Topic: [ANN][CSC] CasinoCoin - Pool Discussion. UPDATE to V 1.2.x May 19th 2014 - page 2. (Read 13493 times)

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[ANN] [P2POOL] [LTC] [DGC] [WDC] [CRC] [CSC] [DOGE] e-pool.net
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Introducing..  Casinocoin Pool

     stratum+tcp://csc.e-pool.net:8840

For getwork clients replace stratum+tcp:// with http://

No registration required. Just join, mine and get paid.

     cgminer -o stratum+tcp://csc.e-pool.net:8840 -u YourWalletAddress -p anypassword --scrypt --queue 0 --scan-time 5 --expiry 10

Currently in a very early phase, so results may vary. Also suport for LTC, DGC, WDC, CRC, DOGE visit : http://e-pool.net for info!

Thanks!

Thanks murderouskirk! It is a thankless job but just a little appreciation goes a long way

The Casinocoin p2pool specs were recently changed (thanks gururise and Rav3nPL) and I think the changes will help smaller miners. There are a few drawbacks to p2pool and being a smaller miner on a node with larger miners is one of them.

Before the Casinocoin p2pool was giving out shares every 15 seconds. This has been reduced to 5 seconds. This 3 fold increase in shares I believe may help more miners get shares more often. In other words, there is now 3x the chance that you get a share for payment. Once you do get a share we have the p2pool set to keep paying you for the next 60 blocks even if you don't get any more shares during that time.

Also, the amount of time for the p2pool to determine the share difficulty has been reduced from 200 to 60 shares. In theory this is suppose to allow the pool to adjust the share difficulty faster. I am not familiar with this setting so I am relying on other experience with this.

Please provide feedback as we are willing to keep changing the specs to best support the coin. I personally would like to see the DOA rate decreased.

P2Pools are difficult for miners. The mining console does not look as nice with the constant request for restarts. I understand that a lot of miners like non-p2pool's because of the ease of mining and web interface...have been thinking about opening up some other types of pools but it is nice not having any responsibility for people's coins or concerns about accounts being hacked. Also, although I hear it is better these days...push pools are known to be unreliable to operate.

I do really like the idea of p2pool pools, the only issue I have with them is that in my experience smaller miners do not get paid anything. I do realize this may have just been from when the p2pool was overloaded and needed more nodes, but it may be worth running some tests to make sure everyone including small miners gets their fair coin now. (I did get plenty of coin from you pool as a small miner before it got overloaded.) Really not trying to bash on your pool here I mean no offense, you've always done a solid and respectable job, and I think p2pools are a necessity as the mpos architecture sometimes blows up. Just might be something to dig into and research a bit to further stabilize the CSC mining community. Would make me more comfortable with MooPool knowing that if all of MPOS goes down the p2pool nodes can handle the load. Keep up the good work, glad you're a part of the CSC mining community.

Just as a reminder P2Pool is decentralized so if one node gets taken down the rest are not affected. There are no accounts or coins stored by the pool. No confirmations to wait for....your coins are sent to you as soon as a block is found. Every block found is simultaneously announced across all the wallets in the P2Pool so there are less orphans encountered.

The source code is freely available for you to start your own P2Pool node that you can keep private for your personal mining needs. You wont need to trust any pool operators or their ability to keep the pool running.

I believe P2Pool is beneficial to maintain the security of the blockchain.

Looks pretty broken: https://github.com/CartmanSPC/p2pool/blob/master/p2pool/bitcoin/networks.py#L292 also line 313 and 334

All Casinocoin P2Pool operators should update to the latest version at https://github.com/CartmanSPC/p2pool

As the pool owner of https://www.megamineros.com/CSC i request all other Pool owners to stop bashing each other. We all had startup issues and problems. I was one of the first CSC pools and my servers crashed when mining went from 5 to 150 MHash in less than 24 hours and i lost most users to the other pools. I learned my lesson and i am happy now running only 15 MHash.

If there really are security issues at this moment all the pool owners should know about that so they can take security measures. Even more, most pushpools these days are using TheSerapher/php-mpos software as their frontent, if there are issues with it we need to know and have them fixed in the software because that would not only affect CSC but the entire mining community!

If hackers get into our network they can take the entire CSC coin down with it! Now its not an issue yet but if CSC is going to be used in online casinos we must need to have a stable coin and mining network because otherwise transactions will not be executed with the speed necessary. Mining is about finding blocks for now, but will transit to living of transaction fees in the future. If casino users will not have their transactions being processed because of mining network issues, it will be the end of CSC very fast and thus our profit as well!

So please lets stand together on this! All mining pool owners should be in contact with each other in case of problems or issues (maybe we should create a mailing list for that, including the coin owners)! I already mentioned it various times in the past that Mega Mineros was the only one that secured its web access with SSL. I got ridiculed for that as well bij others but all other pools should do the same, it will cost you about $100 and a few hours of your time but installing SSL certificates is not that much work but can help a lot in keeping at least your users logins safe! No guarantee but all small things help. If others now of steps that will improve security i would like to know as well!

The chain is as strong as the weakest link! That counts for both security measures as the entire CSC mining network and difficulty as well. We need to stand together if we want to make this a success.

Kind Regards,
Andre

PS: I also crossposted this on the main CSC forum, sorry for that but i felt this needed more attention

My pool has had 60 confirms from the day 1. I'm not exactly sure what would be the benefit of fewer confirmations, 60 confirmations only take about 30 minutes or so. But, ask and thou shall receive. I dropped it to 20 confirmations, is that low enough?