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Topic: [1500 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool - page 485. (Read 2591928 times)

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have a look here on p2pool list :

http://p2pool-nodes.info/

more than 50 public nodes are crunching less than 1G hash per sec or even zero, possibly waiting for Fedex to bring happiness again Wink
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Im wondering why p2pool went from a few people, To alot, then back down to a few... There are 21x people mining right now, There used to be 500+

p2pool.org != P2Pool network

I currently see 206 payout addresses in the sharechain.
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Okey Dokey Lokey
Im wondering why p2pool went from a few people, To alot, then back down to a few... There are 21x people mining right now, There used to be 500+
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Let's Talk Bitcoin is a twice weakly podcast about Bitcoin. I have emailed the host, Adam and requested a show about P2Pool. If you also think that it is a good idea to get some air time for this topic, the write and request it here: http://www.reddit.com/r/letstalkbitcoin

If you are a P2Pool developer or knows a lot about the inner workings and benefits of this system, I think it would be a good idea to contact Adam and go on the show and talk about it.

 Kiss

I am a p2pool developer.  This is already among the topics that I communicated with Stephanie that need to be better promoted and understood by the Bitcoin and Litecoin communities.
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WANTED: Active dev to fix & re-write p2pool in C
Does anyone have a p2pool that has all the merge-mined coins?
Namecoin, Devcoin, IOcoin? (I forget the rest)


Yup, I do.....

Edit: But I took i0coin off - too memory sucking & drive bashing.....BTC, IXC, DVC, GRC & NMC only for now.
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So sexy, it hurts.
Does anyone have a p2pool that has all the merge-mined coins?
Namecoin, Devcoin, IOcoin? (I forget the rest)
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Let's Talk Bitcoin is a twice weakly podcast about Bitcoin. I have emailed the host, Adam and requested a show about P2Pool. If you also think that it is a good idea to get some air time for this topic, the write and request it here: http://www.reddit.com/r/letstalkbitcoin

If you are a P2Pool developer or knows a lot about the inner workings and benefits of this system, I think it would be a good idea to contact Adam and go on the show and talk about it.

 Kiss
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Erg, variance and luck suck:

Pool Hashrate: 10482.5 GH/s
Estimated Time to Block: 9h 53m
Current Round: 2d 1h 41m

We need moar powah  Grin
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forrestv: maybe it's time to measure the Bitcoin p2pool hashrate in TH/s in the thread's title?



We had better find some blocks soon or you will have to measure the pool speed in Kh/s!

 Grin
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Erg, variance and luck suck:

Pool Hashrate: 10482.5 GH/s
Estimated Time to Block: 9h 53m
Current Round: 2d 1h 41m
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While I appreciate the props, p2Pool has been in the weekly pool stats on the blog since the start:

http://organofcorti.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/weekly-pool-statistics-29072012.html

This is the first time p2Pool was in my weekly stats.

Nice!  I stand corrected.  Didn't know you were lurking on this forum here Smiley

I checked back a few weeks on the blog entries, didn't see anything, and just assumed it hadn't been listed.  Didn't check all the way back to the start.

Very good charts/graphs.  Nice data crunching!

Josh
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I use this in the binary for p2pcoin's bitcoind:

Code: (init.cpp)
    const char* pszP2PCOIN = "[P2PCOINv0]";
    COINBASE_FLAGS << std::vector(pszP2PCOIN, pszP2PCOIN+strlen(pszP2PCOIN));

I also have command line options for -addtag and -addhextag that I use to add my personal tags.  They are done pretty much the same way.

Nice!  Sounds like a great idea.
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Are they the same every block or do they vary? Also, could you share what some of them are?
The last output in the coinbase is the special P2P hashchain commitment. It has zero value and it now looks like OP_RETURN PUSH .


Thanks gmaxwell. Is there anywhere a script could pull the special P2P hashchain commitment from if and when it changes (in order to do a regex search of the coinbase)? Or is that something you'd have to run a p2Pool node in order to do?

The will always be different and depends entirely on P2Pool's sharechain, so I don't think it's too useful. Instead, the second to last txout will always be to the donation address (1Kz5QaUPDtKrj5SqW5tFkn7WZh8LmQaQi4) and then you can match the template of the last txout (0 value to OP_RETURN PUSH ). Either of those alone is probably good enough, but combined should work very well.

