Topic: Using the relay network (Read 701 times)

I have set up a P2POOL mining node along with bitcoin classic running (I wont turn this into a core vs classic debate), and it seems to be good. I added the relay nodes using addnode= in the bitcoin conf file. Is this enough? This is more to reduce orphan risk if my miners were to failover from CKs pool and then hit a block here. With 6mbps of upstream (up to) and quality of service set at 2.5mbps for this machine, I hope that is enough to propagate blocks quickly.

This is a backup in case CKs pool is DDoSed again. To be fair, I think more people should host something like this and have solo mining as a final backup ON THEIR OWN NODES because DDoSing all the major pools would be a sure way to bring the bitcoin network down to a crawl. Any friends I know who are into mining are using this as their final backup, primary is their usual pool, second is CKs solo pool, third will be mine. The IP is static but not public on any forum. This sort of set up more should create, as you never know, bitcoin is very vulnerable I think if you DDoS two major pools for example, (say, F2Pool and Slush) you can easily slow down transaction processing greatly! This is on my dedicated 'server' machine at home which is behind a UPS. This has been a concern of mine for a while, its not as decentralized as it should be. At least with this, transactions still get propagated and some of the miners will end up with a tidy sum of the block reward! This would increase the strength of the network greatly. Plus if a major pool suddenly decided to go offline you wouldn't need to wait for a difficulty retarget to fix transaction processing.

Have I set up the relay network correctly for this purpose? Should I also add the nodes of all major pools?

I won't ask anyone to mine here as a backup as that involves a degree of trust which CK is already good for that, what is needed here is more individual pool miners to do a set up like this, its very simple to do and could save a lot of trouble if someone decides to have a go at the major pools.