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

[omo]

is it possible to add a feature to the p2pool, for each miner joined p2pool, they can set a donation percentage, just like what they did in other pools, but the donations are sent to miners mining in p2pool? also, people can see a total donations in a stat page.

[Cusipzzz]

More free btc for P2Pool miners: 1,99718 BTC

Txn: 51cca5e3d1f186d5344f204535b40e4d350ace8ecc2726345c1c453448c7b9e5

Still many days to come with free money, so get on P2Pool and get your share!

[Mike Hearn]

Some more subsidies today:

20f5844c7ec1dccc6abc436bf5ca99b19235fc0f5536cd033d4facb6d4862a1f 0.39 BTC from mcorlett

http://blockchain.info/tx-index/14165930/2deea9139104a73aaedd32c30cd35aebf0a4fdfec01c76a5a6008685bbc84274
2.0 BTC   from me

That's a free $12, with another coming tomorrow. Get mining people!

[Cusipzzz]

Another 1.223344btc for today contributed to the miners @ P2Pool

txn: df6c4879d7a62ea95592c2cecffabc4b58577b01bb1a2271767ee107df2ca98c

Get to mining on P2Pool - lotsa free money coming the next 10 days!!

[Mike Hearn]

182c1c755375b14d117f1204b32eb8c2224887aad2cf8e14775afa84a7e19f6e

[Cusipzzz]

More money for P2Pool miners!

txn: bc41188faa51db684c9981eafbc1caae66aeeb6ecd7ba3a1ab4a92a920cabe95

gogo miners 

[marcus_of_augustus]

Another good donation (of time) could be with some attention to the docs/howto and ease the way with getting set-up for P2pool mining ... path of least resistance is still to pay for convenience and lower-variance of centralised pools via fees, although the balance is definitely now shifting with these sendmany donations (neat idea ).

Maybe for the casual miners a P2Pool bundled script that installs the necessary components in the correct place, conf settings done, etc? Not sure how difficult that would be with all the variable hardware, miner s/ware, etc. Actually, does Gui-miner support P2Pool?

If P2Pool hits >120 GHash/s then probably gets stickied on the "Pools" sections, etc

[Mike Hearn]

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[Mike Hearn]

It seems not many new users are joining because of the subsidies. I wonder what the bottleneck is - really ease of use? People don't care? Still too much variance on the p2pool?

[iongchun]

It seems not many new users are joining because of the subsidies. I wonder what the bottleneck is - really ease of use? People don't care? Still too much variance on the p2pool?

Maybe some more statistics to prove p2pool's efficiency?
I mean, for example, estimated payout history for local miners (like yourbtc/ozcoin), share count history for mined blocks, etc.
I think it is hard to convince people without numbers/graphs/charts

[Mike Hearn]

I was assuming that's wrong, as the graph on the p2pool forum post hasn't changed much, but still appears to be live.

[goblin]

It seems not many new users are joining because of the subsidies. I wonder what the bottleneck is - really ease of use? People don't care? Still too much variance on the p2pool?

Maybe some more statistics to prove p2pool's efficiency?
I mean, for example, estimated payout history for local miners (like yourbtc/ozcoin), share count history for mined blocks, etc.
I think it is hard to convince people without numbers/graphs/charts

OK, you can check the current payout distribution at:

http://yat.uukgoblin.net/p2pool-stats/current_payouts.html

It pulls data straight from forrestv's node at p2pool.forre.st. Also, all this data will be in p2pool's logs, if you're running it.

I'm planning to donate some (about 5BTC) too, in a few days - to everyone except me ;-)

Ah yes, and stats at blockchain.info are wrong - I've already emailed piuk about it, but didn't get any reply so far.

[gnar1ta$]

I'm going to try to set up p2pool this weekend.  If I can figure it out I'll put some money in for the cause. 

[Cusipzzz]

Agree - anyone want to get the word out?

Another contribution, txn: 1abc4acdf31ce7aad7e4be29f77514d98478c9992e3541137ef454a3e57c0c5b

Get paid to mine and do the right thing for the network..Not sure why it's not catching steam yet. But I still have at least 9 more days of contributions to go!! So set up P2Pool now and get mining!

[Therilith]

OK, you can check the current payout distribution at:

http://yat.uukgoblin.net/p2pool-stats/current_payouts.html

It pulls data straight from forrestv's node at p2pool.forre.st. Also, all this data will be in p2pool's logs, if you're running it.

Doesn't seem to be working.

Code:

error: http://p2pool.forre.st:9332/rate: undefined
error: http://p2pool.forre.st:9332/current_payouts: undefined
error: http://p2pool.forre.st:9332/recent_blocks: undefined

Also, is there a waiting period/minimum number of shares needed to get on the list?

[marcus_of_augustus]

As it stands any pool that has similar or less Hashpower than P2Pool has an incentive to join P2Pool as a supernode (perhaps even without informing its pool miners?) just on variance considerations alone ... plus that little extra from the donations.

Only pools that are >3 times bigger than P2pool stand to gain little from not joining. Inevitably, P2Pool will slowly absorb all the smaller pools gaining in size the whole time until there comes to a point ..... "There can be only One".

Edit: What is the current difficulty of a P2Pool share?

[goblin]

OK, you can check the current payout distribution at:

http://yat.uukgoblin.net/p2pool-stats/current_payouts.html

It pulls data straight from forrestv's node at p2pool.forre.st. Also, all this data will be in p2pool's logs, if you're running it.

Doesn't seem to be working.

Code:

error: http://p2pool.forre.st:9332/rate: undefined
error: http://p2pool.forre.st:9332/current_payouts: undefined
error: http://p2pool.forre.st:9332/recent_blocks: undefined

Also, is there a waiting period/minimum number of shares needed to get on the list?

You might need a recent browser (Firefox 3.5 or later AFAIR) as this uses AJAX with CORS which is a pretty new standard. Works for me.

No, there is no minimum to the best of my knowledge, as soon as you get 1 share into the p2pool blockchain you qualify for a payout.

[goblin]

Edit: What is the current difficulty of a P2Pool share?

159.130410 at the time of this writing :-)

Changes pretty often.

[broken]

Doesn't seem to be working.

Code:

error: http://p2pool.forre.st:9332/rate: undefined
error: http://p2pool.forre.st:9332/current_payouts: undefined
error: http://p2pool.forre.st:9332/recent_blocks: undefined

Keep in mind that you can't access a different domain on client side ( eg. javascript ) due to sandbox violation. You have to do the AJAX requests on server side.

[Therilith]

Also, is there a waiting period/minimum number of shares needed to get on the list?

No, there is no minimum to the best of my knowledge, as soon as you get 1 share into the p2pool blockchain you qualify for a payout.

Ok, I was just curious because I've been mining on P2Pool for the past 24h, but my address isn't on http://forre.st:9332/patron_sendmany?total=1.5