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Topic: Additional subsidy for P2Pool users: 1-3btc/day - page 4. (Read 29354 times)
Setting up one server for multiple miners isn't that much more work. I think the bigger issue, and it is more easily solved, is monitoring. I think a monitoring tool like BAMT's mgpumon would really help push some farms over, especially if it could send out alerts of idle miners (like many pools do). I'll put up 5BTC for any monitor that I can access over ssh with a browser to monitor rigs running cgminer to a single p2pool node. And another .5 for 10 days to join coretechs if someone can tell me how to do it from a gui wallet.
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Integration would be really helpful. For bigger miners with lots of nodes, the current setup is pretty flexible though. Just run it on a box with bitcoind and point all your miners there. Do what is right for bitcoin and benefit - no more DDoS outages and better control of your hashing power.
I'm donating to miners on p2pool
Anyone feel like matching?
I'm donating to miners on p2pool
Anyone feel like matching?
I still like the idea of cgminer p2pool integration. If joining was as easy as running your bitcoin software and just starting cgminer with -p2pool option, a lot more people would join, especially newbies, since starting one program with one option is way simpler than signing up on a pool web page and setting up custom configuration on a miner to connect to it. As far as I understand it, everything the miner and p2oool need to work (bitcoin address, localhost) it can already grab automatically from your own system.
I've completed the distribution of my 20 BTC ($120) of subsidies. I'm happy to see that p2pool has grown during this time.
I won't be restarting the subsidies for now, because it seems that they weren't making a big difference: the bottleneck to p2pools growth appears to be simplicity and ease of use at this point rather than the need for financial incentive. If Forrest tackles these issues and the bottleneck to growth becomes merely inertia, I might restart subsidizing the pool.
I won't be restarting the subsidies for now, because it seems that they weren't making a big difference: the bottleneck to p2pools growth appears to be simplicity and ease of use at this point rather than the need for financial incentive. If Forrest tackles these issues and the bottleneck to growth becomes merely inertia, I might restart subsidizing the pool.
Also, this is OT and may be addressed somewhere in the main pool thread: my earnings over the last ~2.5 days seem lower than in a normal pool. Is this just a matter of the short time I've been measuring, or is there some other factor?
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
I think it's the high variability. There were times when I got nothing for two days, or 0.07btc, and once I got 0.49btc. I also got two 0.01 subsidy payments. I'm hoping over the course of a week/ month it will average be the same as what I get on a regular pool. (550mhash here)
New miners: I'd be interested to know to what extent the subsidies affected your decision to join p2pool.
The subsidies got me to invest the time/risk to try it out (risk being, I'm more concerned about my p2pool instance dying and my miner not failing over, or something like that.) Unfortunately with my measly hashrate (360) I haven't received any subsidies yet. Still, I appreciate them!
Also, this is OT and may be addressed somewhere in the main pool thread: my earnings over the last ~2.5 days seem lower than in a normal pool. Is this just a matter of the short time I've been measuring, or is there some other factor?
Thanks again.
New miners: I'd be interested to know to what extent the subsidies affected your decision to join p2pool.
I found out about them after I moved. My reason for moving were low mining fees and distributed mining as opposed to centralization, so bonuses are a plus. (Only other low interest pool I knew of was Eligius, and I didn't want to be there)
New miners: I'd be interested to know to what extent the subsidies affected your decision to join p2pool.
Helped move me over
The subsidies are continuing to roll in:
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New miners: I'd be interested to know to what extent the subsidies affected your decision to join p2pool.
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New miners: I'd be interested to know to what extent the subsidies affected your decision to join p2pool.
Yeah, setup wasn't too bad. I've already got a couple shares in on the current round. Documentation could use some work, but otherwise everything else looks good.
Yeah, the setup instructions make it seem to be way more complicated than it actually is. Just download files, copy/paste command line commands with changes to your own login/password, and you're set.
Yeah, setup wasn't too bad. I've already got a couple shares in on the current round. Documentation could use some work, but otherwise everything else looks good.
