[1500 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool

[jtoomim]

I'm working on adding fork-friendliness to p2pool now. It's a bit more complicated than I thought at first. You can't just check to see if a share's parentblock is in bitcoind's blockchain and mark the share invalid if not, because orphaned blocks are a thing. Instead, I will be trying to keep a penalty score for each share, where each share's penalty is the previous share's penalty plus 0 if the parentblock is found in the blockchain else the work done if the parentblock is not in the blockchain (i.e. orphan or invalid). P2pool will then look for the share with the greatest (work - penalty). That description is slightly oversimplified, but I hope it gets the main idea across.

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[jtoomim]

I will be upgrading all of my nodes to 1mb_segwit tomorrow. I suggest that anyone mining on jtoomimnet switch to the 1mb_segwit branch ASAP.

[keke51]

Dear community! And esp MR Jtoomim!
I bet i'm not alone in willing to have a BCH (or BCC) sort of fork of P2pool. Is it real? I am not a coding person, but BCH is not far from the original BTC and maybe it is not so big work to do?

[dimkov]

Dear community! And esp MR Jtoomim!
I bet i'm not alone in willing to have a BCH (or BCC) sort of fork of P2pool. Is it real? I am not a coding person, but BCH is not far from the original BTC and maybe it is not so big work to do?

Join in the keke51. The complexity of the network BCH falls, the price increases. Ideal conditions for mining BCH. Really need P2pool BCH.

[Cryptonomist]

Go back and read here this might help. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.msg19006724#msg19006724

Ok, thank you. This solved the problem.

I've got another question about p2pool. I'm fairly new to mining using p2pool, so the current situation with the different forks is a bit confusing. As I understand it from the posts on this forum and the output of jtoomim's 1mb_segwit p2pool, jtoomim's fork follows segwit2x, which will be a hardfork of the bitcoin blockchain in november. I'm in favor of segwit but not of segwit2x. So I would rather not mine on a p2pool fork that supports segwit2x. As I understand it the current version of forrestv p2pool's does not support segwit. That's the version I use currently for mining. However I see that veqtrus wrote a commit that supports segwit but not segwit2x. So my question is the folowing. Is there a plan in the foreseeable future to merge forrestv's version and veqtrus's commit, so that I just need to do a git pull to have a a p2pool version that supports segwit?  Or, is forrestv's version going to merge with jtoomim's version, so that I will be forced to chose for segwit2x anyway?

Thank you.

[jtoomim]

jtoomimnet (via the 1mb_segwit branch) follows segwit for the next two months. I am working on code that will make jtoomimnet split into a segwit chain and a segwit2x chain automatically once the fork happens. This code will also be required for supporting Bitcoin Cash, which is my immediate goal.

Supporting Bitcoin Cash is likely to require some p2pool performance improvements as well, as the current codebase struggles with 1MB blocks, much less 8MB. I hope to have Bitcoin Cash working by the end of the weekend as long as you have a high-end server. I'll try to get the needed performance improvements afterwards.

I will be forced to chose for segwit2x anyway?

It is not my goal to force anyone to do anything. As long as you are aware of the risks of mining on a minority chain, you are welcome to do so. I don't want people to mine on the minority chain due to ignorance, but as long as people know what they're doing, it's fine with me.

[Xantus]

isent it posible to compile an P2Pool exe File for windows ? 

[jtoomim]

Not with pypy. Until I get the performance good enough so that regular CPython will work for p2pool without high DOA rates on common CPUs, pypy will be necessary, and making EXEs will not be a good idea.

[jtoomim]

Sigh, more p2pool drama between me and veqtrus:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6uweb7/p2pool_upgrade_for_segwit_compatibility/

[jtoomim]

I goofed and set one of my nodes' bitcoinds to prune its blockchain. Apparently p2pool requires that the genesis block be unpruned, and will fail to start if pruning is enabled. Oops. ml.toom.im:9334 will be down for a couple more hours as I resync the blockchain. It's up to block 415543 so far, so it shouldn't be too much longer. If anyone was mining onto ml.toom.im:9334, sorry.

[jtoomim]

Support for v33 (Segwit) shares on jtoomimnet is at around 97% over the last few hours. Anyone still in the 3% who hasn't upgraded will be forked off very soon.

[veqtrus]

People who do not want to use jtoomimnet should use the segwit PR against the main repo as segwit will activate in less than a day.

https://github.com/veqtrus/p2pool/releases/tag/16.1-segwit

ForrestV seems to be inactive.

[Cluster2k]

Node address (Original code): http://btc.coinpool.pw:9332
Node address (Forked code): http://btc-fork.coinpool.pw:9334

To connect to me: run_p2pool.py -n btc-fork.coinpool.pw:9335
CPU: i7-3770 @ 3.40GHz
RAM: 16GB
Pipe: 1Gbit Hetzner Germany, DC#19
Using: Pypy 5.7.1 @ Ubuntu 16.04

Both nodes has integrated pull request with adaptive variable difficulty so are suitable for mining by many different ASICs at one time.

Also i've implemented scanner for public P2Pool nodes (both original and forked ones!) at https://p2pool.coinpool.pw/

I recommend using this pool, the guy is very skilled and honest.

[sawa]

https://github.com/veqtrus/p2pool/releases/tag/16.1-segwit

What wallet do you recommend to use with this version of the p2pool?