so i tried
https://github.com/jtoomim/p2pool - it worked ( although the invalid share rate was higher, sometimes 100% cpu usage.. )
now i switched back to
https://github.com/p2pool/p2pool/ . but here the network is only 0.5 PH big ( 3 PH in the other version )
so am i an the wrong network, or are miners just frightened of the transition? will soemone join me?
Hello,
The network hash rate for the main branch (forrestv-veqtrus version) is indeed currently only 0.5 PH. It fluctuates a bit throughout the day. Since the split between the jtoomim and main branch the hash power in the main branch has decreased drastically, however, it is now again a bit higher compared to a few days ago. Before the split it was around >2PH on average (this fluctuated also a lot) if I remember it correctly, but even then P2pool was a very small pool.
The reason of the decline (this is just my assessment of the situation) is on the one hand the fact that the network has split, and on the other hand the confusion in the P2pool community during the transition to segWit, and the not so straightforward way (through github) to get the segWit compatible version of P2pool main branch. This has now changed. Forrestv has updated the links on
http://p2pool.in/ and veqtrus has merged his segWit compatible p2pool with the main branch on github. I expect that this will result over time in a higher hash rate for the p2pool main branch (I hope).