My hashrate isn't even registering on the pool anymore, even though I stil get "Yay's" from the miner.
If your hashrate isn't visible in the pool stats, then there is something wrong indeed.
But if you're still getting Yay's, if your hashrate is visible and you're just not getting payments, it could be an unlucky streak.
P2Pools measure share differently, your miner get low difficulty work so it can report its hashrate regularly, but you get an actual share only when you sold the actual pool difficulty.
To take an analogy, mining is a bit like a dice roll, and matching difficulty means getting a roll below a certain number, on P2Pool you'll typically be in the following situation:
- actual pool shares require a roll below 5 (that's when your share is counted)
- your worker is told you need a roll below 8 (that's when it will Yay!)
So if your worker rolls a 7, it'll Yay but the pool will only use it to update hashrate statistics. If your worker rolls a 3, then it'll Yay and the pool will update hashrate stats and count a share. No work is ever lost, but figuring actual share isn't obvious.
Also if difficulty suddenly ramp up, your worker will Yay as usual, but won't get any actual share.
