41 uncles in this current window

P2POOOOL! P2POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLL!!!!

how u get an orphan with uncles?

also, how resilient is the current p2pool against attackers? can't think of how it would go down, but perhaps dos etc

dos by bad hash submissions?

or just sending garbage to the rpc ports i suppose?

or if your monerod is lagging

3 more blocks were mined: 2438762, 2438818, 2438881

are you mining on mainnet now?

yes you are.

p2pool hashrate 39.697 MH/s, oh my

xnbya: wen p2pool hashrate on minexmr.com?

I guess it is currently part of the 507MH unknown hashrate

it's not easy to get this hashrate automatically yet

you have to type "status" in console

Hi all! Tried out p2pool this morning, following the instructions on github. Got everything to work, but difficulty is 401M, way too high for my miner. Is there any way to adjust the difficulty? Thanks!

xmrig -u x+10000 -o 127.0.0.1:3333

to set static difficulty 10000 for your miner

or "user":"x+10000", in pools section of config.json

Okay, xmrig is now showing lots of accepted shares w/ diff 10001. However status in p2pool says Your hashrate = 0 H/S and Your Shares = 0

because you need to find that pool share with difficulty 401M

check the hashrates that StratumServer status shows

So I am supposed to find one share once in a few weeks?

what's your hashrate?

more like one share once in a few days even for low-end PCs

about 2KH/s

Read "How PPLNS works in p2pool" in readme

so it'll take ~2.5 days on average for you. But once you find a share, it's almost guaranteed payout (sometimes even more than one) with current p2pool hashrate.

Thanks for clarification, sech1. I really appreciate your work and will keep mining.

Current p2pool hashrate is ~39.5 MH/s, it finds Monero blocks every ~2 hours 15 minutes on average and PPLNS window size is 6 hours

ooo I have 1 share in current window

Hey folks, would you mind writing a short blog post about p2pool? I think people should be aware of this great project and a blog post on getmonero would give it a lot of visibility. Something short that just announces the project and point people to the github repo and communication channels would be enough. If you give me the markdown with the blog post i can take care of the rest

or even jsut a draft with the core points, then i'll take care of making the post

prob any useful info you want to relay is in the p2pool README.md

yeah i could do it but maybe the people who work on the project would like to mention something specific. If that's not the case or nobody feels like writing a post i can do it from scratch later

I don't know, try to compile something from README.md and the reddit post: reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/p9apyd…ro_decentralized_mining_pool_p2pool

ok

hyc re "dos by bad hash submissions/just sending garbage" p2pool checks everything and bans bad peers, in theory. There's always a possibility I missed something.

For the record, relaying blocks before checking would bypass that (unless done very carefully maybe).

p2pool nodes don't relay unchecked blocks. Broadcast is only done after full verification

p2pool verification is much lighter than monerod's

it does call submit_block RPC after only checkin PoW when it sees p2pool block with enough PoW, but it only happens when someone finds Monero block

I finally got Ubuntu installed on an old laptop and compiled p2pool there and have been able to point all my other miners. Seems to be working.

Although I was having some weird "End of file" error on some of my miners until I stopped and started p2pool, but it was probably an issue on the miner side.

avg result time 19h

nice

ah, ErC is gone. sech1 , is p2pool ready for blog posts etc? or are we still in the "only ppl that can help debug should use" phase?

It's ok, as long as these people are able to compile their binaries.

people are de-facto using it already, 38-40 MH/s already would make p2pool #11 on miningpoolstats.stream/monero

true

even though its only 7 total peers afaict :/

nice, did my share go old already before p2pool found a block?

D:

p2pool is a bit unlucky right now

should've found 2-3 blocks since the morning, but nothing so far

Is it possible for me to install p2pool on my VPS and then mine to it via my home computer so that it doesn’t broadcast my home IP?

yes

Yes. And if you publish your VPS address, you might even get free hash.

myxmr.net:3000 tee-hee

does p2pool regonize subaddress/integrated addresses

no jaska087 , main addy only

right, so it won't run if subaddress/integrated address is used?

it will say "Invalid wallet address"

Ah ok, that dono address was main address then

PSA: current sidechain is borked, I found a bug tx keys generation :D

I'll update p2pool soon and we'll start a new sidechain

borked = not all payouts might be spendable

or maybe they are spendable, but it's still a bug there. I added a few more checks for tx public/secret keys and they fail at some blocks

the 3 outputs in my wallet were all spendable, that's good. Can everyone try to run sweep_all in their miner wallets?

got no balance so no go

Is this test useful for the testnet wallet ? I have not mined on mainnet yet.

yes, check testnet wallet too

OK, I'll try a bit later when I can that vm)

PSA: I've started a new sidechain, you'll need to build the latest code and connect to port 37889 instead (everything else is the same)

funny thing is that old p2pool will continue to run and I can't stop it until everyone switches :D

done switching

now we need to wait for those 40 MH/s to switch...

what? my 9kh is not enough!?

every hash counts

:P

1581 outputs, all could be spent.

setting custom diff for xmrig is just to calculate the pool hashrate more accurate, it does not get added to shares, right?

it's to calculate hashrate

in stratum server status

ah yes that is what i meant, good to know

moneromoooo interesting... Funny thing is that my generate_keys skipped sc_reduce32 sometimes on 1 in 15 attempts: SChernykh/p2pool 780afd8#diff-3700f1a6da19be70db791c8b323a328192eda62ce64f3f5b70c868e1bdbf63baR87

I totally forgot how "continue" works in a do..while loops.

