P2Pool is a distributed bitcoin mining pool. With p2pool, each miner runs a p2pool node and these nodes form a peer to peer network amongst themselves similar to how bitcoin, itself, does.
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p2pool latency - where best to host?
I read about latency on p2pool being a bad thing.
Is this latency between the miner and p2pool, or p2pool and the network, or both?
I am trying to decide if I should host p2pool on one of my servers ...
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p2pool transaction fees
When I start my p2pool, I use address XYZ as my payout address. I discovered that by starting CGMiner with the username as a valid payout address ABC, that the payments now go to ABC instead of XYZ. ...
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Merged Mining Disadvantages
What are the disadvantages of merged mining? I'm very interested in p2pool and since I have to "run my own server" I've been considering enabling merged mining.
Besides the obvious administration ...
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LTC transaction fees and p2pool
I'm experimenting with LTC p2pool mining. However, it generates lots of micropayments (0.02 LTC). Such small payments generate big transaction fees (in latest litecoin-qt from github). Example: 0.6 ...
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What's causing P2Pool's bad luck?
While looking at the current pool luck chart on p2pool.info, I noticed that the pool as a whole seems to slowly deviate from the predicted rate of finding blocks.
From the other chart it appears ...
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Specific namecoin address in merged mining
I want to do merged mining with P2Pool, and I want any generated namecoins to go to a specific namecoin address in my wallet. I haven't seen a way to configure this in P2Pool or namecoind, and ...
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What do all of the items in the output from p2pool mean?
2012-08-15 10:57:04.728547 P2Pool: 17401 shares in chain (9127 verified/17405 total) Peers: 11 (0 incoming)
2012-08-15 10:57:04.728781 Local: 1689MH/s in last 10.0 minutes Local dead on arrival: ...
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Can I run p2pool with a thin bitcoin client?
Everytime I restart my mining machine due to heat, I have to wait the following sequence to mine at p2pool:
bitcoind -> download blockchain & rescan -> p2pool -> download shares -> ...
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What is the P2Pool?
As I was checking this SE, it doesn't appear this important question has been asked:
What is the P2Pool? How does differ from the traditional approach and what does it offer its users?
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Why does the BFL Single produce ~50% stales with P2Pool?
I've heard from users on bitcointalk forums that the BFL single doesn't work with P2Pool as it produces about 50% rejected shares, which is insanely high.
Why is this?
Is it possible that the ...
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How well does P2Pool scale?
See this thread.
How would P2Pool scale if 10% of Bitcoin mining was done via it? 50%? 100%?
Is the current implementation scalable? If not, are there designs for making it scalable?
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Can you run P2Pool without having to keep the blockchain updated?
I'm guessing the answer is no, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
I'm running my miner off a USB pen at the moment and I'd like to run P2Pool but the main issue for me is there wouldn't be enough space ...
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How do I monitor the performance of my P2Pool instance?
Specifically, how can I tell whether I'm finding any shares? It's not clear from the extensive log output. The relevant line seems to be...:
Pool stales: 12% Own: 50±48% Own efficiency: 57±54%
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What are some reasons that a rational miner won't switch to P2Pool?
Besides the initial time investment of downloading & learning how to use a new tool ... what are some more reasons for a rational not to switch to P2Pool?
(Some reasons to switch is a slightly ...
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P2Pool - I get only rejects
I started mining with P2Pool / cgminer.
bitcoin-qt.exe is running. run_p2pool.exe is running. cgminer is running.
But all I get are rejects.
What might be the problem?
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P2Pool crashes the Bitcoin client
I wanted to try out P2Pool mining, so I installed the newest Bitcoin (0.5.2, also tried it with 0.5.1).
Unfortunately when I start run_p2pool.exe it immediately crashes my Bitcoin!
My OS: Win7 x64
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