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hero member
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What's your stale rate?

6.3%, but when mining with p2pool, stalerate doesn't really matter as EVERY miner has lots of stales. You don't even need to put that into the equation.
legendary
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What's your stale rate?

EDIT: Sorry, I see that you have that on your website. I should have looked first.
sr. member
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Crypt'n Since 2011
If you setup namecoin merged mining and paid out on both, I might switch my miner. That would reduce variance on the altchain giving your pool an advantage over p2pool.

I'll work on that this weekend.
legendary
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Ended up paying 0.001 transaction fee which is about 20% of the pool fee.  If someone can show me how to avoid that transaction fee, I would be happy to payout every block
You can include any kind of transaction of any size for free in your own blocks, this might require patching of your bitcoind though.

My suggestion:

Payout on these 2 conditions:
Either your pool (within P2pool) hits a block, then the whole remaining balance gets cleared via a free sendmany included in your block.
Or pay out with one sendmany per day (e.g. at 13:37 UTC) to everyone who has a balance of >0.3 (up to debate, but along these lines) Bitcoins.

Any regular miner then would quite get their daily payouts.
Irregular miners or people who just submit a handful of shares and then leave still get paid once your pool pops a block - they are anyways only having very small amounts of Bitcoins on your "bank" and it will eventually be cleared. You can easily give estimates about how often these "balance resets" happen depending on your pool's hash rate.
hero member
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If you setup namecoin merged mining and paid out on both, I might switch my miner. That would reduce variance on the altchain giving your pool an advantage over p2pool.
sr. member
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Crypt'n Since 2011
I tried a sendmany payout every solved block see transaction http://blockchain.info/tx-index/2888989/384c1f32cc25d38c62b7b4fd2c85122582cb5bcfa8d78d63d7f7f1a6042656e2.  Ended up paying 0.001 transaction fee which is about 20% of the pool fee.  If someone can show me how to avoid that transaction fee, I would be happy to payout every block

EDIT:  Read up about transaction fees and Bitcoin.  Looks like sub 0.01 transactions cause fees in sendmany. I guess i could still lower the payout threshold to 0.1 if a lot of people request it.  Currently there is only one other miner using the pool besides my own (Is this thing a non starter?). The most recent subsidy (block 70) is from me Smiley
hero member
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I am going to try out the sendmany method to distribute payments everytime a block is confirmed, but it is going to take a couple of days.

Which pools payout at such a low balance?  Eligius is 0.67108864 .

You can set whatever you want the payout to be on Slush's and MtRed.
hero member
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You might end up with "bitdust" - nearly worthless microtransactions that cause high transaction fees in the current vanilla client and bloat the blockchain. If you don't even trust the Poolop for ~2USD, you might consider mining in P2pool on your own imho.

A nice extension would be to pay out via generation transactions though, but I'm not sure how/if this would work with P2pool seeing your pool just as one big miner.

I trust the pool operator, it was just that other pools pay at like 0.1-0.01 BTC and this one pays at 0.5 BTC

I am going to try out the sendmany method to distribute payments everytime a block is confirmed, but it is going to take a couple of days.

Which pools payout at such a low balance?  Eligius is 0.67108864 .

Well EclipseMC pays what ever balance is confirmed, no minimum as such. DeepBit also pays at 0.01 Tongue I guess a few more pay at 0.01 and 0.1 Smiley



All of the places you are talking about have "accounts" where people can log in and choose their preferred payout amount.  P2PMining, like Eligius, doesn't have accounts.  People just use their payment address as their username.  Probably the only safe way to let people specify their preferred payout amount (vs setting it to some reasonable default, which is what JayCoin has done thus far) is to create some web page where people can submit their preference digitally signed by their payout address's private key.

That's a fair amount of effort, would be not entirely obvious for people to understand, and has minimal benefit because IMHO the existing minimum is pretty reasonable (who want's to get paid one nickel at a time anyway?)
sr. member
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You might end up with "bitdust" - nearly worthless microtransactions that cause high transaction fees in the current vanilla client and bloat the blockchain. If you don't even trust the Poolop for ~2USD, you might consider mining in P2pool on your own imho.

A nice extension would be to pay out via generation transactions though, but I'm not sure how/if this would work with P2pool seeing your pool just as one big miner.

I trust the pool operator, it was just that other pools pay at like 0.1-0.01 BTC and this one pays at 0.5 BTC

I am going to try out the sendmany method to distribute payments everytime a block is confirmed, but it is going to take a couple of days.

Which pools payout at such a low balance?  Eligius is 0.67108864 .