So some tx secret keys that were generated were not correct

they are used to calculate stealth addresses, so I assume if you see a payout, you should be able to spend it

but with added checks in that commit, old sidechain failed to verify

PPLNS window = 411 blocks (+1 uncles, 1 orphans)

nnnooo...! think of the orphans!

that was a block at height 0. I guess someone joined with miners connected and started mining before fully synced

that was me, sorry

it's not a problem

more like a normal way of operation for p2pool

hyc ping. You need to update to the latest and switch to the new sidechain

ok

port number changed to 37889 to avoid lots of warnings from old nodes

your shares on old sidechain will stay there and will be reward if old nodes mine a Monero block

.mine 15000

so many banned nodes

Then it's better to stop p2pool, delete p2pool_peers.txt and start again

but it's not required, bans are temporary

aight

old sidechain is still alive, mined block xmrchain.net/block/2439270

I got a payout from that block

Sorry. Just checked. Need to rebuild and change port, right? My old one is still running on old chain for another hour or so not going to disrupt anything?

Just rebuild, change port and delete p2pool_peers.txt before starting again

old one will not disrupt because port number has changed

Roger will do. I'm out and don't have access to it at the moment.

hm i didn't delete peers file

It's not critical. Your node will ban incompatible peers

when they update and ban expires, they should reconnect again

I stopped it and will rebuild later today. I wasn't getting any shares with my 1900 h/s anyway.

One of my miners kept periodically saying "end of file" and "connection refused". Over the last 10 hour or so, but then would go right back to getting "new jobs" by itself.

To be clear I I built an install it on Ubuntu running on actual hardware now, so it's not running in a vm container anymore.

I opened up the ports with ufw on Ubuntu, but was still seeing periodically connection refused and then it would go back to normal.

Xmrig was running on a separate Windows machine and connecting to the p2p stratum on Ubuntu.

connection refused shouldn't happen if p2pool is running, it's happens when you try to connect and no one is listening on that port

i had it happen to me one time, turns out my p2pool banned 127.0.0.1 ... don't know why

16:56:56.7097 StratumServer peer 127.0.0.1:59955 is banned, disconnecting

it should have ban reason a few lines up in the log

or more than a few lines up. You can search the log for warnings from StratumServer

WARNING 2021-08-31 17:17:04.4182 StratumServer client: invalid JSON request (unknown method)

WARNING 2021-08-31 17:17:04.4182 StratumServer peer 127.0.0.1:57404 banned for 600 seconds

unknown method? What miner is it?

xmrig

6.14.1

do you have keepalive on in xmrig config?

yes

set it to false then

I need to fix it on p2pool side though

Hi all, I'm having trouble with setting up p2pool.

I have built the latest version of monero-gui (17.2.3). I have firewall rules for the ports I've specified but when I run the software I get: p2pool get_miner_data RPC response is invalid. On the node I get: invalid zqm/sub message. Can anyone lend me a hand?

ok, will do

The node must run custom monerod build

Ah, release is not OK? Where abouts is the repo for that build?

you need to follow the instructions for monerod binary

XD, I glossed over it. Thanks a lot

v0.17.2.3 does not contain all the changes for p2pool

Can the next one be named 'mainnet test 2 electric boogaloo'?

p3pool

Something interesting will be here p2pool.io/api

when it works, it should be enough to have an entry at miningpoolstats.stream/monero

Every time I build p2pool I have to manually go add the path to UV_LIBRARY and UV_LIBRARY_DEBUG to the CMakeCache.txt (because it's set to NOTFOUND). Am I possibly doing something wrong? It works when I add the path under /use/lib/x86_64_yaddayadda for the .so, but I prefer not to have to do it every time.

* autocorrect mangled the /usr/ path but you get the idea.

Sorry moo, not a dev so I'm not sure what you're pointing out here.

try to change it as in the posted patch

Ah understood. Away from that machine at the moment but will try as soon as I can.

Yeah, just tested the diff and cmake finds it now.

But that's changing four lines manually instead of two.

sech1: can you merge ^ ?

Ahh umm my git-fu is not up to par. I'm assuming there's a programmatic way to apply the diff, but I just copy and pasted using nano lol.

git apply patch

Thanks selsta.

merged

Yay!

Oh damn. I found 3 shares with my piddly 1.9 kH/s in the last 30 mins since I got back up and running.

Actually more like 1 hour.

But that's super lucky. I should have like 1-2 shares per 2.5 days or so.

I just noticed you added the stratum hashrate stats sech1. Too cool.

sech1, so i think im on the new sidechain now

10 different nodes, 10 wallets in PPLNS window. This second test is more interesting so far

QuickBASIC you'll get more shares now while difficulty is low

sech1 I noticed a commit that doesn't allow multiple connections from the same IP. Does that mean that someone sharing a single residential connection couldn't both use p2pool independently?