p2pool defcoin mining

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  • Pool 0 for CPU mining FUTURE PLANS WHEN NEEDED when there is enough hashrate to split USB. Until then mine on USB. If nobody is mining and difficulty is down so CPU mining is possible, CPU can be reached atcpu.defcoin.host:13370 or 135.148.43.187:13370


  • Pool 1 for USB ASICs mining <50mh hosted at  usb.defcoin.host:13371 or 135.148.43.188:13371


    ALSO CPU AND SLOWER MINERS GO HERE UNTIL ENOUGH GROWTH OCCURS TO SPLIT THIS POOL

  • Pool 2 for ASIC mining with >50mh hosted at  asic.defcoin.host:13372 or 135.148.43.189:13372

what is p2pool?

"P2Pool is a decentralized mining pool that works by creating a peer-to-peer network of miner nodes". Important part is also that you are not mining to the node you are connected to, but to the network of nodes. Payout is PPLNS with a long ramp up and cool off. Since mining is done to the network and not the node you are connected to, you can switch nodes without loosing out on payments.

This reddit post about vertcoin p2pool goes over many aspects of p2pool, including common confusions. If you want to know more it would be a good place to start https://www.reddit.com/r/vertcoin/comments/22hved/vertcoin_p2pool_faq/

why multiple pools

By keeping each pool to a smaller hash range, everyone has a chance to win instead of a CPU competing against a fast ASIC. The caveat here is that this only works when each of the separate pools collective hash rates are somewhat similar to each other otherwise the same situation would be happening just between pools instead of within a pool.


Having multiple pools is also more in the spirit as it decentralizes the mining more.


Towards the end of the linked reddit post in the previous section, there is a part talking about multiple pools. I found a larger more in depth discussion about multiple pools previously, but have not been able to find it again yet.

mining

You can connect your miners to public nodes or run your own local node with your miners connected to it, since remember we are mining to the network not the node. For best results, mine to the node in the correct pool that you have the best connection to. Use the p2pool scanner [***LINK HERE...on to do list***] to find nodes.


To mine choose the proper pool to the left and use a username of defcoin wallet addr that you want payouts to go to. You can use coinomi, but some people are having issues, just a warning if you do go that way.


If you want to setup your own node to  mine to, expanding the network, or both, follow instructions at https://github.com/charlesrocket/p2pool-defcoin



More information and troubleshooting here

https://github.com/p2pool/p2pool/issues/411

more information links here-sources of above info and github and defcoin-ng.org