I love P2Pool and having been running it for a while but I have a pretty marginal rig at around 700MH/s and with the latest hike in difficulty I'm just not getting any shares any more. I'm sure I will at some point but knowing my luck that will happen with P2Pool to fails to find a block and so all that hashing effort will be wasted.
Is it possible to lower the share difficulty so smaller miners are still getting regular shares albeit smaller ones ? I'm assuming that would be a fundamental change to the P2Pool source that will be incompatible with other P2Pool nodes out there ? If so, would it be possible to create a fork, say EasierP2Pool and recruit enough participants ?
Thanks
At 700MH/s, your best bet is to retire or go to another pool like BTC Guild. I'm at about 7.5GH/s and my estimated time to share is 2.9 hours. You're looking at around 31 hours per share, and with variance, there will be days when you don't get a share at all.
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