questions about setting up a mining pool
Questions tagged [mining-pool-setup]
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How does one go about setting up a mining pool?
There are already a number of mining pools out for Monero, are there instructions or software that people can use to set up their own mining pool?
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What resources are required for running a Monero mining pool?
What are the approximate resource costs of running a Monero mining pool for the following number of users:
10 users
100 users
1000 users
Additionally, it is most efficient to run the mining pool with the Monerodo OS or another service?
sgp
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How to limit CPU load on mining pool
My pool's CPU load is too high. It has a 24 thread CPU. What is a good solution to use other servers to share the load calculation or together ?
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cryptonote-universal-pool Stratum authentication failed
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…
xmrpool.eu
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How can I improve performance of my pool?
I've been running a small pool with friends for several days with few blocks mined (yay!). I am running Clintar's fork of the pool code: https://github.com/clintar/cryptonote-xmr-pool
Now I know the code is open so I can start digging. I'm a…
user652
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What stops the miner or the pool owner from cheating?
Jafar the malevolent pool owner checks for solved blocks, any only allows a percentage to go to the pool bounty, and the remainder going to his personal secret bounty. To the miner, it is imperceptible, as the cheat percent is sufficiently low.
What…
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Why can't a pool find block after the hard fork
I know that it's my problem, but I don't have any idea what happened.
Here are my pool stats(private pool):
Here are the stats before the fork:
Early on, all was good. A few days before the hard fork, I upgraded the monero cli tools to the latest…
Igor Dyakonov
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Monero pool configuration
I am trying to configure a pool using node-cryptonote-pool.
I have a few questions about how to setup config.json.
This section in particular: Code
And even more specifically, these lines:
"transferFee": 5000000000, //fee to pay for each…
Liaho
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Please help - Monero-Universal-Pool Admin Wallet Fail { }
I’m messing with monero-universal-pool and I have the blockchain synced, the wallet RPC going (at log level=2 and just showing green DEBUGSs and blue info/blocks received INFO, and I can connect miners to the pool. When I have the RPC going and go…
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Help to Setup a Monero mining farm $4000 Budget
After to try some pools and alt cryptocoins by some weeks, I'm now really serious about to make a Monero farm because I believe in this potential, Monero is Awesome!
Today I mine in DwarfPool, just more couple of days to get my 0.1 XMR to try others…
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Hiding TCP traffic for Monero miners
Using Wireshark I have noticed that the stratum protocols transmits the JSON strings without encryption.
Is the amount of network traffic high when mining monero? Is it possible that the continuos tcp traffic is raising suspicions for the internet…
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How do you add support for (server side) SSL/TLS mining?
Basically, the title. I run a small pool and want to add SSL/TLS support for miners. I tried making openssl manage the connection and pipe it locally to the correct port, but that doesn't work.
Any help appreciated, thanks.
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What happens to pool server if redis data is lost?
I was looking at http://cryptonotemining.org/ and it looks really easy to set up. I'm wondering what the ramifications would be if redis lost some data? I'm not too worried about total data loss. But I am curious what would happen if a primary redis…
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How can I get slush's scoring code from zone's code to work in clintars code?
This returns null:
redisClient.hget(config.coin + ':stats', 'lastBlockFound', function(error, result)
And is making the score calcuation for each share = 0.
Context:
clintars code is nice because it works with modern…
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Starting a new pool. questions about payout levels
We are still in a closed testing phase making sure our hardware and software are working properly. I would like to ask the community if setting payouts to a very low value like 0.01 is a smart thing to do or not. I know low payouts are good to a low…
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