A Complete Guide to P2Pool - Merged Mining (BTC/NMC/DVC/IXC/I0C) plus LTC, Linux

[Red Emerald]

Anyone know what is the problem?

Are you sure litecoin has downloaded the whole blockchain? You can't mine with p2pool until you have the block chain.

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[01BTC10]

I have 97860 block downloaded. Seem like I have them all.

[ThiagoCMC]

You do not follow all the instructions.

As your litecoin.conf says, you must add this to start you Litecoin P2Pool:

"--bitcoind-rpc-port 10332 --bitcoind-p2p-port 10333"

Cheers!
Thiago

[01BTC10]

Your help is really appreciated!

Success!

[01BTC10]

Also had to remove this line from port forward rules.

Code:

192.168.1.10 9338 127.0.0.1 9338

Very happy to finally have it up and running!  

[ThiagoCMC]

AWESOME!

[ragnard]

I used this guide and have P2Pool running great for the past week on BTC and LTC mining.  I tried to setup merged mining with NMC a couple days ago, and I don't know how to determine if I am successful (I am running the BTC pool with the --merged option). I continue to receive BTC and LTC shares and payments, but so far not anything for NMC.  I grep'd the log for namecoin and nothing comes up.  What should the output show to determine if I am actually mining NMC?

Code:

namecoind getinfo
{
    "version" : 32466,
    "balance" : 0.00000000,
    "blocks" : 46917,
    "connections" : 36,
    "proxy" : "",
    "generate" : false,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "difficulty" : 567311.97122097,
    "hashespersec" : 0,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1331581095,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "mininput" : 0.00010000,
    "errors" : ""
}

Thanks again for a great guide, Thiago!

[ThiagoCMC]

You're welcome!!! ^_^

At the P2Pool window, look for the message: "Got merged mining"...

If you see this message, it is working.

If your P2Pool can not connect on the daemon passed with the --merged option, you'll see a huge error!

Anyway, merged mining within p2pool is still solo mining for the alt-chains, I mean, it will take time to find a Namecoin block, when you find one, you'll receive 50 Namecoins.

Bitcoin and Litecoin P2Pool is a pool as word says...

Forrestv in the future will implement real merged mining for alt-chains (I believe he will).

Best!
Thiago

[ragnard]

Thanks!  I have the merged mining notification I just didn't know I was solo mining for the NMC.  Cool!

[ThiagoCMC]

Hi!

 The syntax of patron_sendmany (to make donation to the P2Pool miners) was updated.

Cheers!
Thiago

[ThiagoCMC]

Hi again!

 Added "libcurl4-gnutls-dev" to the step 9, because it is needed to compile Devcoin.

Cheers!
Thiago

[ThiagoCMC]

Hi!

 Since Ubuntu Bitcoin was upgraded, I just update the guide...

Cheers!
Thiago

[Serenata]

I used this guide and have P2Pool running great for the past week on BTC and LTC mining.  I tried to setup merged mining with NMC a couple days ago, and I don't know how to determine if I am successful (I am running the BTC pool with the --merged option). I continue to receive BTC and LTC shares and payments, but so far not anything for NMC.  I grep'd the log for namecoin and nothing comes up.  What should the output show to determine if I am actually mining NMC?

Code:

namecoind getinfo
{
    "version" : 32466,
    "balance" : 0.00000000,
    "blocks" : 46917,
    "connections" : 36,
    "proxy" : "",
    "generate" : false,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "difficulty" : 567311.97122097,
    "hashespersec" : 0,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1331581095,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "mininput" : 0.00010000,
    "errors" : ""
}

Thanks again for a great guide, Thiago!

You're welcome!!! ^_^
At the P2Pool window, look for the message: "Got merged mining"...
If you see this message, it is working.
If your P2Pool can not connect on the daemon passed with the --merged option, you'll see a huge error!
Anyway, merged mining within p2pool is still solo mining for the alt-chains, I mean, it will take time to find a Namecoin block, when you find one, you'll receive 50 Namecoins.
Bitcoin and Litecoin P2Pool is a pool as word says...
Forrestv in the future will implement real merged mining for alt-chains (I believe he will).
Best!
Thiago

I had exactly the same question as ragnard, but you both got me covered now. Thanks!

[Tittiez]

You may want to add the the guide that if you put the daemons in /user/bin/ you can access them by just typing bitcoind or namecoind.

Example:

Code:

...
root@fuckbag:~# bitcoind
bitcoin server starting
...

[2weiX]

interested in trying this.

is there anything i should handle differently if i were to try this on a USB stick?
my rig is an hour-long drive from here, and i'd LOVE to install the packages, d/l the blockchain etc etc from home on my laptop, pretty much have the whole shebang ready to run with "only" the miners to start and the server to configure...?

[2weiX]

interested in trying this.

is there anything i should handle differently if i were to try this on a USB stick?
my rig is an hour-long drive from here, and i'd LOVE to install the packages, d/l the blockchain etc etc from home on my laptop, pretty much have the whole shebang ready to run with "only" the miners to start and the server to configure...?

even better: a p2pool-ready "linuxcoin"

I would LOVE to use this, but am still bound to use win7 as I am remoted-desktopping with a friend and the rig is (as I said) a long-ass way from my home. I would feel comfy with a pre-configured p2pool USB-stick where I would only have to tinker with the IP-addy for the server, set some PWs and my wallets for the different coins.

[ThiagoCMC]

If you run bitcoind and p2pool software on a USB FlashDrive, you'll decrease the flashdrive lifetime....

I can be a good idea to have a P2Pool installation CD ready!! Or something like that...

[2weiX]

If you run bitcoind and p2pool software on a USB FlashDrive, you'll decrease the flashdrive lifetime....

I can be a good idea to have a P2Pool installation CD ready!! Or something like that...

how's that?
also, 4gig flashdrives come cheap these days.

you could just make it INSTALL from USB to the HDD and then be ready-to-go.

[ThiagoCMC]

If you run bitcoind and p2pool software on a USB FlashDrive, you'll decrease the flashdrive lifetime....

I can be a good idea to have a P2Pool installation CD ready!! Or something like that...

how's that?
also, 4gig flashdrives come cheap these days.

you could just make it INSTALL from USB to the HDD and then be ready-to-go.

Because the bitcoind do a lots of smalls writes all the time... It will kill your flashdrive fast...

And if you want merged mining, more writes from alt-chains...

Sure, then it can be only a installation to HD from USD or ISO...

Best,
thiago

[Ed]

yesterday started my LTC p2pool with minerd miner
Local: 39316H/s
got hundreds shares and dozens blocks...
Current payout: 1.0568 LTC....and still growing
but still no payout got
what is wrong?