Vertcoin p2pool faq posted in the vertcoin community. P2pools initial setup requires a little more effort but provides equivalent payouts with a higher variance and no need for trust in a pool operator. Treasure quarry uses p2pool for distributing your mining earnings and for displaying interesting graphs and statistics of your mining endeavours as well as the pools overall activity. The p2pool instance will eventually increase the difficulty of the shares it asks of the miner if it is getting too many of them. Individual miner share difficulty calculation is broken on p2pool versions after version 3877fc7. Setting up a local p2pool and mining vertcoin with ccminer. Mining pools may contain hundreds or thousands of miners using specialized protocols. Setting up a local p2pool and mining vertcoin with ccminer 12 minute read. It include 2 special transactions the donation sent to the developers.
Target pool wide sharetime is 30 seconds and the length of the sharechain is 2 1440 4 4 days. This is due to the hardfork of p2pool to keep compliance with bip66. Click here for more detailed stats and graphs classic p2pool recent blocks. The p2pool software will adjust your miners share difficulty while it mines. High share difficulty in p2pool for slower miners dash forum. Followers 2 alliancedeveloper bounty update p2pool. This provides optimal difficulty for each miner regardless your hashrate and provides smooth mining stats and predictable payout even for small gpu miners together with. Individual miner share difficulty calculation is broken on. To get started with mining infinitecoins, just download a miner like poolers cpuminer, to mine with. A pool can support variable share difficulty feature, which means that a miner can select the share target. P2pool for dash uses the p2pooldash software on github, which is a fork of p2pool for bitcoin.
This is measured using the same method as difficulty for the vertcoin network, but should be much, much lower. Mining can be done on either computer processors cpus or graphics cards gpus, however at this time gpu mining is the most efficient and best publicly. Share difficulty becomes higher as the p2pool network hashrate increases, and share difficulty which is too high can result in high variance for. Increased new transactions size limit per share to allow producing larger blocks. It is also possible to change the share difficulty on a peruser basis, so that large. Knary with all of the information available on the net regarding crypt mining confusion rapidly ensues. These are all the transactions that pay the other p2pool users the generated coins and fees. Extremely high difficulty on p2pool feathercoin forum. P2pool for dash uses the p2pool dash software on github, which is a fork of p2pool for bitcoin. I have been mining on a local pool for about 1 week now and my share difficulty is over while some users on the pool have a share difficulty of 121. People can create nodes, which are pretty much subpools. The difficulty of the pool is adjusted every 10 shares and calculated over the entire sharechain. P2pool works by creating a new block chain, outside of the crypto currency being mined, in which the difficulty is adjusted so a new block is found every 30 seconds.
P2pool setup overview p2pool is a pool server designed for local use within a. In this instance, you will want to adjust the minimal pool difficulty, in your miner settings, to ensure that we never send your miner work below your minimal pool. Ive noticed that for some miners in p2pools the share difficultly is much higher than the minimum pool difficulty. P2pool nodes share a cryptographic chain of data representing value, similar to dashs blockchain.
The p2pool assings the share difficulty dynamically based on the hashrate seen from one user wallet address. A transaction that is not valid, but just has a value of zero and the hash of the share info. Baikal miner p2pool guide the p2pool difficulty is too low for baikal miner. P2pool is a decentralized bitcoin mining pool that works by creating a peertopeer network of miner nodes as opposed to usual pools, p2pool helps to secure bitcoin against doublespending and 51% attacks. P2pool needs to store all of the shares in the sharechain plus a few. Mining is the act of using computational processing power to verify transactions on the feathercoin network. So with each nonce you try, your software will check to see how good the difficulty of the resulting block is. This is to prove that when a share is found it was whilst looking for a real p2pool block. This being said its not that difficult to get it running and optimizing it for your graphics card. Contribute to amarian12p2pool adaptive development by creating an account on github.
Smaller miners may have a better experience using the second or third p2pool networks due to the high share difficulty of the first network, but more on that later. Address hashrate doa hashrate share difficulty time to share predicted payout. Treasure quarry infinitecoin mining pool using p2pool. Set max difficulty by adding 100 to the end of your username. For example currently in p2pool7903 most of the miners have a share difficulty of 7. So last night i tried changing my share difficulty in ocm, in hope that it would help me find shares on p2pool. P2pool for axe uses the p2poolaxe software on github, which is a fork of p2pool for bitcoin. So you have to set the appropriate difficulty to your user filed.
Update on p2pool integration and proposal official. This video explains the essence of both solo and pool mining. However, if you have a fast miner then it is inefficient for it to mine lower difficulty shares. Because of the way p2pool manages difficulty adjustments on the sharechain, it is important. Hashrates are very rough estimates based on the number of shares submitted in the past day. Importantly, running your own p2pool node locally doesnt count as solo mining youll still be working with the pool. Instead of allowing the pool to assign you a share difficulty, this sets a specific share difficulty value. Vertcoin vtc oneclick miner ocm guide for nvidia cards. Most of these blocks will be below 100 in difficulty level, but a small amount of them will be over 100 in difficulty level and still less than 10,000. Alliancedeveloper bounty update p2pool sign in to follow this.
For example currently in p2pool 7903 most of the miners have a share difficulty of 7. Is there a way to change my share difficulty on a p2pool. P2pool the official homepage of the p2pool software. The blocks that get into the p2pool block chain called the share chain are the same blocks that would get into the cryptocoin block chain, only they have a lower difficulty. The rational behind this is, to enable miners with lower hashrate to send hashes in reasonable intervals, allowing them to participate in the payouts. The difficulty target for finding p2pool shares on the sharechain. One such possible solution to this is a more decentralized pool called p2pool where there is a consensus of mining shares per miner on a separate chain. The pool has a starting difficulty for a 1ghs miner to find two sharesday on average. The pplns payment system is not to be considered as the best for slow hash rate miners. Think of p2pool as a mining pool, for bitcoin, litecoin, vertcoin, and other cryptocurrencies just, with a twist.
This will increase the diffculty of the blockchain, but the p2pool will keep the share difficulty low, so others can submit shares to the p2pool nodes. The share difficulty calculation on newer releases is badly broken and has been since the halving. Because of the way p2pool manages difficulty adjustments on the sharechain, it is important to maintain low latency between the miners and the p2pool node to avoid miners submitting shares too late to enter the. If youre just mining with your pc 1 or 2 graphics cards, then pool mining is the way to go. As a reward for this effort a miner is given feathercoins. In this situation, the pool might set their share difficulty at 100. Run browser enter you ip address enter password default. The following users addresses have submitted at least 1 valid share in the past 24 hours. In all these schemes stands for a block reward minus pool fee and is a probability of finding a block in a share attempt, where is current block difficulty. How to setup and optimize your cgminer config file anyone who starts out mining decred if you want to get the best mhashs from your gpu or gpus. Mining difficulties in most situations difficulty will not affect your mining income, unless you used a extremely high or low value to mine, which could lead to two results, either the difficulty is too high that your miner can not find a share in time.
The reason is now that bip66 has gone into effect, mining bitcoins with p2pools old versions are now unable to mine on the current blockchain. You will get paid when your miner solves a share with a difficulty greater than the current p2pool share difficulty see the website, this is currently about 1. How to setup and optimize your cgminer config file. The blocks that get into the p2pool block chain called the share chain are the same. Need help changing share difficulty on ocm on p2pool. P2pool scanner will provide you a list of nearest mining pool nodes for bitcoin, litecoin and dash cryptocurrencies. Were now ready to connect ccminer and start mining.