Re: [400GH/s] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool

Quote from: Clock Loop on November 14, 2012, 07:03:26 AM

Quote from: aadje93 on November 14, 2012, 06:37:14 AM

This will "give" you 1 difficulty shares if i look correctly (i see alot of accepted on my gpu's but not so much on the miner node) and this will count your count of the shares from the miners node and give a payout to your adress (use adress as username, and no password) Then you still have some variance, but its less Wink

Can't I give p2pool an argument that forces specific difficulty shares?
And if setting lower difficulty gets more shares, why doesn't everyone just set theirs like that?
(perhaps lower difficult shares are worth less?)

Even if they are, at least i'd get some shares, instead of none.
In all the documentation I read, no miner documentation ever said that one should use servers with difficulty to a low number if you are hashing less than X....

I have read people suggest low hashers use server pools who serve lower difficulty.
Can't p2pool be configured to serve low difficulty? (i understand that the miners cannot choose difficulty tho)

The only node that actually does this is P2PMining.com. They count the amount of difficulty-1 (or higher; they support variable difficulty) "pseudo" shares and pay out with their own PPLNS system. The reason p2pool can't do this for everybody is because there'd be thousands of shares getting transferred between all of the nodes on the network every second, causing a lot of orphans/DOAs and extremely high bandwidth usage. This is why you can't set your p2pool share difficulty lower than the current network difficulty, however some of the bigger miners volunteer to set their difficulty higher to lower variance for the rest of the network.