Topic: How to run your own P2Pool in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with merged mining - page 2. (Read 54278 times)

If you want your p2pool node to be reachable by other nodes and/or miners, you must allow inbound network connections on ports 9333 for other nodes, and 9332 for miners.


If the port(s) above are open, most scanners will recognize your node automatically and list it on their sites.  Some you may need to request your IP be listed.  Merge mining is, essentially, solo mining and all block awards go directly to the node operator's coind core client wallet used when starting and running p2pool with the merge mining parameters.

I've got some noob questions. I'm an experienced miner, but have never set up or used p2pool, so sorry in advance for my ignorance.

If I follow this guide, won't the resulting p2pool node be largely unknown, and effectively private?

How do I go about "registering" the node so that people are aware of it and anyone can use it (including the name of the pool, terms, etc)?

I'm a little unclear about merge mining. It sounds like if merge mining is configured, that the resulting merge mining proceeds goes to the pool operator. Is that the case?

At the risk of sounding selfish, if I carve out processor resources, set up a public node, and pay for the bandwidth and power and collect no fees, I want to see if merge mining can help justify the operating costs.

p2pool is PPLNS so it's expected payout frequency is pretty much unrelated to your mining rate unless you are a large % of p2pool - or a VERY low hash rate.

It is of course related to the total p2pool mining rate ... which is how PPLNS works.

However, if your hash rate is too low to get a share as often as a block is found, then your payout frequency will be below the p2pool block finding rate.

the bitcoin node will need more than 32gb i would at least add another hdd for storing the bitcoin data

hi,

I am considering setup a p2pool for my own use and maybe some other friends.

What is currently the payout frequency expecting when having 10TH? is it once a 2-3 days or once a week or more often? This way at leat I know when something is wrong.

I know you cant use an exchange wallet but can you use wallet https://blockchain.info/  for p2pool?


Would this hardware setup be good enough?

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q1900-ITX/index.nl.asp

Intel® Quad-Core Processor J1900 and 8 ram and a 32GB SSD?


thanks!

thank you for answer my question..

your bitcoind port is not being forwarded in router. place your questions on the p2pool thread, more active there.

fwd port 8333,9332,9333 & 7333 (if merged mining)

stuck in this process, somebody can help me?

now got stuck here .... any suggestions ?

--2014-11-30 08:10:02--  (try: 3)  https://bitfetch.com/static/bootstrap.7z
Connecting to bitfetch.com (bitfetch.com)|176.9.50.103|:443...     

It's a great way to learn - any questions you have, just ask in the p2pool thread 

learning some linux ... doing it all step by step ... many thx to OP & other contributors. installing now & see how things goes.

To murdof and kyros - great work, thank you for the time and effort that you have put into this.
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Updated namecoind and huntercoind.

namecoind issues with merge coin mining are fixed.

adamswork just saw your post:

1. Yes you can use multiple p2pool nodes with same bitcoin address and shares submitted will increase your payouts.

2. Each algo has its own fork and it runs on different ports. So you can have on the same box different algos on same IP as they use different ports. So it is all up to having enough memory / CPU. Note that when you start the daemons they will take up a lot of CPU but after they get in sync they don't need much. How much memory you need? Well if you are running a VM make sure you have at least 1GB free without swapping. That's my rule of thumb and never had issues.

3. There is merge mining for VTC and for LTC. There is also announcement that DOGE will be merged minable with LTC.
Haven't checked for other algos. Maybe there aren't any as there is no strict leader in those algos...

Updated namecoind and huntercoind in binaries.

md5sum: ac912f6d457521b51b421a32f5fa4ad7

Note that after updating I got error that i had to repair the blockchain for namecoin.
I finally deleted the blockchain of namecoin and redownloaded.

I run one P2Pool BTC only server (no merged mining) that I managed to piece together almost by luck,  and I am migrating over to a different company and a new sever (once the block chains are downloaded).  I run the pool for my own personal use mainly (but don't mind others mining there).

I just wanted to say thanks for the guide.  I didn't use any of the scripts as I am trying to learn the process of making my own builds (and learn more about linux),  but good work on those too.

I plan on setting up Scrypt Merged Mining, and X11 DarkCoin as well,  as I have a pretty varied mining setup.

I want to eventually have lots of coins available for mining for great choice for me (and perhaps others) via P2Pool, mainly because I believe in the P2Pool concept, and think it is good for the community. I also want to pick up my game in Linux, and this is a good project for it. 

I have a few questions about P2Pool while I wait for the blockchain(s) to download:

1) As long as I use the same BTC address, migrating over to a new P2Pool will still track my submitted shares, and I lose nothing?

2)

a. As I want to run pools with SHA256, scrypt and X11....  should I consider using the same container/VM or should I consider segregating by either main coin being mined, or perhaps algorithm?

b. As I have a choice between a VM or a container (I have selected a container for my first one, but my next pool could be a VM), what do the experts on here recommend? Please note I will only be running P2Pool on the machine with the assorted block chains,  and the web front end for it.

c. Can I run multiple instances of P2Pool using screen, IOT work the offerings differently (ie. Pool X mines LiteCoins, with the other secondary merged coins, and Pool Y mines Doge, with the other secondary merged coins),  or do I have to run separate container's/VM's for each setup?

3) Anybody heard of any work on merged mining for the X11/13/other alogo's?

Thanks for your help,  and thanks again for the guide!

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand.  What's the benefit of pypy in this context? The only thing running Python in this guide is p2pool itself, and it's not like it's stressing out the CPU or anything.

I finally got it working, had to do the following, as the user I wanted to run p2pool as:

#sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

#easy_install --user -U twisted
#easy_install --user -U zope.interface

Now you can start it with "pypy ./run_p2pool.py" instead.. and benefit from the speed increases.

Thanks for a great guide, very helpful! Since pypy is so much faster, it would be great to see steps to get pypy happy added, if possible.

Thanks for the catch! I'll see what I can do to clean that up.

Sadly, RL has caught up with me, and I've been working 12+ hour days with regularity these last couple of months. Thankfully things are calming down now, so hopefully I'll have more time again to clean this up.