If you don't know what a blockchain and a Bitcoin client is, then I suggest you take a good, long, hard look at whether you ought to be mining in the first place.


And what have you done for P2Pool so far, besides running your mouth? forrestv, veqtrus, and jtoomim have done more for P2Pool than the rest of us combined, and on a voluntary basis too. Please show some respect.


The next reward halving is projected to be on May 17, 2020. That's 3 years from now. Not exactly what most of us here would call "around the corner."