Is there a p2pool config file yet where we can put in all the command line options/wallet etc?

Nevermind I see its there.

It looks like it doesn't use/support the wallet address yet.

Can someone smart check my basic explanation on Reddit comment of you get a chance. I think it's accurate, but I don't want to mislead anyone.

s/of/if

Anyone compiled for arm? I have a few compile errors that I intend to fix and PR, but wondering if I'm alone in the pursuit of that

I don't recall anyone mentioning actually doing it, but I'm pretty sure sech1 said it should be possible.

thanks

Aiming to run it on an AWS t4g since they are cheap

Interesting write up quickBASIC I’m also confused about the specifics on how this works so I’m interested to hear any corrections other people have

Right. He asked for a simple explanation and that's about the depth of my understanding sooo I took a whack at it.

What I don’t understand is the entire side chain of the pool. Does it have a difficulty? Does it have different block solutions from main chain? How Gf

Is this six hour window calculated? Etc?

I wish there was a graphic or a video that spelled it out. I know Bitcoin has p2pool before us. I wonder if someone did a graphic or a video for them

I imagine you might could just read the code for some of those answers, but it's a bit over my head to be honest.

Not a dev 😆

Well this p2pool was written from scratch so imagine some of it might not apply. Monero p2pool has uncle blocks for instance.

Deem sad xmrvsbeast shutting down

But atleast they helping us with hashrate if I understood it right

Hi, just tried to build the latest version and got the following error:

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:12 (add_subdirectory):

The source directory

/home/mydir/p2pool/external/src/RandomX

does not contain a CMakeLists.txt file.

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

git submodule sync && git submodule update --init --force --recursive

Why am I not surprised? virustotal.com/gui/file/84865755e1b…0f6e1e789e3d973ef35a0c907/detection

Perfect thank you

> BLOCK FOUND: main chain block at height 2443394 was mined by this p2pool

nice

orphaned

sad

yep, indeed

the block that orphaned it was mined a whole minute later. Is someone playing dirty?

no, I was wrong

so someone mined block 0.14 seconds later

it was skypool

and the next block was from minexmr, so they choose their block

we need better connectivity to major pools :D

time to bump connections :D

This is what I use: "--add-priority-node=node.supportxmr.com:18080" in monerod command line

but it was minexmr that borked everything... And I don't know their nodes

yep, I have a few other nodes across regions pinned

let's see if I can add a few more

eventually it will be less of a problem when more miners join

p2pool broadcasts mined blocks to all other p2pool nodes, and they all submit it to their monerod

one of them will for sure be 1 hop away from a major pool node

hmm minexmr.com/node

only 443 though

so no p2p ports afaik

pools keep their nodes in secret because these nodes are a target for DoS

indeed

can always have a second one for other syncing, which just pushes blocks towards their main one

oh well, once it grows enough it should be better than normal pools

given it will run many nodes

big pools can just connect p2pool node to one of their nodes to get blocks from p2pool quickly

hmm, does p2pool work with connections from xmrig-proxy at the moment?

it should work

no need to do --simple I guess then

almost all p2pool blocks were mined using proxy of some sort, judging by their nonce values

most likely xmrig-proxy

p2pool builds fine for ARM linux, I'm currently running it on rockpro64

it builds ok on M1 Mac too but doesn't run well there due to OS/platform bugs

gcc/linux ARM support has been mature for years, asking "does it work on ARM" about any software at this point is just a dumb question

is the sidechain serialized to disk in any form? haven't checked code deeply, there was something about found_blocks though

no, it's stored in p2pool.cache

aha, then that's fine

every restart it still fetches all new blocks from that it seems?

but it's just a cache, not all blocks are stored there

it fetches only blocks that are not in cache

mostly new blocks that were mined since it shut down

hmm, 10 seconds and it fetched a few thousand blocks

(10 second between stop and restart)

oh well, it's quick enough

just causes connected miners to cycle through several jobs rapidly

it fetcehs them from cache

Hmm been mining for about a day now with no payout. Trying to see if there is some issue or not. I only saw one occurrence of "share found" in p2pool, do I need to be seeing that often for it to count? Maybe just unlucky? xmrig is getting jobs and shares are being accepted by p2pool.

karce[m]: if running low hashrate, it'll take a while to have a share found + have a block mined within PPLNS threshold

over time it averages out at same payout

Hashrate is 6-7 KHz

what your found statistics show in xmrig?

