Bitcoin p2pool howto
Your efficiency, not the nodes efficiency, relative to the global pool is important to monitor. If your efficiency is equal to or better then the global average you are mining at an advantage compared to the majority of the pool.
Most front ends will provide both node and pool efficiency. After you have given your miners some time to establish a baseline review your DOA and orphan share rate as compared to the overall pools. A high DOA rate means you may have something wrong with your miner configuration while a high orphan rate means there is high latency between your node and the rest of the pool. Start Mining on P2Pool. Setup a local node There are many great tutorials in our Community and Resources section for setting up p2pool on the operating system and for the currencies of your choice.
Want to try P2Pool out first? We recommend setting three separate p2pool nodes in your miner, a primary and two backups. If your primary fails your miners will switch to a backup node and you will not loose any time or accumulated shares, this is part of the DDoS resistance of P2Pool. Do not use an exchange address for your payments!
Mine on a Public Node When choosing your public nodes for p2pool keep in mind three important factors: Most front ends will provide both node and pool efficiency. After you have given your miners some time to establish a baseline review your DOA and orphan share rate as compared to the overall pools. A high DOA rate means you may have something wrong with your miner configuration while a high orphan rate means there is high latency between your node and the rest of the pool.
Start Mining on P2Pool. Setup a local node There are many great tutorials in our Community and Resources section for setting up p2pool on the operating system and for the currencies of your choice. Want to try P2Pool out first? We recommend setting three separate p2pool nodes in your miner, a primary and two backups. If your primary fails your miners will switch to a backup node and you will not loose any time or accumulated shares, this is part of the DDoS resistance of P2Pool.
Do not use an exchange address for your payments! Mine on a Public Node When choosing your public nodes for p2pool keep in mind three important factors: Latency Recommendations Greater than ms — Too far, look for a closer node Less than ms — Looking good Less than 50ms — Great, your in the zone! Less than 30ms — It's raining hashes