Eligius does it too right? They don't guarantee it 100% of the time but most payments are made that way.
EDIT: To clarify how this works, the miners who contribute to mining a block don't necessarily get paid from that block, their shares get credited like any other pool and upon reaching a minimum payment threshold their eventual payments are made using some future block's coinbase. That avoids the issues p2pool has with dust payouts vs. minimum share value.
EDIT: To clarify how this works, the miners who contribute to mining a block don't necessarily get paid from that block, their shares get credited like any other pool and upon reaching a minimum payment threshold their eventual payments are made using some future block's coinbase. That avoids the issues p2pool has with dust payouts vs. minimum share value.
Right - that works for big pools that find blocks often. If you aren't a huge pool then payment variance (or just payment waiting period) would not make miners happy :p
Latest code should be working very well with vardiff and share acceptance.
Payment processing and IP banning to mitigate low-diff share attacks is under development. Right now I'm stuck on getting address validation. Looks like it should be: slice off 4 byte checksum -> decode rest as varint -> keccak (w/ 64 byte output ??) -> compare result to checksum.
The usage instructions are on git hub.
thank you very helpful, by chance can you please be more specific?
Just scroll down for the instructions. They're in README.md.
these instructions are to setup your own pool aren't they?