# | DIFFICULTY | EFFORT % |

1 | 468M | 81.32 |

# | DIFFICULTY | EFFORT % |

1 | 467M | 67.47 |

5kh vs 9kh

# | DIFFICULTY | EFFORT % |

1 | 118M | 235.57 |

2 | 96622K | 287.72 |

3 | 71299K | 389.91 |

no wait, other way around

right so you haven't hit the mark just yet

What diff is the mark? 468M?

it's just random in the end

336M or over is what you need

atm

Ah ok. I'll keep mining then and see how it goes. Thanks guys.

few shares found here, let's see about when we find a block and doesn't get orphaned

Ah hold on one more question. Is there specific difficulty I should set xmrig to use? Or if I just remove it will p2pool still handle "good enough" shares?

set it to 30x your hashrate, so your miner will submit shares every ~30 seconds. If you don't set custom difficulty, it will still be fine

Ok thanks sech1, appreciate it.

this Mac really sucks. Have I said that before?

15303/791 shares. 791 rejects. my other boxes have zero rejects.

Oh wow that is a lot of rejects. How does that happen? Latency too slow?

I can't imagine it is slower than my old phone

but it def appears to have bugs in its network stack

among other bugs

also it's literally sitting right next to my wifi router

they're physically touching

Have you ever tried w/ a thunderbolt dock and ethernet? If you have one that is.

haven't got a dock

regardless, this machine is a PoS if it doesn't work reliably out of the box

which it doesn't

Oh, really? I thought you might have been using one of the newer M1 macs.

it is

Oh haha

13" M1 macbook pro, ordered in April

Oh wow that is an expensive PoS, huh?

sure is

not a complete waste of money, I bought it to port/test LMDB. but its bugs broke my LMDB tests too

it is certainly a finely crafted metal case, and a brilliant screen. but the guts are garbage.

That's pretty weird to me. You think it is just buggy because it is Apple's first version of this new architecture or something else?

typical apple dreck, form over function. no idea where the cause lies.

it's not like ARM64 is an exotic architecture these days

it's not like compilers are immature

so the bugs have to be either in the hardware itself or in MacOS

Yeah my experience is on raspberrypi and I didn't have any issues at all with it.

Yeah I figure it might be in MacOS.

but I doubt that MacOS on x86 has these problems ...

dunno tho

I don't have a Mac of any kind so I dunno either.

I'm using my gaming pc. Mining with p2pool on cpu and moneroocean with gpu.

Seems to work well enough. My power bill though...

lol. gaming PCs aren't built to be frugal

Winter can't come soon enough so I can start heating the house up with this thing.

Yeah they aren't. It works out well though. If I want to play games then I can just pause mining and do that. Then when I'm done I go back to mining. It might not be super profitable but it can offset the cost of the hardware quite a bit.

new block 8b827160902e1f9eaf821eebed2ccfecc842c05bd58d5f65d81b5bf8f87499a8 xmrchain.net/block/2443454

yay

and confirmed output got received, so all the tracking works yay

Okay, so can someone tell me why setting diff low on miners makes stratum stats more accurate... I'm new to this mining stuff, so I can't wrap my head around it... Is xmrig just saying "here yah go" more often to p2pool and it's like OK, whereas with a higher diff in xmrig, it's not talking to p2pool as much?

Low diff means more shares meet that diff. Law of large numbers, gets closer to average faster.

Yeah, but p2pool wants high diff stuff right, so why does telling xmrig to send lower diff shares to p2pool make the average more accurate?

