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so if I understand, the purpose is to encourage many pools; to distribute mining; keeping the chains from being on too few pools?
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You may end having to split it into rar files and host them in pieces.
the file sending services have 2Gb limits, but not for publicly hosting. These are for send to email type file storage.
wetransfer.com for example is 2Gb file send limit.
a couple questions:
The prebuilt pool server would be run on a separate machine from the mining rig?
Or can it run on a windows client?
Can the pool server and mining be done on the same box?
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I’m pulling together a prebuilt p2pool server instance so that that will run inside a virtualbox. Idea is that our windows based miners can download and install virtualbox + the prebuilt, secured, ubuntu server that’s preconfigured with a p2pool server. They will just need to change the default payout address and off they go.
Will be testing with UKMark over the next day or so to make sure it’s n00b friendy then i’ll upload it to somewhere (any thoughts on where i can host a 900Mb image?)
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It can be hosted on the same machine or separate dedicated machine, entirely up to you. It will be running inside a virtualbox (free software like vmware) so you literally install virtual box on your windows pc and it creates a separate “virtual Machine” inside it. You then copy my image into the virtualbox and then press go. You basically end up with a ubuntu instance running inside your windows system.
Other than download the software, you should be good to go in ~5mins.
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Absolutely. It’s easy take down 2 or 3 big pools but to take down hundreds of p2pool nodes is a hell of a lot more difficult especially if they are private, non-advertised nodes.
Also (as I’ve mentioned in other threads) as p2pool uses only a wallet address to identify you, there’s no registration needed (so keeping a bit more privacy) and if you move between pools you don’t have to wait for pplns to ramp up provided you use the same address across pools.