Quote from: BorisTheSpider on January 30, 2014, 03:14:18 AM

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Feel free to use https://vtcpool.co.uk if you prefer a traditional pool. Especially, users with lower hashrates may find earnings
are better on the traditional pool. There is room for a mixture of pool types, but please help further strengthen the decentralisation
of Vertcoin by using p2pool if it works well for you.
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JayCoin and vedalken254 ran a pool which was a node in the p2pool networks of several different coins. It was a lot of mostly unpaid work and they didn't recover when vedalken254 was unable to work on it for 2 months.

The website code is available:

Quote from: JayCoin on June 06, 2013, 10:15:26 PM

Link to code http://serason.com/p2pmining.zip

You will need to build the database by inspecting the code. Shouldn't be too hard. Haven't updated p2pool code edits since stratum was implemented.

Enjoy

Quote from: JayCoin on December 29, 2012, 04:43:33 PM

The server is down. I sent a message to the guy who runs the server. Maybe he is on vacation, but I think it is more likely that he stopped paying for the server. He hasn't been on the forum or contacted me fort a while. Anyway, I am going to post the code on github next week after the new year. Someone else can give it a go.

Quote from: vedalken254 on February 05, 2013, 05:28:48 PM

Well fuck real life... I sincerely apologize guys. Server went down due to me not being on the reasonable internet for over 2 months. However, I will be contacting JayCoin to see about running the sucker again if he hasn't already posted the shit to github. Again, I apologize.

Veddy

Quote from: Smoovious on April 03, 2013, 06:06:41 PM

Quote from: stevegee58 on April 03, 2013, 03:44:15 PM

JayCoin's motives were noble I'm sure but I never quite got the point of joining a pool that's nothing more than a node in p2pool. It defeats the whole purpose of p2pool which is DDOS-resistance.

P2Pmining's focus was 2-pronged...

First, it allowed smaller miners to still participate with p2pool without the big variance headache.

P2Pmining would earn shares of its own on the p2pool network, same as any miner, but it also ran its own share system, to further subdivide the p2pool payouts proportionally among the P2Pmining userbase.

This worked well for small miners that only had a couple hundred MH/s to work with.

The other focus was it also facilitated merge-mining for the userbase, saving them from having to run 4 or 5 different daemons at the same time on top of their own p2pool node.

IMHO, P2Pmining was nice to have. I usually had my miners set up to round-robin between my own p2pool instance, P2Pmining, and BTCGuild. What P2Pmining offered me at the time was that it was also merge-mining DVC, which I couldn't merge-mine locally as there wasn't a windows binary daemon for it, although there is one now.

As more ASICs hit the scene, P2Pmining would have become even more important for GPU miners, who are finding it harder to hold onto the shares they generate as their orphan rate climbs.

(the TRC p2pool was having this problem when I got fed up and segregated my own TRC p2pool network so it didn't touch the main network... some very high hash miners just kept orphaning 75-80% of my shares, sometimes a whole minute later, and there weren't any more than 7 or 8 connected nodes at the time. Latency of basically empty blocks and a small p2pool network, shouldn't have been an issue at all, but those high rate miners just overwhelm the lower rate ones... and I can't confirm it, but I also think one of them was intentionally ignoring shares of others, only building on their own, but that is beyond this topic)

P2Pmining just helped with scale. As the p2pool network difficulty climbs, P2Pmining was a way to still offer lower difficulty shares without having to have the whole p2pool network change to accommodate it.

-- Smoov