mazacoin.treasurequarry.com:14477/static/ , and graphs at http://mazacoin.treasurequarry.com:14477/static/graphs.html . Your own graph will show on the graphs page under the heading of your Mazacoin address.

TreasureQuarry's reliable server is based in Dallas, Texas in the USA.


Pool fee is just 1% which you can confirm at any time at  http://mazacoin.treasurequarry.com:14477/fee

Happy mining

[TreasureSeeker]

If you experience a high DOA/reject rate, please try setting a particular share difficulty for your mining by appending the following to your Mazacoin address:

Your hashrate      share difficulty              
1 Gh/s                              /1.1
5 Gh/s                              /5.5
10 Gh/s                            /11
50 G/s                             /55
100 Gh/s                           /110

etc....in other word multiply your hashrate in Gh/s by 1.1 to get your pseudo-share difficulty.

Then append this to your Mazacoin address.  For example if you're mining at 10gh/s with bfgiminer, use:

bfgminer  -o  http://mazacoin.treasurequarry.com:14477 -u YOURMAZCOINADDRESSHERE/11 -p x

Please note there should be no spaces between your Mazacoin address and the /11.

If you still have a high DOA/reject rate, try increasing the share difficulty further until you get a nice low figure for DOAs (ie a high percentage of accepted shares)

[dogepet]

I've been mining this pool several hours and have no results. I don't know what pseudo share anything is. I just use my usual weak mining gpu at 300khash. Is this too low? It works on basic script coins. I have no idea what script difference, if any, maza uses. But nothing is coming from this pool to my wallet.

cudaminer.exe -i 1 -l K7x32 -H 1 -C 1 -o  stratum+tcp://mazacoin.treasurequarry.com:14477 -u MVRECGCZSB9ghKENQx6CEiyLHz8RzqLbGj -p

[Cosmos]

Oh exciting!  First sovereign nation backed crypto is very cool!  Happy to be mining first time p2p =D. 

[peacefulmind]

Oh exciting!  First sovereign nation backed crypto is very cool!  Happy to be mining first time p2p =D. 

I prefer Zimbabwe coin, can we mine that one this pool too?  I hear it is the official legal adopted coin of Zimbabwe - the first legal crypto ever with only 70% premined!

Just take my hashes, please!

[Cosmos]

Oh exciting!  First sovereign nation backed crypto is very cool!  Happy to be mining first time p2p =D. 

I prefer Zimbabwe coin, can we mine that one this pool too?  I hear it is the official legal adopted coin of Zimbabwe - the first legal crypto ever with only 70% premined!

Just take my hashes, please!

Go away troll.

Noticing a bit of rejections while mining.  Any one else seeing same?

[TreasureSeeker]

dogepet, the pool is working on its first block at the moment.  Having said that, you'll find it difficult to get a share at 300kh/s.  What gpu are you using?  Have you tried using bfgminer?

Welcome to the pool, Cosmos.  Whilst p2pool increases in speed from virtually zero sometimes rejections can get high.  We're cruising at a just under 1Th/s at the moment so hopefully rejections should be better now but if you're still getting a high rate please do say.  If you can post your command line or config you're using for mining it may help.

[dogepet]

dogepet, the pool is working on its first block at the moment.  Having said that, you'll find it difficult to get a share at 300kh/s.  What gpu are you using?  Have you tried using bfgminer?

Welcome to the pool, Cosmos.  Whilst p2pool increases in speed from virtually zero sometimes rejections can get high.  We're cruising at a just under 1Th/s at the moment so hopefully rejections should be better now but if you're still getting a high rate please do say.  If you can post your command line or config you're using for mining it may help.

For months I've used cudaminer for GTX670 and get around 300khash. That always got me several thousand coins per hour in early releases of coines (Doge for example). 300khash, while small compared to big miners, could do well with several days of patience. As I said, I could make thousands doge in few hours. But these new coins, such as Maza, everybody seems to be getting much higher hashrates. Hundreds of Mh. 1Mh used to be considered good. What is different? New algorithm for all these coins such as Maza? Why does 300khash not get me thousands of coins on low difficulty anymore?

My setup

cudaminer.exe -i 1 -l K7x32 -H 1 -C 1 -o  stratum+tcp://mazacoin.treasurequarry.com:14477 -u MVRECGCZSB9ghKENQx6CEiyLHz8RzqLbGj -p

[TreasureSeeker]

Yes, Mazacoin does use a different hashing algorithm compared to Dogecoin, Litecoin and most of the newly released smaller coins recently.

Litecoin and Dogecoin (and most of the recent smaller coins) use scrypt hashing, but Mazacoin uses sha-256, which is the same hashing algorithm as Bitcoin. 

According to the Bitcoin hardware comparison page at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison#Graphics_cards you may be able to get 112 Mh/s using your GTX 670. 

[brokendesktop]

are you doing work to the server? its dropped stability on me twice now throwing me to my backup pool in the past 30 min

[TreasureSeeker]

Yes, sorry about that - all done now so should be stable again.

[paniczklos]

Hi could you provide p2pool source ?

[TreasureSeeker]

paniczklos, happy to share if you want to set up a node and pool up together....

