what is the best p2pool right now paying instantly? like to try mining digitalcoin
All p2pools should pay out instantly. Try to find one close to you with good efficiency %.
Bringing up another p2pool on the East Coast of America.
This one is on the West Coast: dgc.xpool.net:8810
actually there's almost no point in being close to the pool. i have reports from west coast USA miners to get accurate payouts from my pool which is located in europe. any ping less than 300ms is okay with stratum.
He was asking about p2pools. From what I have read it is better to find the lowest latency to your p2pool.
Here is one of the sources where I got this from:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153232.0;allExcerpts:
Reasons to use P2Pool as your mining pool- You are in charge.
- No single point of failure in the pool
- There are small statistical advantages increasing income vs traditional pools
P2pool's advantages for miners looking for better incomes
Fees are optional and transactions are paid to miners. On average, if your miners have latencies comparable to the other miners on P2Pool, you should have more income on P2Pool than on any other pool. In fact you should expect as much (or more, see point below) income as you would have solo mining with reduced variance thanks to other P2Pool miners contributing their own hashrate.
P2Pool blocks are quickly broadcasted to the Bitcoin network through all the bitcoind nodes used by the whole P2Pool network. If another pool finds a block at the same time than P2Pool, it probably is at a disadvantage: that's more income for P2Pool on average.
What matters for good P2Pool results: low latenciesOn average a miner on a classic pool needs to react to a new coinbase every 10 minutes. Every 10 minutes a miner on any pool can submit a share based on a block that isn't the last one anymore. This is wasted effort: it doesn't help generate the next block in the chain and the pool suffers from this. Most pools reject such work and ignore it when they compute miners' rewards.
Miners are often separated from their pools by long-distance networks with tens or hundreds of milliseconds of latency. This means that every 10 minutes a miner on a normal pool is wasting its efforts for at least tens or hundreds of milliseconds. This is why there are rejects even on properly tuned classic setups: for 10ms of latency between miner and pool on average you should expect 0.01/(60*10) = 0.0016%:
Latency | Expected rejects |
10ms | 0.0016% |
100ms | 0.016% |
1s | 0.16% |
Conclusion: on a traditional pool, relatively high latencies aren't such a big deal.
On P2Pool, the tracking of the proof of work is implemented by a sharechain which mirrors several properties of the Bitcoin blockchain:
- A share is a proof of work with a given difficulty
- A share uses the previous share in its input to make a sharechain like blocks do to build the blockchain
- It builds on a block template given by a Bitcoin node: a share hitting the Bitcoin difficulty can become a block too
- It's difficulty is dynamically adjusted to maintain a fixed average rate of share generation (one every 10 seconds)
The last point means that having a low latency is important for a P2Pool miner. Pay attention to the fact that a share being submitted too late to enter the sharechain can still produce a block so it's not wasted work (high reject rates are not a problem for global income on P2Pool unlike rejects on traditional pools). This said as the rejected share isn't in the sharechain it won't count as a proof of work for the purpose of distributing the pool's income.
Ok, I'll stop short of quoting the whole thing now