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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How can P2Pool charge a fee?
P2Pool is an open source peer to peer mining pool. It currently charges a fee of 0.5%.
Is it possible to just fork P2Pool protocol and eliminate the fee? Has this been done? If so, how can P2Pool still retain users when a cheaper alternative…
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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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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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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 higher payoff in P2Pool due to bonus donations, and the…
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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 Google's turned up no hits. It seems as though it's…
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How do I find the hash "market share" of P2Pool?
P2Pool is a peer to peer mining pool, offering some advantages over centralized pools:
There is no central node to take down (assuming the pool is indeed fully decentralized). Pools have suffered from DDOS attacks in the past.
An open source P2P…
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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: ~3.8% (2-8%) Expected time to share: 29.8…
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Why is my p2pool share not payed out?
I'm mining Litecoins in the q30.qhor.net P2Pool node at a current rate of around 75 kH/s.
I've been reading that decentralized p2pool mining differs a bit from centralized mining pools, e.g. that you only get paid out when a block is solved…
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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 -> start mining
It took me about 10~20 minutes.
Can I substitute…
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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 hashing is not actually being done on the chip itself?…
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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 overhead and learning (which I chalk up to being a…
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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 that it is consistently underperforming as of 3 weeks…
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Why is everyone encouraging the use of P2Pool as the answer to the 51% problem?
As I understand, P2Pool has some problems, since it's just a separate blockchain with a shorter time between blocks, small miners still have more variance, and, hypothetically, if the time between blocks were 10 seconds and each new block took 0.5…
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Is P2Pool vulnerable to pool hopping?
Some pools / payout mechanisms are vulnerable to pool hopping.
Is P2Pool vulnerable?
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How to change donation address of p2pool
I am working on the fork of p2pool to a new coin, and it seems that the donation script in the original could only accept BTC, etc.
How to change this script to a new address? It looks like something below:
DONATION_SCRIPT =…
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