Or am I totally off base?

Oh oh oh... I think I get it.

lower diff = more data points to calculate avg from

Wow haha someone is taking 90% of the p2pool reward. Damn

My entire experience with mining is all hobbyist. I have always wondered what the large hashrate setups look like

seems like xmrvsbeast

Oh it’s just a pool.

they are redirecting most hashrate there afaik

a pool that mines on a decentralized pool

Interesting attack. Drive diff up so nobody bothers with p2pool...

(basically they are closing in favor of people moving to p2pool, but meanwhile they just pointed hashrate to p2pool)

> We Are Moving to Decentralized Mining With P2pool

Well I know there are actual XMR mining farms out there and I’m super curious what they look like. Sech1 or Hyc do you have any experience in what they look like? Rooms filled with AMD CPUs on open mobo trays?

Interesting attack mooo

and yeah they are getting most of the PPLNS share counts, but it also ends up with more regular blocks found

it's not an attack

^

an attack would be if this hashrate orphaned everyone else's shares

Are they a middleman between p2pool users and the p2pool chain ?

no, they're just mining like everyone else

they are while they are closing, until it's in release state

according to the communications

Oh, it's their own hash, not their miners ?

In that case, nevermind.

Yes, it's their personal hash. p2pool needs significant hashrate for the release to avoid 51% attacks

in practice every pool out there could just point towards p2pool right?

because if it's at 100 kh/s, someone with 110 kh/s can come and start orphaning blocks, effectively making those 100 kh/s mine to attacker's wallet

any pool could in theory point to p2pool node instead of monerod

but nodejs pool implementations don't support it (yet)

every block is a pool payout block :)

effort% becomes everyone's effort%

would be funny, end result is your expected time for solo mining / 2016

DataHoarder: which for average miner with only average laptop would still be too much.. Is there any way to create multiple p2pool chains? Like 10 of them? And you will mine for one for let's say 24h and then it will change, if I get this correctly the difficulty should be lower..

or more PPLNS spots

yeah

multiple p2pool chains, well, each one creates custom template with outputs afaik

but that would possibly flood the blockchain when, let's say 20k users would need to get paid for each block

probably nesting that won't go well due to all paying out instantly

well, those outputs are kind of "cheap"

how much in bytes is one?

when you spend them it creates more sure

DataHoarder: ^this

what was it, 68 bytes?

cannot remember exactly

38

but you're just shuffling deck chairs

when they get spent you pay the fee and bytes indeed

no matter how you slice things up, you only have <your hashrate> / <total hashrate> chance of getting a payout

which go back to miners :') so larger outputs kind of win

expected income of <your hashrate> / <total hashrate> * <avg block reward>

that doesn't change, whether you're mining on a smaller pool or a larger one

I think of that as a possibility to embed the miner in the monero wallet, and mine when idle on let's say laptops, it give much higher chance than solo mining

I think of that as of a way to get my fees back ;p

yep, though custodial pools tend to coalesce "dust" over time then provide that over a single tx output on-chain

so you end up with let's say, single output with 1 monero in, vs same 1 monero but across 200 outputs

but there is no trust required

while on custodial pool there is

wait so whats the point of p2pool if 51% attack is possible

had me confused a bit

i think its a 51% attack on the p2p share chain

is whats being discussed. regardless of the mechanism, 51% are possible on a PoW network. thats just dependent on one entity controlling a lot of hashrate

the only way to prevent a 51% attack is to MINE! MINE WITH ALL YOU'VE GOT!

lol

true

sitting here wondering whether it's worth the effort to write support for mining on 2GB devices, or just forget about them and move on

wait didnt notice it before but anyone else'

anyone else's xmrig only spamming 'new job'

not a single 'accepted'

<hyc> "sitting here wondering whether..." <- Think of all the smart fridges out there

difficulty is high mightysnowman

you can lower it if you want to see some accepted

ooh okay but not necessary?

otherwise it's set for the minimum to be added to current side chain

not necessary

just for stats

I set it to my old difficulty x 30 as someone here suggested

<gingeropolous> "the only way to prevent a 51..." <- aight, let me compile xmrig for a smart fridge

as it will just have "share found" for the actual side chain difficulty

... as long as nobody blames me for their ice cream melting ...

