Additional subsidy for P2Pool users: 1-3btc/day

[Elmojo]

If i read correctly, i don't have to register or make my presence known to receive the subsidy?

All i have to do is mine under p2pool?

Correct. Well, you have to supply P2Pool with a bitcoin address to mine. That is all.

I'm trying to start mining in P2Pool, but this part is fuzzy to me.
Where do I "supply P2Pool with a bitcoin address to mine".
Does that get added to the .conf file?
I'm confused (and a little slow)
Elmojo

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[ancow]

If i read correctly, i don't have to register or make my presence known to receive the subsidy?

All i have to do is mine under p2pool?

Correct. Well, you have to supply P2Pool with a bitcoin address to mine. That is all.

I'm trying to start mining in P2Pool, but this part is fuzzy to me.
Where do I "supply P2Pool with a bitcoin address to mine".
Does that get added to the .conf file?
I'm confused (and a little slow)
Elmojo

Questions about p2pool should be asked there: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.660

You don't have to supply p2pool with with an address; it'll ask your bitcoind for one if you don't specify it. If you want to mine to a specific address, add the "-a <address>" parameter.
You are eligible for a subsidy as long as you submitted a p2pool share within the last 24h.

[Elmojo]

Gotcha, thanks.
Sorry for the mis-post in the wrong thread, thanks for answering anyway.

[ancow]

Gotcha, thanks.
Sorry for the mis-post in the wrong thread, thanks for answering anyway.

No problem. Since both threads are about p2pool in a way and the question started on-topic, I don't think it was a big deal, I just pointed you to the other thread because I think you'll get faster and possibly better answers there...

[1Pakis]

I mine with p2pool since Friday noon and haven't received a bitcent or even less.
myaddress is 197giRXjySrTqyiaccyrw4UEu66Zc5Yymf and it appears in all of blocks mined yesterday and today.
Can someone explain to me why?

[ThiagoCMC]

Hi coretechs!

 Can you share your "donation script" with us?!

 I want to setup the same scheme for the Litecoin P2Pool miners...

 Right now, I just put a cronjob to donate everyday the same amount, at the same time of day... But I would like to have the same behavior of your setup, I mean, send donations according to the balance, etc...

Thanks!
Thiago

Sure, here you go:

Code:

# p2pdonate.sh
sleep `echo $(( $RANDOM % 1440 * 60))`
./bitcoind sendmany "p2p_donations" "$(GET http://forre.st:9332/patron_sendmany?total=`echo "(\`echo "(\\\`./bitcoind getbalance p2p_donations\\\`+0.5)/1"|bc|wc -m\`-1)"|bc`.0)" >> donation.log

This script assumes that you have bitcoind running as a server with an account called "p2p_donations" but it's easy enough to change.  Just schedule it to run at midnight, the sleep command will delay the execution randomly up to 24hrs.  It counts the number of digits in the whole number balance of the account and sends that many BTC, appending the transaction id to a log file.

0-9 balance - 1 BTC
10-99 balance - 2 BTC
100-999 balance - 3 BTC
etc

Disclaimer: *Run at your own risk.  I take no responsibility for anything that happens if you run this code.  It works on my computer but it may not work on yours.*

Thank you!!!   

[1Pakis]

I mine with p2pool since Friday noon and haven't received a bitcent or even less.
myaddress is 197giRXjySrTqyiaccyrw4UEu66Zc5Yymf and it appears in all of blocks mined yesterday and today.
Can someone explain to me why?

That address has indeed been paid for the blocks that P2Pool found. The problem seems to be you aren't seeing it in your balance.

Is this address in the wallet of the client that you are using to mine with P2Pool or did you specify another address?

It is an address of my mtgox account.
I check it from blockexplorer blockchain.info and mtgox and i see no other payments except from what is generated from the blocks we find.

[1Pakis]

So what is my problem?
why don't I appear in http://forre.st:9332/patron_sendmany?total=1 ?

[thirdlight]

It is an address of my mtgox account.

Are mtgox accounts ok with "generation" transactions? Some online wallets don't like those.

[gmaxwell]

There is a small miner pool built into the send many. People who are below a certain point are entered into a lottery and one person randomly gets the reward. This is to cut down on very many very small transactions.

