[1500 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool - page 399.

PatMan

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Watch out for the "Neg-Rep-Dogie-Police".....

Quote from: mdude77 on April 27, 2014, 09:40:10 AM

Quote from: PatMan on April 27, 2014, 06:22:16 AM

I noticed bfgminer are working on integrating SSL/TLS support in their miner - I've been looking through p2pool documentation but can't find any info on weather p2pool supports it or not.....anybody shed some light on this for me?

Peace.

If you're using a local node it shouldn't matter.

M

Hi mdude,

Obviously not for the local miner node, I meant for the remote miner as well as nodes to node communication. I see there are many reports from various pools that there is some kind of bug/malware causing redirects etc, hence the reason for the SSL/TLS - just to give another level of security. I like the thought of internode comms being securely encrypted, as well as the miner software

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Quote from: mdude77 on April 27, 2014, 01:11:44 PM

Quote from: jacob019 on April 27, 2014, 01:08:36 PM

Network hash rate is up to 524 TH/s, best I've seen. Expected time to block is down to 15 hours, really great!

I'm operating a 0% fee node on a fast server in Chicago.
http://p2pool.1js.us
Come mine with us!

The hash rate seems to jump around quite a bit. I think I finally understand why. p2pool doesn't really know what the hash rate is. It just does an estimate based on how many shares are being found per time period. Since that varies with pool share difficulty, it keeps swinging around. Pool share difficulty goes up, shares/time goes down, apparent hashrate decreases. Then pool share difficulty goes down to compensate, shares/time goes up, and apparent hashrate increases. Rinse and repeat.

M

This effect could be felt only between 2 shares if the difficulty rose of fell rapidly while the actual network speed went in the other direction. Given that the p2pool share interval is only 30 seconds this effect should be negligible.

The problem is more likely to be simply that the hash rate is an estimation on a time period or a number of shares (which is more or less the same). As a mean value it doesn't reflect the fastest changes. I'm not sure how many shares are used for the current hash rate estimation that's probably not hard to find in the code though...

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Quote from: jacob019 on April 27, 2014, 01:08:36 PM

Network hash rate is up to 524 TH/s, best I've seen. Expected time to block is down to 15 hours, really great!

I'm operating a 0% fee node on a fast server in Chicago.
http://p2pool.1js.us
Come mine with us!

The hash rate seems to jump around quite a bit. I think I finally understand why. p2pool doesn't really know what the hash rate is. It just does an estimate based on how many shares are being found per time period. Since that varies with pool share difficulty, it keeps swinging around. Pool share difficulty goes up, shares/time goes down, apparent hashrate decreases. Then pool share difficulty goes down to compensate, shares/time goes up, and apparent hashrate increases. Rinse and repeat.

M

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Cryptomancer

Network hash rate is up to 524 TH/s, best I've seen. Expected time to block is down to 15 hours, really great!

I'm operating a 0% fee node on a fast server in Chicago.
http://p2pool.1js.us
Come mine with us!

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Quote from: PatMan on April 27, 2014, 06:22:16 AM

I noticed bfgminer are working on integrating SSL/TLS support in their miner - I've been looking through p2pool documentation but can't find any info on weather p2pool supports it or not.....anybody shed some light on this for me?

Peace.

If you're using a local node it shouldn't matter.

M

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Quote from: cathoderay on April 26, 2014, 09:51:32 AM

Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on April 26, 2014, 09:02:19 AM

Oh, and I can confirm that merged mining works fine still as I now have block rewards for IXC, NMC, and DVC.

jonnybravo - would you mind telling me what ports (rpc & p2p) you are using for your different coins?

I see so many different statements regarding this it's daft, & seeing as yours are confirmed working......

Thanks

For those of you interested in merge mining on your p2pool node, there's a great thread here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/a-complete-guide-to-p2pool-merged-mining-btcnmcdvcixci0c-plus-ltc-linux-62842

It's rather old, but the information in it is good. Below, I've put the *.conf files from my system, and the command I use to start my node. User names and passwords have been changed.

1) bitcoin.conf

server=1
rpcuser=BTCuser
rpcpassword=BTCpassword
rpcallowip=10.0.1.*
rpcport=8332

2) devcoin.conf

server=1
rpcuser=DVCuser
rpcpassword=DVCpassword
rpcallowip=10.0.1.*
rpcport=53333

3) ixcoin.conf

server=1
daemon=1
listen=1
rpcuser=IXCuser
rpcpassword=IXCpassword
rpcallowip=10.0.1.*
rpcport=8338

4) namecoin.conf

server=1
daemon=1
listen=1
rpcuser=NMCuser
rpcpassword=NMCpassword
rpcallowip=10.0.1.*
rpcport=7333

5) Node startup

nohup ./run_p2pool.py --give-author 0 --merged http://NMCuser:[email protected]:7333 --merged http://IXCuser:[email protected]:8338 --merged http://DVCuser:[email protected]:53333 -a NODEWALLETADDRESS BTCuser BTCpassword > /dev/null 2>&1 &

Hope this helps!