You know they put those horrible kuerig coffee makers into fridges now... It will just help keep the water warm

what do different log levels show? where can I see that

what log level to see only "share found"?

mightysnowman: ./p2pool | grep 'share found'

wait what

so it will work live?

mightysnowman: 0

yeah

but it's case sensitive so make sure to set it correcly

s/correcly/correctly/

you can probably find all levels attached to their LOG calls

deem discovered one thing. most of the crypto guides or whatever when talking about miners they refer to them as 'him'. makes me wonder if any women are into crypto mining

there are

just biased language or writers

% might also be biased, but that I have no data on

not really relevant is it?

indeed

studies show that in open source communities, when contributors are known to be female, they get more hassle

^

they're better off not being recognized as female

I just imagine every contributor is a naked cat, but no one else knows about it

naked cat

😸

Do cats usually wear clothes :D

the fur-less ones :)

those furless ones are damn ugly

exactly!

dat feel of petting loose skin

well, tbf, they have a layer of fuzz

gotta take care of the oils though

what, why it sent message as pastebin but ok

probably cause it was copy pasted all at once

instead of sending multiple lines

who designed irc

why

line based :)

like most classic protocols

University of Oulu IIRC.

but yeah clients do whatever

My client just spams a ton of lines if I paste multi-line stuff.

Like this.

So must be your client.

^

specific to each client indeed

some web-based "for the masses" clients do that to prevent new people spamming unknowingly

very thoughtful

the worst one I saw was someone copy pasted an image... and client they used pooped it out as base64-encoded

lol

some 8 MiB png

could still be reconstructed though :)

monerujo update is out old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/pj…jo_v210_vertant_upgrading_to_monero

so, your p2pool payouts will be visible there

I can't stop laughing about the mental image of IRC scrolling crazily while it's spitting out the b64 of an image.

I think the freenode server would've just dropped your conn

I assume it was a freenode-side config

test line1

test line2

test line3

ooh I just had to change my client settings

I sometimes need to ask people for email headers at work to check spam filter settings, and sometimes they'll copy paste the full text of the email envelope including base64 encoded embedded images. My ticketing system doesn't like that and won't load the page because the text of the email is too long.

hyc: private server, user got applied some throttle but kept sending it out at slower speeds

yay more shares found for me, ... effort 395%

was wondering if I had done anything wrong

Hmm... I must have more hr than I thought. Now that I fixed diff my 1 hour est is like 3.1 kH/s (a bunch of disparate devices so I've never tabulated it before.) Or I could have just been lucky last hour.

the estimates are still pretty far off on my side, even with fixed diff

no big deal

Yeah. My laptop+eGPU is like 1000 and my son's gaming rig is like 1400 according to xmrig and a couple of other devices so it could be close.

weird question, why can't I interact with p2pool (i.e. status command etc) via ssh unless I use -t on windows, but if I ssh from a Linux box I don't need -t ? (For context windows built in ssh is OpenSSH).

I can type commands in monerod interactively via ssh on Windows too (w/o -t) weirdly.

Doesn't really matter, it's just weird.

probably cause due to env variables it knows it's a tty QuickBASIC

while on windows it doesn't and you need to tell it

Ah that makes a lot of sense. Thanks DataHoarder.

