For those who PM'd me about initial testing on my BC paying node -
If all goes well, I may have my DOGE/LTC(etc) mining BC paying P2P node up and running tonight for initial testers. I had hell last night getting the node setup on a dedicated machine for some reason. The node just wasn't accepting any shares, even though my GPUs were working hard. So this morning I copied over the p2pool folder from the virtual machine I had been working on previously, and now it's accepting shares as it should. But I believe I need to let it run a few hours myself (just on my miners) before the P2P network starts paying out, as this node is on a separate internet line and looks brand new to the P2P network.
Will give an update later today, and if everything looks good later, I will send mining url details to those who have PM'd offering to help test.
Wonderful,
more and more pool for BC is good!
Just an update to this - closed testing started a little bit over 4 hours ago. We've got about 40 MH/s total on the node right now. Things are running very smoothly. Payments coming in have ramped up a good bit from the P2P network. Payments will be sent to BC miner addresses when I get home from work tomorrow (anywhere from 17-20 hours from now). A second set will then be sent the following morning (another 12 hours) to give any coins that were immature at node shut down time to mature. It's now midnight so I will be running a manual backup of the hash dbs and then go to sleep.
Also to those mining on the node, your estimate BC mined is only based off the matured coins. Right now we've got a balance of ~5000 and ~12400 immature dogecoins, so at this very moment your balance mined is underestimated by a fair amount. I don't believe it's possible to obtain immature balance via rpc call and display to you a "pending BC" mined estimate, but I will look into that tomorrow.
Also, this is not planned for release until AFTER Radio gets his multipool up, so sometime next week. It is not auto profit switching, just meant to be a functioning failover and eventual expansion to more P2P nodes. Once it's up and running you can all point your mining configurations to Radio's profit switching multipool (to get the most BC being a profit optimizing pool) with the p2p node set as the failover. The BC empire shall expand from the giant multipool.
