Re: [3500 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool
On a brighter note - 7 blocks & counting...... 
That's great. Now if only it was usable by smaller miners. I was squeezed out. My node is empty because all of them had the same hash rate or me (1.2 TH/s) or lower, and couldn't get any shares. There are few things more frustrating than waiting 18 hours for a share only to see it roll off in 24 hours without a block.
M
Not to sound harsh, but mining in general is not going well for small miners. This doesn't appear to be a p2pool problem, but a general bitcoin problem. It's the nature of the beast.
I'm doing just fine on a "conventional" pool.
M
I don't know what you are talking about, I am getting great results on p2pool. I get around $40 a week on 400gh/s. I think that's pretty good. I got $40 only overnight.
I thought even with higher pool hash rate and less shares you still get the same overall because you get more frequent smaller payouts.
Over time (and for smaller miners perhaps a great amount of time) p2pools payout should always be about the same, and often better as shown in the recent pool comparison thread.
As your hashrate represents a smaller % of the global pool variance will increase.
There are plenty of small miners that have mined successfully on the Coin Cadence node, it just takes great patience to wait for the share, and then hope a block is found while its valid.
Today is a great example of a huge payday for a small miner with a share in the chain... Its also not hard to look back and find a relatively long period of time where they may not have had a share and may have gone a while without payout...
Here is an example of a ~350GH/s miner on my node who cleaned up today:
http://minefast.coincadence.com/miner.php?id=1GiGw23Y6hvD7TtEw1s29hMkaoUPHJ7Z7p