$TERM probably

and other ways too

which means you can just put that in your environment and not need to do so, if you know what kind of terminal you have

small feature suggestion, have --host support hostnames instead of just ips. right now if it's a hostname it'll fail with an RPC error

"fixed" it for now on container setup via --host "$(getent hosts monero | awk '{print $1}')"

2021-09-06 16:56:56.8483 SideChain add_external_block: block a79648fdfebbf0214eaf092e6ab6ba324d24ffd1f1a3293f303bf21bfdfe2030 has enough PoW for Monero network, submitting it

2021-09-06 16:56:56.8485 P2Pool submit_block: height = 2443566, external blob (6297 bytes)

2021-09-06 16:57:03.2219 P2Pool BLOCK FOUND: main chain block at height 2443566 was mined by this p2pool

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| # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # |

| # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # |

| ###### # # # # ### ##### # # # # # # # # # |

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2021-09-06 16:57:03.3969 P2Pool submit_block: BLOCK ACCEPTED at height 2443566 and difficulty = 332695066894

what does this mean?

aaah I missed the new block!

it means new block was found by p2pool mightysnowman

yeah okay makes sense

and please use a paste site next time :)

for a second I was hoping I got reward or something

> use a pastebin for multi-line messages, paste.debian.net

No incoming connections - check firewalls/routers allow port 18080

also I keep getting this?

but p2pool seems to be working

monerod right?

that means it's only using outgoing connections

should I be concerned or its fine

monerod yeah

it tends to sync better and faster with both outgoing and incoming

you know, for getting new blocks faster

hm okay but my internet is behind isp's nat

so there cant be incoming connections?

oh, one of those ISPs, ugh

CGNAT?

no im in eu

wait

?

idk

all I know is that I cant host services, have tried it

it should still work, keep an eye on it not getting new blocks for a while

add well known nodes, as mentioned before

how to add them?

can add --add-priority-node node.supportxmr.com:18080

so it stays connected to them

to monerod commmand

there are more out there if wanted

how can i add more

more get added from peer lists and discovery, otherwise you can keep adding more --add-priority-node

Do any of the block explorers show the extra coinbases yet, or not until new monerod version with changes? xmrchain.net/block/2443566

click on transaction hash QuickBASIC

Oh wow. Thanks yeah I see it now.

Wow last block someone got 97.18%

of the reward. Jeez.

Someone is mining with 20+ Mh/s?

some pool owner directed their rigs to p2pool

QuickBASIC: xmrvsbeast, they are forwarding hashrate from their pool till they close in favor of p2pool

Yeah, but p2pool hr has been pretty steady for last 4 days around 30 MH/s, did the start a few days ago?

yes

AH

Sorry, I'm a bit slow on the pickup.

Spending 7 hours partially syncing the blockchain seems a blocker to general adoption of p2pool over general pools

you get the plus of doing your own transaction selection :)

but yeah pools did the selection and running/syncing the node for you

afaik the expensive part here is making the template and why there is a custom node required right?

otherwise you could connect to remote ones

it's possible to point p2pool node to someone else's monerod

also, pruned node syncs faster

^ got a pruned node to sync yesterday

still, 38-39 GiB after the whole pruned sync

I do see the "point and forget" style pool mentality

and the "upside" of not having to run your own node is the drawback of them

but yeah, pointing elsewhere should be fine, once there is no need for a custom patch right?

public nodes are usually slow

it's fine for wallet sync, but it destroys mining performance

not specifically public but "someone else's" like a friend group

oh, new block

two blocks

2443601 too

ayup

first time getting paid for 3 blocks

that's a compensation from the luck gods for the orphan block earlier today

oh, I did not see any messages on logs for 2443601

my node did

otherwise it wouldn't be visible on p2pool.io

seems like it was received first as "new miner data"

then 2443602 was also mined

then SideChain updated for 2443602 h55022 and sidechain updated for 2443601 h55021

ordering issue?

2443601 was very close to 2443602, but it came ~1 second before on my node

vs paste.debian.net/1210678

for latest that got a notification

so you got notification from monerod before you got p2pool block, this is why your node didn't see it

yep

too well connected?

do I have to run set refresh-type full every time I open the wallet or just the first time?

only once

ty

it's saved in the wallet file

or just use wallet from v0.17.2.3 release

Oh, I thought it wasn't in that release or is it the zmq stuff?

