a question regarding this below. how is the progress of the development of p2pool?
thank you very much!
P2P Mode:
The p2pool protocol prevents hashing power being controlled by one central entity (the pool owner), and has been significantly developed during the development of Antpool. All p2pool code have been open sourced and uploaded on BITMAIN's Github link
https://github.com/bitmaintech/p2pool. We hope that we can optimize the p2p protocol and network with other interested engineers around the world.
We believe p2pool protocol has great potential, however, it is not developed very well till now.
Firstly, p2pool protocol's total hash rate is low compared with the whole network's, which is around only 2% of it as of Nov 2014. So p2pool's output is still not quite stable. There is a network effect barrier we need to break, then the p2pool protocol will have stable output and more miners will join the protocol. One of the most import reason for this is that there is not a well developed p2pool agent mining pool. If there is a well developed agent as the p2p.antpool.com, the total hashrate of p2pool will be significantly increased.
Secondly, the protocol of p2pool network is already optimized a lot, but for average miners, it is not as efficient as it could be, especially for some low bandwidth miners, whom will not be affected if they are connected to a normal stratum mining pool. We hope our efforts will help the community feel easier to set up p2pool mining nodes running with high efficiency.
If p2pool protocol can provide a more stable output, and the code is published, we hope that there will be more and more independent p2pool mining nodes around the world. There are lots of enterprise level miners around the world. I think it will be in the best interest for themselves to run their own p2pool mining nodes, if we can develop it into a convenient, reliable and efficient tools.
