1) the reward, not the shares ...
2) yes and P2P divide work in shared jobs (that why P2Pool have his sidechain with his shares)
3) P2Pool system with sidechain shares (if you don't work in the sidechain, you don't have reward)
4) Yes, because the sidechain of shared work contain somes jobs already done by your miner (jobs are associated at bitcoin receive adress).
5) Yes, but it's automated by P2Pool system (not by the admin. of node).
6) launch p2pool command with -h to view ALL the command available to set a node for miners.
>run_p2pool -h
usage: run_p2pool [-h] [--version]
[--net {bitcoin,fastcoin,litecoin,terracoin}] [--testnet]
[--debug] [-a ADDRESS] [-i NUMADDRESSES] [-t TIMEADDRESSES]
[--datadir DATADIR] [--logfile LOGFILE]
[--merged MERGED_URLS] [--give-author DONATION_PERCENTAGE]
[--iocp] [--irc-announce] [--no-bugreport]
[--p2pool-port PORT] [-n ADDR[:PORT]] [--disable-upnp]
[--max-conns CONNS] [--outgoing-conns CONNS]
[--external-ip ADDR[:PORT]] [--disable-advertise]
[-w PORT or ADDR:PORT] [-f FEE_PERCENTAGE]
[--bitcoind-config-path BITCOIND_CONFIG_PATH]
[--bitcoind-address BITCOIND_ADDRESS]
[--bitcoind-rpc-port BITCOIND_RPC_PORT] [--bitcoind-rpc-ssl]
[--bitcoind-p2p-port BITCOIND_P2P_PORT]
[BITCOIND_RPCUSERPASS [BITCOIND_RPCUSERPASS ...]]
p2pool (version 14.0)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--version show program's version number and exit
--net {bitcoin,fastcoin,litecoin,terracoin}
use specified network (default: bitcoin)
--testnet use the network's testnet
--debug enable debugging mode
-a ADDRESS, --address ADDRESS
generate payouts to this address (default:
requested from bitcoind>), or (dynamic)
-i NUMADDRESSES, --numaddresses NUMADDRESSES
number of bitcoin auto-generated addresses to maintain
for getwork dynamic address allocation
-t TIMEADDRESSES, --timeaddresses TIMEADDRESSES
seconds between acquisition of new address and removal
of single old (default: 2 days or 172800s)
--datadir DATADIR store data in this directory (default:
run_p2pool.py is in>/data)
--logfile LOGFILE log to this file (default: data/
/log)
--merged MERGED_URLS call getauxblock on this url to get work for merged
mining (example:
http://ncuser:[email protected]:10332/)
--give-author DONATION_PERCENTAGE
donate this percentage of work towards the development
of p2pool (default: 1.0)
--iocp use Windows IOCP API in order to avoid errors due to
large number of sockets being open
--irc-announce announce any blocks found on
irc://irc.freenode.net/#p2pool
--no-bugreport disable submitting caught exceptions to the author
--disable-upnp don't attempt to use UPnP to forward p2pool's P2P port
from the Internet to this computer
--disable-advertise don't advertise local IP address as being available
for incoming connections. useful for running a dark
node, along with multiple -n ADDR's and --outgoing-
conns 0
p2pool interface:
--p2pool-port PORT use port PORT to listen for connections (forward this
port from your router!) (default: bitcoin:9333,
fastcoin:23660, litecoin:9338, terracoin:9323)
-n ADDR[:PORT], --p2pool-node ADDR[:PORT]
connect to existing p2pool node at ADDR listening on
port PORT (defaults to default p2pool P2P port) in
addition to builtin addresses
--max-conns CONNS maximum incoming connections (default: 40)
--outgoing-conns CONNS
outgoing connections (default: 6)
--external-ip ADDR[:PORT]
specify your own public IP address instead of asking
peers to discover it, useful for running dual WAN or
asymmetric routing
worker interface:
-w PORT or ADDR:PORT, --worker-port PORT or ADDR:PORT
listen on PORT on interface with ADDR for RPC
connections from miners (default: all interfaces,
bitcoin:9332, fastcoin:5150, litecoin:9327,
terracoin:9322)
-f FEE_PERCENTAGE, --fee FEE_PERCENTAGE
charge workers mining to their own bitcoin address (by
setting their miner's username to a bitcoin address)
this percentage fee to mine on your p2pool instance.
Amount displayed at http://127.0.0.1:WORKER_PORT/fee
(default: 0)
bitcoind interface:
--bitcoind-config-path BITCOIND_CONFIG_PATH
custom configuration file path (when bitcoind -conf
option used)
--bitcoind-address BITCOIND_ADDRESS
connect to this address (default: 127.0.0.1)
--bitcoind-rpc-port BITCOIND_RPC_PORT
connect to JSON-RPC interface at this port (default:
bitcoin:8332, fastcoin:9527, litecoin:9332,
terracoin:13332 not provided>)
--bitcoind-rpc-ssl connect to JSON-RPC interface using SSL
--bitcoind-p2p-port BITCOIND_P2P_PORT
connect to P2P interface at this port (default:
bitcoin:8333, fastcoin:9526, litecoin:9333,
terracoin:13333 not provided>)
BITCOIND_RPCUSERPASS bitcoind RPC interface username, then password, space-
separated (only one being provided will cause the
username to default to being empty, and none will
cause P2Pool to read them from bitcoin.conf)