Sorry what I mean is, what part of p2pool compatibility is pending the next official release?

zmq stuff

Ah okay. Cool. Thank you always sech1

monerujo already updated, it should be fine

Nice. I don't prefer the GUI of monerujo, but maybe it's better since I last used it. I've gotten used to cli wallet because I used to play Minko.to and needed to send mutliple outputs per transaction.

yep, synced my miner wallet on monerujo and it saw all payouts

Yeah I'm installing it. I pasted my Test Wallet seed in Google Keep so I can open the wallet lol. I dare google to steal my $0.38.

Is there any benefit to private p2pools over the default one?

more decentralization?

though that little payments you get from the default sidechain will take hella alot longer

QuickBASIC: monero-project/monero #7894 this got merged on v0.17.2.3

abberant[m]: a group of friends can just make their own little one if they want, without connecting to main one

they *can*

it doesn't share info with the public one, if that is a benefit

other PR pending seems to be monero-project/monero #7891

Could it be implemented that status for StratumServer saves the current effort when p2pool is restarted?

p2pool.log is huge... can someone share me an example of their logrotate config for p2pool? I'm trying to read the man page and... yeah.

what was the default loglevel for p2pool?

4

thx

I think I got it. Using paste.debian.net/1210689. service is running as monero user so it ends up there. Does this look okay?

<DataHoarder> "abberant: a group of friends can..." <- figured it wasn't very practical besides privacy for addresses, due to the infrequency of payouts. thanks for confirming.

Depends on who your friends are. ;-P

true lol

well I'm sure I'll run into the problem later, I'm thinking of getting all my normie friends to mine on this. is there any way for them to use my node instead of running their own and me being able to tell who to pay what if there isn't an easier way? I'm assuming the only way would be to run a node for each of their addresses individually.

you can start several p2pool instances abberant[m]

then share a node for all them

Thanks that makes sense, but arnt p2pool instances not nodes themselves if I want to be picky about terminology?

No he's saying run several instances of p2pool, but they all use the same Monero node.

I should be asking these after I try to get it running so sorry about that

well yes, they can run it themselves and connect to your monerod node if that's the heavy part

you can either have them run everything

ok, the p2pool things are light, thats the answer I was looking for

you run monerod and they run p2pool

or you run all, but as of this moment, you run multiple p2pool instances, one per payout addr

sweet

thanks for the help

my logrotate config is simple:

/home/software/p2pool/build/p2pool.log

{

rotate 7

daily

missingok

}

put that in a file /etc/logrotate.d/p2pool and forget about it

Thanks hyc.

DataHoarder: QuickBASIC

I'm reading the github page for setting this up, and it looks like all the configuration including the payout address is done in the p2pool instance and I would need a way to route my friends to their own instances on my machine somehow. My first thought is to just change the port on each of them, got input?

just different ports yes

you could do some custom spawning new instances based on payout address, but meh

👍️

KISS :)

DataHoarder: yeah, I'm not smart enough for that yet so ports it is :/

otherwise that sounds like the best idea

hmm, I need to look a bit more into p2pool code

probably not today

I mine on my node with the spare cpu power with nice values, im about to just make like 12 screen sessions for each of those ports, this might be a pain if this thing crashes :/

I'm trying to avoid looking into systemd services

while [[ 1 ]]; do ./p2pool ... && sleep 5; done

lazy restart :)

probably look at services and similar

I mean if the whole machine goes down

startup script?

I'm going to clean up the docker-compose setup a bit more and post it out so others can use it soon

I have been putting off docker for so long

docker / podman etc.

playing with tor a bit at the moment, seeing if I can make it cooperate well enough with p2pool

is it worth to learn and containerize all my stuff? I've been doing all this as a hobby for years now but I'll be able to be employed for this stuff soon

all? probably not

I'm probably most interested in docker for tor

makes sense to have them when they are tightly integrated

DataHoarder: well not all, but where it makes sense I mean

I still don't understand containerization completely, seems like the main benefits are in deployment and security

both are not much of a concern as a hobbyist with home servers

aye, and gets you, if properly setup, a system you can transfer across multiple places or clone easily

as the bringup/compile/configuration/placement/network interconnects are all defined there

are they used like qubes as well?