Wow, that's great to know!  Good to know that there is a signature of sorts.

Curious if it would be a good feature for p2pool to add more of an obvious signature to its blocks?  I'm not that familiar with the block layout of Bitcoin, but going by previous blocks, there's certainly a facility there to embed some arbitrary text.  I would keep it very simple, just "P2Pool", so as not to take up much space.

Or, give the winning miner the opportunity to insert some text of their choice into their share/block (perhaps paid for out of their share, to make up for the loss of giving up space in the block that would otherwise hold more profitable transaction fees)?  I can see this being seriously misused, though, maybe best not to offer this feature.

Josh
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Are they the same every block or do they vary? Also, could you share what some of them are?
The last output in the coinbase is the special P2P hashchain commitment. It has zero value and it now looks like OP_RETURN PUSH .


Thanks gmaxwell. Is there anywhere a script could pull the special P2P hashchain commitment from if and when it changes (in order to do a regex search of the coinbase)? Or is that something you'd have to run a p2Pool node in order to do?

The will always be different and depends entirely on P2Pool's sharechain, so I don't think it's too useful. Instead, the second to last txout will always be to the donation address (1Kz5QaUPDtKrj5SqW5tFkn7WZh8LmQaQi4) and then you can match the template of the last txout (0 value to OP_RETURN PUSH ). Either of those alone is probably good enough, but combined should work very well.

Thanks forrestv. I didn't think of looking for the donation address to confirm.

That's what p2pool.info does, essentially.  Note, I would also suggest excluding any blocks that do not have at least 25 outputs.  There are some non-main p2pool installations running out there (either forks, or someone running their own mini-pool with the p2pool codebase).  They all have only a few people mining on them, as far as I know, so their blocks only have a handful of outputs (besides the donation address and the special last transaction).
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I suppose the current title reflects the weekly average (we are at 11.6TH/s for the last 24h).
I've been updating it to reflect the weekly average... daily is kinda noisy and I'd rather understate it during growth than have it bounce all over or be accused of sandbagging.
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forrestv: maybe it's time to measure the Bitcoin p2pool hashrate in TH/s in the thread's title?

I suppose the current title reflects the weekly average (we are at 11.6TH/s for the last 24h).
Looking at the monthly graph we have a sustained rise over the month with a sudden spike 3 days ago. We are tailing Eligius/Bitminter/Ozcoin, not there yet but not so much to add to catch up, it's 10TH/s+ time !

Good job of making p2pool ASIC friendly, seems many miners have found out p2pool is working beautifully for them.
Pyramining. Wink
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forrestv: maybe it's time to measure the Bitcoin p2pool hashrate in TH/s in the thread's title?

I suppose the current title reflects the weekly average (we are at 11.6TH/s for the last 24h).
Looking at the monthly graph we have a sustained rise over the month with a sudden spike 3 days ago. We are tailing Eligius/Bitminter/Ozcoin, not there yet but not so much to add to catch up, it's 10TH/s+ time !

Good job of making p2pool ASIC friendly, seems many miners have found out p2pool is working beautifully for them.
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p2pool really needs a fast clockspeed.  More cores won't make any difference. 

Only time I got decent performance from it was running it on an i3-3220.  3.3GHz, running bitcoin-qt with high priority on Windows.  It floated around 0.2s latency then.  On a Celeron 847 (dual 1.1GHz) it ran around 0.6-1.0s, and a Sempron X2 190 it was about 0.5s on average.

I thought (hoped) that the bigger caches of the Phenom and the ability to run p2pool code and bitcoind (which has a lot of threads) on more cores would have ended helping up GBT times... I was wrong Smiley

spiccioli
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p2pool really needs a fast clockspeed.  More cores won't make any difference. 

Only time I got decent performance from it was running it on an i3-3220.  3.3GHz, running bitcoin-qt with high priority on Windows.  It floated around 0.2s latency then.  On a Celeron 847 (dual 1.1GHz) it ran around 0.6-1.0s, and a Sempron X2 190 it was about 0.5s on average.
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nec sine labore
Can I say I'm disappointed?

I went from an AMD Sempron (with the second core unlocked by BIOS) to a six core Phenom II and GBT time is the same!

http://imgur.com/St1vbAO

WTF?

spiccioli
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