Ok yup denominations. So really sech1 your p2pool mining took advantage of an old feature of the codebase and used

It in a new creative way?

Hey one question: is p2pool more or less efficient than the traditional pool mining on low hashrate (lower than 1kh)? Will it manage to find same amount of shares? Or will it find them less frequently but they will be worth more?

It will find fewer shares, but each share will result in a payout. In the long run it will be a bit higher profitability because of 0 fees and more efficient block propagation (fewer Monero orphan blocks).

also Monero blocks in p2pool sometimes will have more transaction fees included because p2pool uses better picking algorithm

Third block found: xmrchain.net/block/2438316

cool, so lower hashrate will work just fine? And also one more thing - can many miners connect to p2pool instance with different usernames/passwords?

low hashrate works just fine

no, each miners needs to run p2pool instance. One p2pool instance = 1 wallet address

they all can still connect to the same Monero node if someone makes it available

BLOCK ACCEPTED at height 2438400

That's #4

nice

my single p2pool share I found this morning resulted in 2 ~0.0004 XMR payouts so far, nice

Double spend detected! :D

I'm wondering if there's an api to get the p2ppool stats like the blocks found and it's hashrate

actually no, 3rd block was found before I found my share, so I got only one 0.000420419537 XMR payout

no api yet

you can run "status" command in p2pool console

i assume that two of the coinbase outputs xmrchain.net/tx/c7de62c65a67c180f21…d77531bed72d0dc9090044eed74bdb6d2e4 were for single shares, why do they have different amounts

payout for share depends on share difficulty

ok thanks

will there ever be a "remote node" for p2pool so that users don't have to download the blockchain and setup the p2pool node and everything?

read my message from 1 hour earlier

ah, you didn't see it

<sech1> no, each miners needs to run p2pool instance. One p2pool instance = 1 wallet address

<sech1> they all can still connect to the same Monero node if someone makes it available

Does p2pool require full sync blockchain or does it work with pruned blockchain?

p2pool on my dev PC works with pruned blockchain

Ok thanks.

Does p2pool need to have access to the wallet file or is the wallet address enough like with solo mining?

just address

it only needs to know your payment address for your payouts, nothing more

so i still have 7 peers, is that right?

same here

and we have 28MH

1% of network

That's pretty damn good given it's just started. Congrats :)

and I have 2 shares in PPLNS window now, yay

i have zero :P

3 phones just aren't gonna cut it :D

so once you drop below a certain percentage of network hashrate, your odds of hitting are essentially zero

--addpeers does nothing for startup parameter, had to run addpeers manually inside p2pool cli, got no connections until I connected manually.

hyc less than 0.1% of p2pool hashrate and you'll be getting pool shares only once in a while, but it's not a problem. It's like solo mining, but with smaller difficulty

--addpeers works, what exactly did you try to put there?

--addpeers 65.21.227.114:37890

copypasted the whole example command from github

try to add --loglevel 5 to the command line and check what p2pool says when it starts

do i need to delete the p2pool_peers.txt or anything else so none of the peers are read from cache

yes, delete it

2021-08-30 14:36:03.4254 P2PServer connecting to 65.21.227.114:37890 | Connections = 0 (0 incoming)

P2PServer status

Connections = 0 (0 incoming)

still nothing

ooff.. god damn copy paste

lol

did you open an inbound port in your firewall?

yes

of course the outbound connections still should have worked

just let me copypaste more

once I got it sorted :D

2021-08-30 14:39:27.2431 P2PServer new connection to 65.21.227.114:37890

2021-08-30 14:39:27.2431 P2PServer sending HANDSHAKE_CHALLENGE

I'm surprised right now I have 0 incoming, all outgoing

2021-08-30 14:39:27.2431 P2PServer peer 65.21.227.114:37890 sent HANDSHAKE_CHALLENGE

2021-08-30 14:39:27.2432 P2PServer peer 65.21.227.114:37890 disconnected

2021-08-30 14:39:27.2434 P2PServer peer list saved (0 peers)

sounds like that peer doesn't like you

you might have failed too many times and got banned

WARNING 2021-08-30 14:39:23.4292 P2PServer peer 84.240.124.114:58430 has been idle for 6 seconds, disconnecting

naw, once i add it inside the console it connects instantly

this is what I see

see?

bam, and it connects

my node didn't get HADNSHAKE_CHALLENGE & HADNSHAKE_SOLUTION messages from your node

so it decided it was some random port scan and disconnected after 6 seconds

weird, why it works once I run addpeers ip:port

it just tries to connect again

it's running through all the blocks

let it sync up then

do you want full log output with the problem?

hmm, I already see what went wrong. Your log says that my node disconnected immediately, but it didn't disconnect on my side.

so it tries to connect once and gives up?

so something in between broke connection

it connects once, yes

Does Hugepages have any role causing this issue? I got them disabled atm.

sounds suspicious. an immediate break means an active RSt packet or somesuch. a timeout would take much longer

maybe his provider has DPI which triggered

or router acting up

ah hey you might be right

lemme test something

whatever, I need to do more than 1 attempt to connect to a peer when it's added

WARNING 2021-08-30 14:43:17.5560 P2PServer got a request for block with id 2dc98048a49024abae57172becce52d8510844d4256ffd31b1f80a230272afb0 but couldn't find it

?

hmm.. stopped ntopng, the connection worked once, restarted the p2pool and now it won't connect again.

so no, ntopng had nothing to do with it

gingeropolous try to grep your logs for this block id

and got no dpi enabled on router

monerod or p2pool

p2pool

sech1, paste.debian.net/hidden/fe0723a1

p2pool diff is already 2x yesterday's, 288M vs 140M

itshappening.gif

gingeropolous that's ok. Some node broadcasted a block that referenced this id, and everyone started asking for this id until they synced

ah, i also had this series of errors sech1 : paste.debian.net/hidden/827279f3 , but afaict everythings fine now

a status: OK line on status would be cool, but dunno how it could be self aware to that extent

lol what does not OK mean

i dunno. can't talk to other nodes, miners asking for pizza, ... just a summary of everythings fine, vs not ok meaning somethings weird, vs. borked meaning this needs some serious help. yah know, green, yellow, red

i guess i should eventually check this mining wallet

I've earned about 12 cents. gonna have to look up my electricity price

Improved status command: paste.debian.net/hidden/3883dd44

mining with custom fixed diff on my machines, so stratum server can estimate hashrate better now

if you're using fixed diff, would be useful for status to display current diff

it's fixed diff per miner

in config.json

yes, even so.

for example "user": "x+265000", in config.json for Ryzen 5600X

how can I display current diff if I have 5 different values from 5 different computers?

current p2pool diff?

it's side chain hashrate * 10

ok

Just reading the 'How to test' guide on github, will everything still work if I prune the blockchain?

yes

Thanks :)

Just a thought, won't the difficulty raise too much once then side chain hashrate increase above certain rate?

It should rise just right. What makes you think it might rise too much ?

define "too much"

Hmm, well there is not really upper limit, it just becomes super rare to actually send share that is above the diff :P

still a walk in the park compared to solo mining

true

D: that block found ascii

thank :D

*thanks :D

block #5 if I count right: xmrchain.net/block/2438575

gah, wheres the asci

wen release?

next release won't contain all changes necessary for p2pool

yet it works now?

custom build of monerod

so you need a special monerod until it gets mainlined?

yes