PatMan

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Watch out for the "Neg-Rep-Dogie-Police".....

I noticed bfgminer are working on integrating SSL/TLS support in their miner - I've been looking through p2pool documentation but can't find any info on weather p2pool supports it or not.....anybody shed some light on this for me?

Peace.

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Thank you, I'll see if they can fix it on their end then.

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Let the chips fall where they may.

Quote from: PublicP2poolNode on April 25, 2014, 11:40:38 AM

Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on April 24, 2014, 11:31:00 PM

p2pool supports stratum.

Maybe I'm missing a step in my setup to get stratum working?

The problem is that P2Pool auto-detects if the miner is using the old get-work protocol. However, most stratum proxies auto-detect stratum pools by trying to use getwork first. An option to disable this auto-detection on either side would be nice.

Would probably be difficult with the P2Pool software since the listening port is also overloaded for the stats page.
Edit: I suppose P2Pool can start sending out the X-Stratum: (not sure about spelling) header directing such clients... to the same port they connected on.

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good to see that some farm have do some test on P2Pool to evaluate the reward and the available share job ...

http://imageshack.com/a/img843/1953/d1jm.jpg

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Don't let the nam-shub in your operating system.

Quote from: xgtele on April 25, 2014, 11:51:28 PM

They are one of us..

I agree, I just like to know my family better.... Cool

andmax

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I have just setup my own node in Perth Western Australia if anyone wants to check it out go to p2poolmining.hopto.org:9332 feel free to mine on it 0% fee. I'm looking a getting a few Antminer S1's in the next couple of weeks to boost up the hash power. Grin

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Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on April 26, 2014, 09:02:19 AM

Oh, and I can confirm that merged mining works fine still as I now have block rewards for IXC, NMC, and DVC.

jonnybravo - would you mind telling me what ports (rpc & p2p) you are using for your different coins?

I see so many different statements regarding this it's daft, & seeing as yours are confirmed working......

Thanks

smooth

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Quote from: jedimstr on April 26, 2014, 09:08:54 AM

You get additional 0.5% of the total block reward for finding the block. At least according to the wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool

The code agrees. Divides total reward by 200 in generate_transaction.

jonnybravo0311

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You know, it's funny. I've read that wiki like 1000 times and just completely missed that. I think my brain said, "Yeah, you'll never find a block, so no need to worry about that bonus. Not storing this information.".

Thanks for pointing it out for me

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Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on April 26, 2014, 09:02:19 AM

Does p2pool offer a reward to the block finder? If so, how much?

You get 0.5% bonus for finding the block.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool#Payout_logic

Edit: Oops, I took too much time finding the link lol. Tongue

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Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on April 26, 2014, 09:02:19 AM

And with all the hashing power coming onboard, it was my little S1 that found the block this morning Grin

I'm just excited - it's the first block I've found!

Oh, and I can confirm that merged mining works fine still as I now have block rewards for IXC, NMC, and DVC.

Just curious about one thing. I must have gotten a reward for finding the block. Because the amount "mined" my S1 shows in my wallet is way above what the expected payout graphs show on my node.

Does p2pool offer a reward to the block finder? If so, how much?

You get additional 0.5% of the total block reward for finding the block. At least according to the wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool

smooth

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Quote from: jonnybravo0311 on April 26, 2014, 09:02:19 AM

And with all the hashing power coming onboard, it was my little S1 that found the block this morning Grin

I'm just excited - it's the first block I've found!

Oh, and I can confirm that merged mining works fine still as I now have block rewards for IXC, NMC, and DVC.

Just curious about one thing. I must have gotten a reward for finding the block. Because the amount "mined" my S1 shows in my wallet is way above what the expected payout graphs show on my node.

Does p2pool offer a reward to the block finder? If so, how much?

I think it's 1%?

jonnybravo0311

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And with all the hashing power coming onboard, it was my little S1 that found the block this morning Grin

I'm just excited - it's the first block I've found!

Oh, and I can confirm that merged mining works fine still as I now have block rewards for IXC, NMC, and DVC.

Just curious about one thing. I must have gotten a reward for finding the block. Because the amount "mined" my S1 shows in my wallet is way above what the expected payout graphs show on my node.

Does p2pool offer a reward to the block finder? If so, how much?

smooth

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Possibly malware causing the p2pool growth? Look over at the eligius thread. There is apparently someone using a TCP exploit to trick miners into connecting to their own pool. The pool to which people are being redirected could easily be a p2pool node with -f 100 or something similar.

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