I love the idea of p2pool, but I hate reconfiguring my miners. Sounds like p2pool is big enough that it's worth trying out. Here goes...
Hey, thank you for your donations ! 
Taking total output and subtracting the change: 7.6095 - 5.60998331 = 1.99951669, which is 2 coins. I'm not entirely sure why it results in such a weird number, it's clearly had the 0.0005 min fee subtracted from it and that yielded some weird rounding problem. BitcoinD uses floats in its API (not a good choice), which is probably the reason.
That seems like asking for trouble. Ah well, thanks for distributing it though.
There we go:
http://blockchain.info/tx-index/14404129/4df64f4cd9a59d1f318ad912e97528730c3fa001fb73c035d8208decae6b9e2c
The TX looks weird (does not spend your output) because I'm using the accounts feature of bitcoind.
Taking total output and subtracting the change: 7.6095 - 5.60998331 = 1.99951669, which is 2 coins. I'm not entirely sure why it results in such a weird number, it's clearly had the 0.0005 min fee subtracted from it and that yielded some weird rounding problem. BitcoinD uses floats in its API (not a good choice), which is probably the reason.
I originally intended to whip up a bitcoinj based app for doing this, in order to keep the transactions clean, but I haven't added support for send-manys to it yet so it wasn't possible. Perhaps after the next release.
BTW I've also been distributing coins every day at 12:00 CET, I just didn't bother posting all the tx hashes. There's still money left to claim.
http://blockchain.info/tx-index/14404129/4df64f4cd9a59d1f318ad912e97528730c3fa001fb73c035d8208decae6b9e2c
The TX looks weird (does not spend your output) because I'm using the accounts feature of bitcoind.
Taking total output and subtracting the change: 7.6095 - 5.60998331 = 1.99951669, which is 2 coins. I'm not entirely sure why it results in such a weird number, it's clearly had the 0.0005 min fee subtracted from it and that yielded some weird rounding problem. BitcoinD uses floats in its API (not a good choice), which is probably the reason.
I originally intended to whip up a bitcoinj based app for doing this, in order to keep the transactions clean, but I haven't added support for send-manys to it yet so it wasn't possible. Perhaps after the next release.
BTW I've also been distributing coins every day at 12:00 CET, I just didn't bother posting all the tx hashes. There's still money left to claim.
I'm going to do this as well, starting on Wednesday.
Do you have an address I can send some Instawallet leftovers to, for inclusion in your next "payout"?Sure. Anyone who trusts me to redistribute the coins correctly can send to:
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I'll put whatever arrives there into the next payout.
(edit: change address to keep others coins separate from my own)
My one-time contribution to the growth of p2pool:
tx: d1376a2b41a98cad308981afe133b0680f43bd20ac18395836d08a0341ffb035
A post when it's distributed would be great!
The 13 BTC was change, not a part of the donation. The donations are running at 2-3 BTC per day. If you don't do much mining you probably will never become eligible.
Seems I'm making a habit of overlooking the painfully obvious.
The 13 BTC was change, not a part of the donation. The donations are running at 2-3 BTC per day. If you don't do much mining you probably will never become eligible.
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I always shut off my miners mere hours before a big donation. 
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I'm a bit confused though.
EDIT: Using the quoted donation as an example:
I'm not mining ATM. Haven't mined at all for the past 11 hours. I still show up on http://forre.st:9332/patron_sendmany?total=5 (note the 5, 1HLXuWY1JC6j6RD2c6BUFCGyeqFrTZ9qAG).
If I am eligible for part of a 5 BTC donation after 11 hours of not mining,
shouldn't I have been eligible for part of a 13 BTC donation after 1.5 hours of not mining?
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How do you determine who gets a part of these bitcoins? Is it random? Or should everyone mining in p2pool be receiving them? If the latter, it isn't working perfectly, as I haven't received any bitcoins except for the generation. My address: 13ueEyoJY6c3cQk8ZgaAxhw3MeNYdpP3Te
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