Re: [1500 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool
Does the amount of network traffic used by p2pool bother anyone? I have some ideas for how to reduce the amount of traffic (without improving propagation performance), but the traffic doesn't bother me, so I haven't made implementing it a priority.
The other project I have in mind is trying to improve fairness independent of performance by using some sort of share DAG (e.g. with uncles) or one of the other ideas mentioned in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.msg19248232#msg19248232. That's going to require far more work than the network traffic reduction, though.
Alternately, I could work on polishing the current code a bit, merging into the main p2pool repo, and organizing the community to upgrade. If I do that before the fairness work, that means that we have to do another big upgrade later.
Thoughts?
The other project I have in mind is trying to improve fairness independent of performance by using some sort of share DAG (e.g. with uncles) or one of the other ideas mentioned in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.msg19248232#msg19248232. That's going to require far more work than the network traffic reduction, though.
Alternately, I could work on polishing the current code a bit, merging into the main p2pool repo, and organizing the community to upgrade. If I do that before the fairness work, that means that we have to do another big upgrade later.
Thoughts?
The traffic does not bother me, but it appears to affect others...
On improving fairness (and possibly variance for smaller miners/dust payments) I had talked with Sergio from Rootstock and he had some cool ideas. Considering they are going live soon it might be worth following up. The gist was that P2Pool would merge mine both BTC and RSK, and that the block reward would be trustlessly pegged immediately to RSK where smaller payouts could be accumulated and redeemed for BTC when the given miner decided to cash out. There is a lot to flush out there, but at the time (several months ago) Sergio offered to assist with the development.
I'd also like to see our fork resolved ASAP as our variance is just plain ugly
Thanks again for your work on this!