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I'm trying to setup the mining pool using https://github.com/fancoder/cryptonote-universal-pool (please do not suggest to use https://github.com/zone117x/node-cryptonote-pool because I also used that and I had a problem with incrementing balances for my miners).

Anyway I've cloned the repo of cryptonote-universal-pool then configured the config.json and then I had a first problem with:

Error: Failed to parse block
at Object.BlockTemplate.nextBlob (/opt/xmr/pool2/lib/pool.js:120:23)
at Object.Miner.getJob (/opt/xmr/pool2/lib/pool.js:297:41)

I changed the package.json "cryptonote-util" from git://github.com/fancoder/node-cryptonote-util.git to git://github.com/lucasjones/node-cryptonote-util.git

After that pool started nicly and I started to test it. Currently I'm trying to connect minerd from another host and I'm getting 

[2016-09-13 19:55:36] Stratum authentication failed
[2016-09-13 19:55:36] ...retry after 10 seconds

I checked the configuration and there is nothing about authentication (here is the example of the config https://github.com/fancoder/cryptonote-universal-pool#2-configuration)

My minerd execution looks like this:

./minerd -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://<pool_ip>:3333 -u <95 chars wallet address> -p x

I'm stuck at that point. Can anyone explain what is happening or tell me how to debug it?

scoobybejesus
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The first error (failure to parse blocks) is pretty likely to be due to the lack of ringct support in the C++ lib part of the pool code. You seem to have fixed it by using another version.

The second error is most likely due to an address being passed which doesn't match the expected format. This can be due to two reasons: either the address is really wrong (Monero addresses are 95 characters long, and start with a 4), or the pool's address being wrongly set (the pool will compare the first character of the miner address with the pool address' first character and expect the same).

The address validation code is at the end of lib/utils.js (isValidAddress). You can add traces to see which part of it fails.

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