Misleading.

It's true that "The more GH/s power you have during each shift the more shares you earn", but pooled mining doesn't give any one miner more hashing power. All pooled mining is about is reducing individual variance, not increased earnings.

This has scam written all over it.

Thank you very much for that info. That was my fear.

As for hardware, I'm using Antminer U2s. But, I don't think the hardware is sat fault. If I point my Ants (via Bfgminer) directly at p2pool, it works. I don't get those messages, and the p2pool stats page displays a local hash rate.

This problem arises when I first point my miners to a proxy I'm writing, and then the proxy talks to p2pool. The stratum communication looks identical to me:

Message to p2pool:

Response from p2pool:

And then in p2pool's console output I see these:


I'm still trying to debug what I've done wrong, but I figured stopping in here and double checking my understanding of p2pool's message was a good start.

Still confused as to why I'm getting a "result: true", despite p2pool claiming the hash doesn't meet difficulty 1 though.

Surely somebody knows which it's referring to?

So, I'm in the process of writing on Stratum client, and I'm getting some odd results from p2pool.

In the p2pool log, I'm seeing a ton of these:


I've tried reading through p2pool's source, but Python isn't my thing and the code doesn't appear well structured IMHO. So, it was hard for me to tell if "target" referred to:

a) A Bitcoin block target - unlikely
b) A p2pool share - my first thought
or
c) A difficulty 1 (or x) share - my fear

My first guess was B, as my transactions with P2Pool have looked like this:


And P2Pool's response:


So, it appears to be giving me a thumbs up, and my miner is happily mining away. Unfortunately if I visit http://localhost:9332 in my browser, it reports my local rate as 0. Thusly why I'm starting to fear C 

Any thoughts? I hope I made sense of that all.

I agree to a point, but isn't Bitcoin supposed to be "over throwing fiat"? I mean, when I deposit cash in my bank I don't think about the what-ifs of if the bank went belly up. And, if Bitcoin is supposed to be better than this, then a simple wallet app losing his money is unacceptable. We should _at least_ have reliable wallets, and shouldn't have to second guess if the app itself is going to eat our coins.

That's my 2-cents from reading the article.

I cannot rationalize those changes, short of malice.

I tried telling my 6 year old about Bitcoins... but the moment he realized "mining" had nothing to do with Minecraft, I think I lost his interest 

Just sent a small tip.

Let me guess... single? 

Girls... not sure. Women, yes.

I DID!!!!

Thank you!

Since we're talking drafts, and implementation. Both that sticky, and I think Slush's website, mention HTTP Poll as an optional transport mechanism. Do any mining apps support HTTP Poll? Standard TCP sockets seems to be the prevailing implementation.

As someone who's working on a Stratum implementation right now, I must say this is a VERY narrow view of reality.

I've been using the following resources to gain my knowledge of the protocol:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55842.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=108533.0
http://mining.bitcoin.cz/stratum-mining
https://www.btcguild.com/new_protocol.php

Notice how 50% of those links were forum posts   

But, I'm guessing none of the discussion here counts as documentation either and can be entirely ignored 

Satoshi hasn't posted since 2010, so I'm not sure what you're rambling on about.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=showPosts

Then how did you come by your knowledge? Seems fishy to have super secret knowledge nobody else has.

I, for one, have a hard time believing an account with a post count of 6 had such "inside information". But, feel free to actually /prove/ me wrong.

This statement doesn't make sense. Was there a club for gox high rollers? Lol.

Either way, OP misses the point that Gox wad /his/ fault, in part for leaving a balance in such a shady company. I mean, DANG.... There is a reason the term Goxed was a thing BEFORE their last goxing.

Do you have any links to support your claims? I'm not seeing anything on their website.

If it has a PIN you could always unload it to Bluebird and the purchase Bitcoin as normally.

0.16% of my total assets are Bitcoin, and happy with my level of diversification.

My calculations agree, we've got about 1 day to go! Ask me again in 12 hours and I'll tell ya the same 

Dude, that's a pretty racist thing. You do realize that the actions of the Chinese government and a few Chinese individuals are not representative of 99% of the population?

It's like saying that Bitcoin should ban Americans because of the IRS and Wall Street.

The irony really is that it's cases like this when those countries need Bitcoin the most.

That is how it's designed to operate. Each share will never receive 100% of it's value paid, so therefore each share will forever sit around in some partially unpaid state. It's a highly convoluted way of charging operating fees without using the word "fee".

Not that fees are bad, they're needed to cover all sorts of things - especially in (effectively) a PPS pool... just misleading the way it's currently advertised.