Or change the threshold to 0: http://forre.st:9332/patron_sendmany?total=1&thresh=0. The default threshold is 0.01 (people who would be paid under 0.01 are in the 'lottery'), because outputs below 0.01 will result in needing a fee.

[1Pakis]

It is an address of my mtgox account.

Are mtgox accounts ok with "generation" transactions? Some online wallets don't like those.

Never had a problem up to now with more than 20 transactions.
In blockchain.info I can see mtgox is moving some amounts out of this address but my balance doesn't change after the moves nor this moves appear inside my mtgox transaction log.

[twmz]

Someone made a donation to the address I list on p2pool.info.  Over the next few days, I will be sending it to the p2pool miners using the patron_sendmany algorithm.  

Here is the list of transactions:

2/28/12 - http://blockchain.info/tx/7f5658c8cd2868cfc87e1ed921be74b80c06b0cb8c60b98fa709b0a23d971c31
2/29/12 - http://blockchain.info/tx/02cfe0ee7caa9342127b6c2255e22033c386bc9863da9e837e45c0e3bb7ddbca

[DeathAndTaxes]

Setting up one server for multiple miners isn't that much more work.  I think the bigger issue, and it is more easily solved, is monitoring.  I think a monitoring tool like BAMT's mgpumon would really help push some farms over, especially if it could send out alerts of idle miners (like many pools do).  I'll put up 5BTC for any monitor that I can access over ssh with a browser to monitor rigs running cgminer to a single p2pool node. And another .5 for 10 days to join coretechs if someone can tell me how to do it from a gui wallet.

EDITED

This.  Trying to cram p2pool and blockchain into BAMT or Linuxcoin is hugely wasteful, complicated and likely going to lead to all kinds of problems.  Anyone suggesting it likely doesn't have more than 1 or 2 rigs.

Most large miners have a setup like this:

BAMT on rig #1  \
BAMT on rig #2   \
BAMT on rig #3    \
...                        /  ------> conventional mining pool
BAMT on rig #11  /
BAMT on rig #12 /

Having 12 copies of block chain and 12 instances of p2pool and 12 payment address (or yet another thing to configure across 12 machines) make absolutely no sense when you can do this

BAMT on rig #1  \
BAMT on rig #2   \
BAMT on rig #3    \
...                        /  ------> machine on the LAN running p2pool (or public p2pool instance)
BAMT on rig #11  /
BAMT on rig #12 /

For the same reason cgminer integration is likely a dead end.  Anyone with 2+ rigs is better served by having a "p2pool" machine.  It doesn't even need to be a mining rig.

[twmz]

Another payment sent.

Here is the list of transactions:

2/28/12 - http://blockchain.info/tx/7f5658c8cd2868cfc87e1ed921be74b80c06b0cb8c60b98fa709b0a23d971c31
2/29/12 - http://blockchain.info/tx/02cfe0ee7caa9342127b6c2255e22033c386bc9863da9e837e45c0e3bb7ddbca

[twmz]

Yep.  Another one.

Here is the list of transactions:

2/28/12 - http://blockchain.info/tx/7f5658c8cd2868cfc87e1ed921be74b80c06b0cb8c60b98fa709b0a23d971c31
2/29/12 - http://blockchain.info/tx/02cfe0ee7caa9342127b6c2255e22033c386bc9863da9e837e45c0e3bb7ddbca
3/1/12 - http://blockchain.info/tx/3e49a6f271ed1ebc82b39fc892e87aac3dc9481f0dc0e6a9b04d8b905b57c09c
3/3/12 - http://blockchain.info/tx/0ffc8923090ba663408a4aad89dca71d0d9d487ef05bea129dda43774eb70a2f

[tiberiandusk]

Is anyone still doing this?

[K1773R]

nope

[ninjaboon]

nope

2bad. I've just updated the p2pool client to v8.2

[K1773R]

nope

2bad. I've just updated the p2pool client to v8.2

still worth it, soon there will be less orphans

[K1773R]

i think subsidys could atract new miners (since we need more GH) to p2pool, anyone interested in reviving this?