Here's my node, which has 0% fees for nearly 1 whole month from now.
With P2Pool you get the following benefits:
- Transaction fees are paid to miners so you get payouts just as high as solo mining
- It almost completely avoids a 51% attack
- You don't have to trust a centralised server, as payments go directly into your own wallet!
- You can set up failover nodes so that you don't lose any shares if that one goes down. The share chain is shared across ALL P2Pool nodes.
The ONLY downside is the 24 hour share chain - this means that over the first 24 hours of mining your payments will ramp up to your final amount, but this doesn't mean you lose out on anything, because for 24 hours after you finish mining you get payouts that make up for it.
Seriously, I don't know why more people aren't using P2Pool. If you run a 24/7 miner and aren't using it you're hurting your own profits.
I'll even help others set up their own nodes to help us all secure the network. Just join #n00bsys0p on Freenode, or use the built in chat on any of my p2pool nodes.
Please do ask if anybody has any more questions...
EDIT: To use my p2pool node configure your miner as follows:
Pool URL: stratum+tcp://hiro.p2pool.n00bsys0p.co.uk:9408
User: Your wallet address
Password: Anything you like because P2Pool ignores it
You DO NOT need to set up workers, so if you have a few miners that have about the same power you can happily use the same address for all of them.
You should see your payments start to come in fairly fast. P2Pool on HIRO is finding blocks way more than once an hour.