Quote from: sharky112065 on November 01, 2012, 12:19:34 AM

Quote from: forrestv on October 31, 2012, 11:24:20 PM

Quote from: Krak on October 31, 2012, 11:01:39 PM

Quote from: forrestv on October 31, 2012, 10:19:46 PM

I don't think ASICs will need any special support. P2Pool can provide getwork results fast enough for hundreds of GH/s (from a normal computer) and could be optimized for more. In addition, any timestamp rolling multiplies that.

What about mining on a remote node? It seems like ASICs could kill P2P Mining.

Any serious P2Pool user, one serious enough to have ASICs, should definitely have their own P2Pool node...

Because of course no one uses a remote p2pool node for a failover backup. /sarcasm

Sounds like no real testing has been done to verify it will not be an issue.

I'm starting to get the feeling that you are sticking your head in the sand and hoping that everything will just work.

Quote from: Smoovious on October 31, 2012, 11:49:22 PM

Well... a while ago, pyramining briefly switched over to my public node while they were working on some stuff.

I ended up having between 200-400GH/s at the time, and everything seemed to go just fine with my bandwidth, so p2pmining should be ok with the added bandwidth of the ASIC traffic.

If p2pmining would let you use higher diff shares, or maybe they can set up a high-hash node too. They're pretty much doing their own sub-share-chain, so maybe they will do something to accommodate the ASICs.

Not sure if they would tho. It sounded like they came into existence mainly to cater to the smaller miner who needed lower-diff shares.

-- Smoov

ps: Krak is in one of the outlying cities/towns that don't have a lot of infastructure to spread around. Rural-ish kind of area. That's where his main bandwidth bottleneck is. They get priced accordingly. Too much demand, not enough supply. So they get capped more. Sad

For a quick answer. But the longer answer is still that getwork is anticipated not to work as well with ASICs. Hence the several new implementations out there to address this GBT and Stratum are the main two that I've seen.