I have a couple of questions.
1) How to configure my p2pool node as a full node that accepts incoming miners and properly reimburses them?
2) What in the HE double tooth pics happened between p2pool.in and p2pool.org? There seems to be something weird that happened and no search I have done on google or bitcointalk seems to provide any history or background. I went with the information provided by p2pool.org when I noticed the p2pool.in stats page appears to have stopped working sometime in 2015 between January and March. Being as it is now January 2017 it appears that p2pool.in was no longer providing network stats. Further research shows that p2pool.in was merged into p2pool.org's info when the GIT repository was changed from p2pool/forestv to p2pool/p2pool . Unfortunately there are still several places where there are dire warnings about using p2pool.org verses p2pool.in on various webpages and even on the old GIT for forestv. I heard references that forestv had taken a leave due to personal issues but I have not seen any official retraction stating that p2pool.org is ok to use.
The confusion surrounding question 2 needs to be addressed as I am thinking it is blocking many miners from choosing to go with p2pool in any form. Contradictory information often does not lead to wrong action, it leads to no action.
If this is too personal or touchy a subject then please email me with a response at dzimmerm56"at"g m a i l . c o m. (you will need to intelligently fix the addy, but I know all of you are intelligent)
Hi.
I have only been running a node for a month now but mining p2Pool on and off for a while now. I've decided to mine p2Pool for the forseable future.
Most of what you need to know can be found here
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/a-guide-for-mining-efficiently-on-p2pool-includes-fud-repellent-and-faq-153232And here
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/a-complete-guide-to-p2pool-merged-mining-btcnmcdvcixci0c-plus-ltc-linux-62842I run my node under Centos rather than Ubuntu.
It's not that difficult to do and most of the info in the first link, whilst a little old is still applicable.
It took about a week to fine tune my node and it runs really well.
I'm at
www.ukp2pool.uk and it's a free public node.
Give it a try on an old PC first if you don't have much experience with Linux just to make sure you can.
If you have any questions then post up here I'm sure the community will help.
No issues using git pull from the two links I posted.
I have the latest version from here have no problems.
I believe p2Pool.org is forest's site not sure about the other one. I've come across it and the stats are years old.
The pool is very much alive and well, just needs more Miners so jump aboard.
Don't let the variance between blocks worry you, sit back and smile with a decent pay out.
Both p2Pool.org and the other are just nodes on the network, just like mine.
There is no master node anywhere, under the hood they are all the same.