I used this guide and have P2Pool running great for the past week on BTC and LTC mining. I tried to setup merged mining with NMC a couple days ago, and I don't know how to determine if I am successful (I am running the BTC pool with the --merged option). I continue to receive BTC and LTC shares and payments, but so far not anything for NMC. I grep'd the log for namecoin and nothing comes up. What should the output show to determine if I am actually mining NMC?
namecoind getinfo
{
"version" : 32466,
"balance" : 0.00000000,
"blocks" : 46917,
"connections" : 36,
"proxy" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"difficulty" : 567311.97122097,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"testnet" : false,
"keypoololdest" : 1331581095,
"paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
"mininput" : 0.00010000,
"errors" : ""
}
Thanks again for a great guide, Thiago!
You're welcome!!! ^_^
At the P2Pool window, look for the message: "Got merged mining"...
If you see this message, it is working.
If your P2Pool can not connect on the daemon passed with the --merged option, you'll see a huge error!
Anyway, merged mining within p2pool is still solo mining for the alt-chains, I mean, it will take time to find a Namecoin block, when you find one, you'll receive 50 Namecoins.
Bitcoin and Litecoin P2Pool is a pool as word says...
Forrestv in the future will implement real merged mining for alt-chains (I believe he will).
Best!
Thiago
I had exactly the same question as ragnard, but you both got me covered now. Thanks!
