[185 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool

Quote from: forrestv on December 03, 2013, 06:48:45 PM

P2Pool release 13.4 - commit hash: 8e7cb8223a38bdd4ff55971d2945f5ccb571e063

Windows binary: http://u.forre.st/u/wftncvpn/p2pool_win32_13.4.zip
Windows binary signature: http://u.forre.st/u/eoietnxc/p2pool_win32_13.4.zip.sig
Source zipball: https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool/zipball/13.4
Source tarball: https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool/tarball/13.4

Changes:
* Require Litecoin >=0.8.5.1
* Warn about old versions of Bitcoin and Terracoin
* Many improvements to web interface and graphs
* Fixed error messages being created in bitcoind's debug.log due to invalid message being sent

P2Pool is a decentralized pool that works by creating a P2P network of miner nodes. These nodes work on a chain of shares similar to Bitcoin's blockchain. Each node works on a block that includes payouts to the previous shares' owners and the node itself. There is no central point of failure, making it DoS resistant.

Related:
P2Pool homepage: http://p2pool.in/
P2Pool stats page, made by twmz: http://p2pool.info/
P2Pool subsidies - Several people are donating to all people using P2Pool in order to promote its decentralized nature -https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=57027.0
Litecoin P2Pool status - http://p2pool.litecointools.com/

Things that are not P2Pool (and just people running P2Pool): p2pool.org

Graphs: http://p2pool.info/ http://forre.st:9332/ 

P2Pool wiki page | GitHub project page
New: Mailing list for urgent news (updates, bugs): http://groups.google.com/group/p2pool-notifications

List of all blocks found: http://blockexplorer.com/address/1Kz5QaUPDtKrj5SqW5tFkn7WZh8LmQaQi4

Getting P2Pool

• Run bitcoin with the RPC interface enabled - see the next section for instructions on how to do this
• Download p2pool: (see links at top for binaries!)
  
  • git: git clone git://github.com/forrestv/p2pool.git
• Run p2pool:
  
  • Windows py2exe: run_p2pool.exe
  • Source: python run_p2pool.py
• Run a miner daemon (see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool#Miners ) with long polling connecting to 127.0.0.1 on port 9332 with any username and password
  
  • With all miners, using a high FPS target (30?) or a low intensity (7?) helps a lot with reducing stales.

HOWTO: Bitcoin server mode
You must be running the Bitcoin client, and it must have its RPC interface enabled.

Open the Bitcoin data folder. See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory

Make a new file named bitcoin.conf (not bitcoin.conf.txt! You might have to go into Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Folder Options > View and uncheck 'Hide extensions for known file types'). Paste this into it:

rpcpassword=<A LONG RANDOM PASSWORD THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO REMEMBER>
server=1

Dependencies for running FROM SOURCE:

• Bitcoin 0.5.0 or higher
• Python 2.5 or higher
• python-argparse for Python 2.6 and lower
• Twisted (Ubuntu package python-twisted)

Additional options of interest:
    -w PORT: Listen for workers on a port other than 9332.
    -a BITCOIN_ADDRESS: Mine to this address instead of requesting one from Bitcoin.

Last, forward port 9333 through your firewall to the host running p2pool! (Oh, and join #p2pool on freenode!)