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ModeratorLegendaryActivity: 3192Merit: 4308 Re: [110GH/s] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool January 25, 2012, 10:34:37 PM

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P2Pool has come a long way since its humble beginnings: It's now a completely realistic solution for a great many miners. The software is still rapidly developing but it is reliable, featureful, and, of course, P2Pool is critical for the health and welfare of the Bitcoin system: Our trust in the Bitcoin system depends on it being highly decentralized. P2Pool prevents the centralization that non-distributed pools create. This is important enough to people that P2Pool miners are



This "pool" (really a decentralized/distributed network just like Bitcoin) is still attractive even for people who aren't thinking about the health of Bitcoin overall. P2pool's decentralization is accomplished without compromising on miner profits and, unlike solo mining, while still allowing stable income. The things which p2pool can't do, like provide the utmost low variance (PPS) are offset by the lack of fees and by removing the risk of cheating by pool operators (which is almost undetectable if only done in moderation).



P2Pool isn't ideal for low speed (e.g. CPU) miners, and may never be but it's absolutely a no brainier for anyone who would even consider solo-mining and a good majority of the people in between.



I'm personally really happy about the new built in per-worker graphs:





I hope to see more useful monitoring features in the future.

In the time since P2Pool's original announcement it has evolved considerably. I thought having to wade through hundreds of pages of inapplicable cruft about old versions of the software to get to useful information was a disservice to people here, so I split off the old discussion to a separate archival thread P2Pool has come a long way since its humble beginnings: It's now a completely realistic solution for a great many miners. The software is still rapidly developing but it is reliable, featureful, and, of course, P2Pool is critical for the health and welfare of the Bitcoin system: Our trust in the Bitcoin system depends on it being highly decentralized. P2Pool prevents the centralization that non-distributed pools create. This is important enough to people that P2Pool miners are currently being paid by Bitcoin users to participate . P2Pool pools payments but mining decisions are still left to all the miners just as bitcoin was intended to work.This "pool" (really a decentralized/distributed network just like Bitcoin) is still attractive even for people who aren't thinking about the health of Bitcoin overall. P2pool's decentralization is accomplished without compromising on miner profits and, unlike solo mining, while still allowing stable income. The things which p2pool can't do, like provide the utmost low variance (PPS) are offset by the lack of fees and by removing the risk of cheating by pool operators (which is almost undetectable if only done in moderation).P2Pool isn't ideal for low speed (e.g. CPU) miners, and may never be but it's absolutely a no brainier for anyone who would even consider solo-mining and a good majority of the people in between.I'm personally really happy about the new built in per-worker graphs:I hope to see more useful monitoring features in the future.

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DonatorLegendaryActivity: 1596Merit: 1185Creator of Litecoin. Cryptocurrency enthusiast. Re: [110GH/s] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool January 25, 2012, 10:49:18 PM #3 Everyone should start using p2pool. It's the most innovative things since bitcoin itself. It bothers me that Gavin has try to convince Tycho (of deepbit) of his multi-sig proposal before he can implement it, because if deepbit decides to not use the new code, it's dead in the water. And that's so wrong. So people, wake up and use p2pool.



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Code: > Failure: twisted.internet.defer.TimeoutError: Getting http://127.0.0.1:8332/ took longer than 5 seconds.



Fairly frequent. P2pool and bitcoind are running on the same system. What is the likely cause of this?Fairly frequent. P2pool and bitcoind are running on the same system. Losing hundreds of Bitcoins with the best scammers in the business - BFL, Avalon, KNC, HashFast.

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NewbieActivity: 39Merit: 0 Re: [110GH/s] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool January 25, 2012, 11:57:34 PM #5 I see the same error when running p2pool and bitcoind on the same (fairly underpowered) system, an asus eeebox with intel atom cpu.

There are load spikes every now and then where bitcoind and p2pool together peg the cpu at 100% and then these errors appear.



It seemed to cause more than average orphans and dead shares in my case so I now run p2pool and bitcoind on a faster system, and I've never seen the error there.



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Which is better to be using?



Nightly snapshots from here:

https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool/zipball/master



Or the latest executables scattered about?



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Also, what are the dependencies for the graphs?



I have all these:

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2640/p2pool-crashes-the-bitcoin-client/2643#2643

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Download and install latest Python 2.7 (if you get 64bit, you'll need 64bit versions of the packages below) -



Download and install python extension package twisted -



Download and install python extension package zope.interface -



Download and install python extension package pil -



Download and install python extension package pygame - Download latest current p2pool code and extract to "%programfiles%\p2pool" - https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool/zipball/master Download and install latest Python 2.7 (if you get 64bit, you'll need 64bit versions of the packages below) - http://www.python.org/download/ Download and install python extension package twisted - http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#twisted Download and install python extension package zope.interface - http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#zope.interface Download and install python extension package pil - http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pil Download and install python extension package pygame - http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame

but the graphs do not work, from what I have read it seems the problem is not having rrdtool, however I'm having trouble finding a current win32 version of rrdtool, it is also not in activestate.



Thanks I don't quite understand something that I was asking about in the thread that was just closed.Which is better to be using?Nightly snapshots from here:Or the latest executables scattered about?----------Also, what are the dependencies for the graphs?I have all these:but the graphs do not work, from what I have read it seems the problem is not having rrdtool, however I'm having trouble finding a current win32 version of rrdtool, it is also not in activestate.Thanks

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Hero MemberActivity: 1120Merit: 500 Re: [120GH/s] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool January 26, 2012, 05:13:24 AM #11 "What exactly is the problem again?"



The problem is, that - according to the logs - I (we) work on the same block since days. A look at my wallet also confirms that:

http://blockexplorer.com/address/17fLZeWn31xf9wruWa7EpjoCEJtEyvmANQ



I haven't received any BTC since a few days now.



That's why I said: "I think p2pool is not for me. To risky. Or buggy. Or both ..." In reply to "Holliday"s post ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=61131.msg712520#msg712520 ):The problem is, that - according to the logs - I (we) work on the same block since days. A look at my wallet also confirms that:I haven't received any BTC since a few days now.That's why I said: "I think p2pool is not for me. To risky. Or buggy. Or both ..."

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DonatorHero MemberActivity: 798Merit: 500 Re: [120GH/s] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool January 26, 2012, 05:52:37 AM #12 Re: Frizz23 if p2pool was running the subsidy payments should have came in. How are you launching p2pool? Are you using -a <address> with the same address every restart? Losing hundreds of Bitcoins with the best scammers in the business - BFL, Avalon, KNC, HashFast.

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http://127.0.0.1:9332/graphs/

Quote Install python-rrdtool!

didnt find an easy way to install rrdtool on windows



looking for a way to check my hash rate remotely



does the higher acceptance rate of the git version affects client in any way? if a lower difficulty solution is found does it still look for another one (because the lower difficulty solutions dont really count as shares)? installed from GIT:didnt find an easy way to install rrdtool on windowslooking for a way to check my hash rate remotelydoes the higher acceptance rate of the git version affects client in any way? if a lower difficulty solution is found does it still look for another one (because the lower difficulty solutions dont really count as shares)?