P2Pool mining issues
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Hi all,
Ive been mining on the following P2Pool with 2 machines : http://69.27.173.229:19327/static/
Despite the fact both my miners are showing success in their consoles:
[2017-12-09 20:18:31] Stratum difficulty set to 721.876 (0.01101)
[2017-12-09 20:18:31] neoscrypt block 1998316, diff 36.393
[2017-12-09 20:18:31] GPU #0: MSI GTX 980 Ti, 938.60 kH/s
[2017-12-09 20:18:31] accepted: 41/41 (diff 0.012), 936.41 kH/s yes!
[2017-12-09 20:18:31] Stratum difficulty set to 757.97 (0.01157)The site is constantly showing me as not having any shares.
My address is 6sF3aZ6p6eC47DGxsCn6fFrwCxaeejAJ5K and I’m going to leave my machines mining overnight to see if it changes, but I’m at a total loss as to why this isn’t working for me.
I was mining fine on The Blocks Factory, but wanted to support the pool FTC reccomends.
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@peggle2k said in P2Pool mining issues:
6sF3aZ6p6eC47DGxsCn6fFrwCxaeejAJ5K
You have been mining for an hour : http://69.27.173.229:19327/static/graphs.html?Day
~1.25 M/Hash.
If you keep your stratum, you will start to gain shares. If you look at the charts for similar powered miners you can see when you might start getting a share. The longer you are connected the more stratum you gain. The p2pool also optimizes over time to pass you appropriate difficulty shares for your miner power.
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@wrapper said in P2Pool mining issues:
@peggle2k said in P2Pool mining issues:
6sF3aZ6p6eC47DGxsCn6fFrwCxaeejAJ5K
You have been mining for an hour : http://69.27.173.229:19327/static/graphs.html?Day
~1.25 M/Hash.
If you keep your stratum, you will start to gain shares. If you look at the charts for similar powered miners you can see when you might start getting a share. The longer you are connected the more stratum you gain. The p2pool also optimizes over time to pass you appropriate difficulty shares for your miner power.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I’m not entirely sure what I’m looking at on that site but the general idea I’m getting is - Keep mining and I’ll start getting shares? On top of that the longer I mine for the more shares I’ll get?
Just trying to work out from a hobbyist perspective if P2Pool is worth using over a centralized pool.
Also, without sounding like an idiot I have no idea what ‘keep your stratum’ means.
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Basically you need to gain shares. There is a limited amount of shares available and you are fighting with other miners to get as many of these as possible. The more shares you get the higher your payout will be.
That’s why it is possible to not get anything at the beginning. But after you mined for a while and the % of shares that you own stabilizes you will get paid.
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@tobi97l So a share is not when the mining software says it accepted something?
I guess that might be where I have been misunderstanding
Also, its not going to be messing me up mining to the same wallet from 2 different machines is it?
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I’ve switched pools to http://94.242.222.27:19327/static/ now, as the US one had my latency above 100ms, which might have been causing an issue?
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The good thing about p2pool is you can switch between p2pool pools with the same version : if one is down another can be fall back and you retain the shares, they are distributed globally. This gives high availability to the network.
You get paid when anyone in the global pool obtains a block, based on the proportion of shares.
Re: Stratum : There is a lot to learn / research, so I’ll explain,
pools have agreed mechanisms to prevent coin and pool swapping. One of these is stratum, by which, you get more shares the longer you are attached, up to a max. If you shut down mining, you will loose stratum and have to build it up again.
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@wrapper I see, so, if I were to leave my miners going for 12 hours, would you expect that to result in some kind of payout?
I have a base line that I know I can earn approx 5 FTC in 12 hours using a centralized pool, which means if I ear significantly below that using P2Pool it simply isn’t worth it, despite the fact I want to support FTC as much as I can.
EDIT: As a side note - wallet syncing is taking forever. over 24 hours and I’m still 3 years 25 weeks behind :(
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So, over 12 hours, no shares. Any ideas?
Here is my graph:
I just spent over 12 hours mining for free :(
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@wrapper said in P2Pool mining issues:
6sF3aZ6p6eC47DGxsCn6fFrwCxaeejAJ5K
The 20MHash was getting shares - 2MHash is starting to get low power (compared to the global pool hash) , should you have continued you would have got 10% of the 20MHash payouts…