Apart from a couple of adjustments to get the "Expected time to share" and "Share difficulty" to display more accurately (which I can post if you're interested), it's standard P2Pool with the following settings:

[Updated, I'm using p2pool version 11.4-31.   You can download p2pool 11.4 from https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool/releases/tag/11.4 which should work in connecting up with TreasureQuarry and thus combining our hashpower].

    mazacoin=math.Object(
        PARENT=networks.nets['mazacoin'],
        SHARE_PERIOD=20, # seconds between pool shares
        CHAIN_LENGTH=24*60*60//10, # shares
        REAL_CHAIN_LENGTH=24*60*60//10, # shares
        TARGET_LOOKBEHIND=2, # shares
        SPREAD=15, # blocks
        IDENTIFIER='b497d1a69c84e7e1'.decode('hex'),
        PREFIX='73b291a3e8c084d2'.decode('hex'),
        P2P_PORT=14476,
        MIN_TARGET=0,
        MAX_TARGET=2**256//2**20 - 1,
        PERSIST=False,
        WORKER_PORT=14477,
        BOOTSTRAP_ADDRS='mazacoin.treasurequarry.com'.split(' '),
        ANNOUNCE_CHANNEL='#p2pool-alt',
        VERSION_CHECK=lambda v: True,
    ),

   mazacoin=math.Object(
        P2P_PREFIX='f8b503df'.decode('hex'),
        P2P_PORT=12835,
        ADDRESS_VERSION=50,
        RPC_PORT=12832,
        RPC_CHECK=defer.inlineCallbacks(lambda bitcoind: defer.returnValue(
            'mazacoinaddress' in (yield bitcoind.rpc_help()) and
            not (yield bitcoind.rpc_getinfo())['testnet']
        )),
        SUBSIDY_FUNC=lambda height: 5000*100000000 >> (height + 1)//241920,
        POW_FUNC=data.hash256,
        BLOCK_PERIOD=120, # s
        SYMBOL='MZC',
        CONF_FILE_FUNC=lambda: os.path.join(os.path.join(os.environ['APPDATA'], 'Mazacoin') if platform.system() == 'Windows' else os.path.expanduser('~/Library/Application Support/Mazacoin/') if platform.system() == 'Darwin' else os.path.expanduser('~/.mazacoin'), 'mazacoin.conf'),        
        BLOCK_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://explorer.mazacoin.org/block/',
        ADDRESS_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://explorer.mazacoin.org/address/',
        TX_EXPLORER_URL_PREFIX='http://explorer.mazacoin.org/tx/',
        SANE_TARGET_RANGE=(2**256//2**32//1000 - 1, 2**256//2**32 - 1),
        DUMB_SCRYPT_DIFF=1,
        DUST_THRESHOLD=0.001e8,
    ),

Can I ask where your server is located geographically, paniczklos?

[rav3n_pl]

Share chain settings are TOTALLY OFF!
On this settings, PPLNS window is 48 hours of 15 blocks.
This means, if someone start mining and pool is finding less than 15 blocks in 48 hours he have to mine 2 days to get full payout.
Also, setting target_lookbehind to 2 will make share diff jump up and down alot. This should be set at least 5 (5 shares = 100 seconds retarget pool share diff).

[TreasureSeeker]

TARGET_LOOKBEHIND of 2 allows the pool difficuly to adjust as fast as possible to allow for sudden increases and decreases in hashrate (think Kimoto's gravity well but to a lesser extent as the adjustment isn't as fast as you may expect).

Regarding CHAIN_LENGTH and REAL_CHAIN_LENGTH, a longer PPLNS window is better for smaller miners, giving them a longer period in which they have a chance to get a share.

Standard Mincoin p2pools use a 3 day PPLNS window, and  Royalcoin uses 6 days. Source: https://github.com/narken/p2pool-altcoins/blob/master/p2pool/networks.py

These settings are a matter of choice and another pool owner shouting in capitals that they're way off is a bit off in itself.
 

[TreasureSeeker]

Whilst we're on the subject of the PPLNS window, the official P2Pool source for Bitcoin uses 3 days .  Source https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool/blob/master/p2pool/networks.py

[roy7]

Sorry for rocking the boat. I'd asked rav3n to review and add to his repo if he wanted, since I use it for other coins already and figured it'd be convenient if he dropped it into the github.

[TreasureSeeker]

No problem, roy7, and I don't mind it going into the github.  I was just a bit put off by rav3n_pl's shouting.  I've used similar settings for months on some of my other p2pools with great success and happy miners.

On a totally unrelated note, could miner MFiqFUxwFVNdKfGJQsYPNd9zL74iip6pby PM me as whatever you're settings or software you're using for mining seems to have been causing some problems.  I've reluctantly had to ban you meanwhile.  If you can PM me with what details of program you're using to mine and your command line or settings you're using then maybe we can figure out what's causing the problems.

[traderash@aol.com]

I am having trouble getting my erupter blades connected. Can anybody tell me the appropriate command line code? Thank you.

[roy7]

I am having trouble getting my erupter blades connected. Can anybody tell me the appropriate command line code? Thank you.

Are those the ones that can only accept DIFF 1 work? If so, add /1 after your payment address, but you'll have lots of network traffic to the pool. Best to run a local stratum proxy if that's possible, or a local p2pool node on your own computer.