Is it possible to update the Monero consensus mechanism to reject PoW from non-p2pool miners? This would solve 51% attacks and make p2pool the only way to mine in a pool.

This would be a huge fork, I know, but potentially good for the network. Or would the risk of destroying the network hash rate be too great?

What privacy effects would this have? I'd also be concerned about losing the ability to solo mine.

Apparently there was some research being done on this, but the last update was from a couple years ago. Does this idea still hold water in 2025? Would like to gather some opinions.

Here's some other past research:

• Enforce p2pool in a protocol level
• P2pool a the answer for 51% attacks

Zen-5, Shimada Peak, Ryzen Threadripper 9000, AMD 9995WX 96 core

The ToS says you cannot mine without their prior written approval.

My question is, why not? If mining is:

• not on their free tier
• being paid at a premium by you

Why would they care? They're still making money aren't they?

Mining XMR with my own computers at home is basically trading my electricity company fiat for XMR. Mining on AWS is trading fiat to AWS for XMR in that same manner.

Yes, you'd be mining at a loss, but if I expect XMR to go to $100,000 someday, it is worth it to me, isn't it?

Hashrate of supportxmr.com went from 1.25 GH/s to 2.6 GH/s in just one week.

Welcome to hundreds of MH/s, enormously fluctuating

- https://xmr-stats.qubic.org/

Qubic's custom mining serves as a Proof-of-Concept (PoC), demonstrating the network's capacity to utilize the distributed computational power of its "Computors" for executing complex, real-time tasks. All messages for XMR mining are broadcasted via Qubic network. More info at: [github link] Big thank to jtgrassie for a simple and efficient pool software: https://github.com/jtgrassie/monero-pool

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From r/MoneroMining - Qubic has become the 5th largest miner a major step forward for decentralization.

Qubic has become the 5th largest miner a major step forward for decentralization. Qubic performs XMR mining only during idle system time, thereby supporting the decentralization of computational power and contributing to a more resilient and distributed infrastructure.

0tx blocks, tx-pool hunderets tx

No blocks with transactions for up to over eight minutes. But hundreds of transactions in the TX pool. Is this all because of the Tari bug?

• https://p2pool.io/explorer/block/bedd253e65819d23ef0f3a7b7c10e5c711807a80d8e3017881c9912dac17d17b
• https://p2pool.io/explorer/block/3eca9100216aee040140087cc1bfef980d2f9c5e37a01d3d0fa9fa25b18ebffa
• https://p2pool.io/explorer/block/c52b35fdbf831039e8e4b4d929c516b16aa67778c7f9c3f2c242b36126866cdd
• https://p2pool.io/explorer/block/831183129bd5ab64043844ceca881bbed984efb8e81cb5311cc05c9d425ad091

Monero Mining 101 - Monero Set-Up With P2Pool

Rabid Mining

First someone tested the HashVault SOLO pool at 200MH/s for 8 hours. Then the Hash Rate of the normal pool increased by approx. 600MH/s to 1.56 GH/s. Congratulations! Certainly well deserved.

p2pool.io did 13.7% of last 1000 Blocks according to miningpoolstats and HashVault 18.9%.

1st Block 3412044

Monero p2pool nano

Today the “mini” p2pool had the same hashrate than the normal p2pool 451 MH/s

As the hashrates currently fluctuate by around 100 MH/s daily, the mini chain should have a higher hashrate tomorrow than the normal p2pool chain.

The fact that the mini side chain has a higher hashrate than the p2pool main chain is likely to cause confusion for some time among older miners.

on the same topic:

XMR p2pool-mini meets XTM Tari: https://monero.town/post/5985571

p2pool.io 500 Internal Server Error

Block Link 3409127 on https://p2pool.io/mini/#blocks leads to

https://p2pool.io/explorer/block/eb57b09ea871775a4467aa73b85a9b8e4c8c3fb7bb2643b60a56307acae2d8d7

⚠️ supportxmr.com down ⚠️ that's serious

also on miningpoolstats 😱

p2pool mini has been invaded by a big miner resulting in most small miners being kicked out of the PPLNS window. Thus the nano sidechain has been created to help the situation.

No worries about this one being flooded because most will not be able to figure out how to join 😅

Edit: the nano sidechain is doing well

Side chain ID             = abf8ce94************************************************25bd0559
Side chain height         = 4331
Side chain hashrate       = 793.292 KH/s
PPLNS window              = 2160 blocks (+22 uncles, 0 orphans)
PPLNS window duration     = 19h 17m 4s
Peer list size = 30

cross-posted from: https://monero.town/post/5985351

XMR p2pool-mini meets XTM Tari

• 20 MH/s - May 5th, 2025
• 77 MH/s - May 6th, 2025

https://tari.com/

https://p2pool.io/mini/#pool

cross-posted from: https://monero.town/post/5453000

Gupaxx Development

You will see me in direct coding on Gupaxx

We can see your messages and tips with xmrchat (https://xmrchat.com/gupaxx) !

It will fund the development of Gupaxx.

cross-posted from: https://monero.town/post/5199171

The Monero Research Lab (MRL) has decided to recommend that all Monero node operators enable a ban list

https://github.com/Boog900/monero-ban-list/blob/main/ban_list.txt

• Download the ban list and:

./monerod --ban-list

🧐 https://gist.github.com/Rucknium/76edd249c363b9ecf2517db4fab42e88

Did someone say 0% mining fees?

Actually no fees for pool mining, how do you do that?

This is about the official, decentralized Monero mining pool.

The rewards are automatically sent directly to your mining wallet address even for small pool payouts.

Who still uses the old pools from third-party providers, which also charge fees and have relatively high payout limits?

Sometimes I think we just have to mention it twice a day to get it heard. 0% fees, official Monero pool.

Honestly, 0%? Yes, 0%.

• https://xmrvsbeast.com/p2pool/monero_nodes.html
• https://p2pool.io/#faq
• https://p2pool.observer/

How it Works - https://xmrvsbeast.com/

The raffle gives away free bonus hashrate, the more of your own hashrate you contribute the more of the bonus hashrate you earn. The goal of the raffle is to bring more hashrate to p2pool.

Use the rewards calculator to see what you could earn.

https://xmrvsbeast.com/p2pool/estimated_reward.html

A miner contributing 10kH/s goes into the VIP Donor round and can earn around 1.64 XMR/year

The more hashrate in a round the greater the odds of the round being selected, so fire up all your rigs and let's play!

Read the rules @ https://xmrvsbeast.com/p2pool/rules.html

Join us today :)

P2Pool fork October 12th, 2024

Technically speaking, the new software has been running for some time - but the hashrate of P2pool is still around 7% of the Monero network. So everything seems to be running as expected. Any feedback, is the new version more demanding for the servers @XMRvsBeast? Did everything go smoothly as expected?

I assume the next revuo issue will cover it.

• https://p2pool.observer/
• https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool

cross-posted from: https://monero.town/post/4625590

https://github.com/Cyrix126/gupaxx/releases/tag/v1.5.1

Gupaxx v1.5.1 important fixes

- Freeze after some time
- Xmrig could not be started after Xmrig-Proxy manually (Linux/MacOS)
- Node and Proxy custom args were not parsed correctly
- Node and Proxy custom args were applied if not empty in simple mode
- Unable to save node selection in Proxy Tab
- P2Pool status could not get green if verbosity level was below 3
- Crashes on Wayland