like, let's say you want to do this again on another machine or update

once you set it up once it's easier

running 12 p2pool instances on the same machine is a bad idea

^ unless you got memory

randomx allocation right?

it did require the hugepages, had to map them into docker

only got 16 gigs, that might be the dream killer

there is the light mode command line parameter, but haven't checked if that works well enough

there's also a restriction of 1 connection from the same IP

other p2pool nodes will not allow 12 connections from the same IP

sech1: so only one miner can be connected to one node at a time without proxy?

aha

your friends should really run their p2pool instances, they can point them to your monerod

hmm, you could have a single node you control that has the limit removed

then you join more to it locally :')

but yes of the three options 2nd was you run monerod node, they run p2pool and point towards you

do note it doesn't do domains on --host

(yet!)

sech1: I assume its pretty easy to run an instance with their miners? since they do it half the time on gaming machines

change monerod command line to "--rpc-bind-ip 0.0.0.0 --confirm-external-bind --zmq-pub tcp://0.0.0.0:18083" and open port 18083 also to make it possible

you just need to give them command line to run p2pool

18081+18083

I make batch scripts to open all their stuff, so that doesnt sound too bad

I guess I'll try and go that route

and also add "--restricted-rpc" to monerod command line, unless you open ports only to your friends's IPs

whats zmq? just like a more advanced rpc for interacting with nodes? I assume p2pool uses some fancy stuff that would need that

sech1: yeah, I also password protect it

password protect monero rpc?

Just keep in mind, they'll need to run xmrig as admin on Windows for performance reasons, but you don't probably want them to run p2pool as admin, so a single batch might not be great.

sech1: my node...?

QuickBASIC: why not p2pool as admin out of curiosity, otherwise good to know

run it with the least amount of privileges necessary

also I just want to mention that I appreciate the charity from you guys, I love learning about this stuff

DataHoarder: I suppose this is always good advice, especially for a beta project

hmm my last 7 pool shares all have had 100.00% effort, the three before that were 8.465%, 64.387%, 284.344%

like, exactly 100.00%

abberant[m] it's untested software. What if a bug deletes your %appdata% or something.

Same reason sech1 said run as alt user on Linux.

DataHoarder: rare

very basic and quick Dockerfile for p2pool btw paste.debian.net/1210709

can specify ref for commit to build from p2pool repo, then you run it with your parameters

you might need to pass as a volume something for /p2pool/data and hugepages mount

don't recommend it over just cloning and compiling the repo, it's more complex via docker atm

I threw this on a cluster, in a VM, inside docker, on a different VLAN for itself

no need to trust it :)

just works(tm)

but yes still wondering about all those 100.00% shares

oh, new share, 100.00% too (though the time between them definitely varies, so that % is not correct, given it's already a guess)

if you're not using custom diff for miners, it will always be 100%

aha!

your miners need to submit lower diff shares for more fine-grained counting of %

was using it before, then switched to counting that on xmrig-proxy side

well this is on a roll, shouldn't be getting as many shares as this but in the last hour I have gotten more shares than in the last day

and yep, difficulty is proper

lucky

do they show up in "status" command?

cannot get to there with current setup, but they got added to side chain and others are building on top of it

I'm now just waiting for a block that will never come

too much luck, it'll probably even out by going by 2160 sidechain blocks without finding anything

hmm, there is no way to query p2pool except by cli correct, no api implemented for it

I've just been running p2pool in screen so I can ssh in and run status.

Finally I managed to move my hashrate to p2ppool. Yay :) That's rly cool what you have done there sech1! Somehow a dream coming true... Thank you very much for the work and effort you put into this project!!!

^ it's good stuff :)

It is :)

oh, nice! this is a fix for the ordering issue that did not report the block SChernykh/p2pool 899d5a8