Well EclipseMC pays what ever balance is confirmed, no minimum as such. DeepBit also pays at 0.01 Tongue I guess a few more pay at 0.01 and 0.1 Smiley

sr. member
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Crypt'n Since 2011
You might end up with "bitdust" - nearly worthless microtransactions that cause high transaction fees in the current vanilla client and bloat the blockchain. If you don't even trust the Poolop for ~2USD, you might consider mining in P2pool on your own imho.

A nice extension would be to pay out via generation transactions though, but I'm not sure how/if this would work with P2pool seeing your pool just as one big miner.

I trust the pool operator, it was just that other pools pay at like 0.1-0.01 BTC and this one pays at 0.5 BTC

I am going to try out the sendmany method to distribute payments everytime a block is confirmed, but it is going to take a couple of days.

Which pools payout at such a low balance?  Eligius is 0.67108864 .
sr. member
Activity: 467
Merit: 250
You might end up with "bitdust" - nearly worthless microtransactions that cause high transaction fees in the current vanilla client and bloat the blockchain. If you don't even trust the Poolop for ~2USD, you might consider mining in P2pool on your own imho.

A nice extension would be to pay out via generation transactions though, but I'm not sure how/if this would work with P2pool seeing your pool just as one big miner.

I trust the pool operator, it was just that other pools pay at like 0.1-0.01 BTC and this one pays at 0.5 BTC
legendary
Activity: 2618
Merit: 1007
You might end up with "bitdust" - nearly worthless microtransactions that cause high transaction fees in the current vanilla client and bloat the blockchain. If you don't even trust the Poolop for ~2USD, you might consider mining in P2pool on your own imho.

A nice extension would be to pay out via generation transactions though, but I'm not sure how/if this would work with P2pool seeing your pool just as one big miner.
sr. member
Activity: 467
Merit: 250
Why not reduce the minimum payout amount ? Make it instant pay as-soon-as its confirmed ?

sr. member
Activity: 409
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Crypt'n Since 2011
Tesing subsidies on the server.  I will be crediting the previous subsidy to current miners to test the update (Start mining now to get the biggest portion).

P2Pmining block 61 is the only subsidy actually received.  The other earlier blocks indicating subsidies were internal test transactions.

EDIT: Back pay of subsidy completed. Thank you for your support.
member
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Very good idea. I will be watching. Thanks.
hero member
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Shit. Forgot about subsidies, my bad. I checked the transaction log.  Received 0.09092350 on Tuesday.  I will code in to credit miners for subsidies ASAP.  Thanks for the heads up.

Nice to see you don't keep them, that basically pays for the fee in itself.
sr. member
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Crypt'n Since 2011
This may have been asked or answered somewhere, but what happens when you receive subsidies, do you keep them for yourself or are they calculated into all the miners payouts?

Shit. Forgot about subsidies, my bad. I checked the transaction log.  Received 0.09092350 on Tuesday.  I will code in to credit miners for subsidies ASAP.  Thanks for the heads up.
hero member
Activity: 686
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This may have been asked or answered somewhere, but what happens when you receive subsidies, do you keep them for yourself or are they calculated into all the miners payouts?
vip
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The source is modified to only serve difficulty 1 shares.  P2pool calculates the hash rate based on the work submitted and I just log those hash rates at a regular interval and use that to calculate the reward distribution.  It's not as sexy as modding the code to capture actual shares submitted but it works out mathematically the same and it is easier to maintain as the p2pool code gets updated.  I'm just learning Python.  Once I examine the p2pool source some more and get more comfortable with Python, I will probably modify the code so that I can capture actual shares submitted, or I could just ask forrestv if he could just add that capability.
Ah very nice. I think pools like this are a great idea for small miners. Goat was talking about wanting something similar.

If you tracked the miner's shares, you should be able to figure out rewards on merged mining chains too. I'm sure this could be exposed as another page of json with not too much work. Ask in the main p2pool thread or maybe #p2pool in irc.

yeah, this is awesome. Smiley  I will be watching this!
hero member
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The source is modified to only serve difficulty 1 shares.  P2pool calculates the hash rate based on the work submitted and I just log those hash rates at a regular interval and use that to calculate the reward distribution.  It's not as sexy as modding the code to capture actual shares submitted but it works out mathematically the same and it is easier to maintain as the p2pool code gets updated.  I'm just learning Python.  Once I examine the p2pool source some more and get more comfortable with Python, I will probably modify the code so that I can capture actual shares submitted, or I could just ask forrestv if he could just add that capability.
Ah very nice. I think pools like this are a great idea for small miners. Goat was talking about wanting something similar.

If you tracked the miner's shares, you should be able to figure out rewards on merged mining chains too. I'm sure this could be exposed as another page of json with not too much work. Ask in the main p2pool thread or maybe #p2pool in irc.
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