Questions tagged [mining-pool-setup]

questions about setting up a 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?
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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…
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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…
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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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Does setting the maxDiff on my private pool to a relatively low number hurt my pool's chances of solving a block?

That's the main question. The rest below is an explanation as to why I'm asking that question. I'm running Clintar's pool software for my private pool. I've noticed that no matter what port I connect to, the difficulty always ratchets up to a level…
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