36 lines
2.6 KiB
Smarty
36 lines
2.6 KiB
Smarty
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<h2>ThePool Collective</h2>
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<p>After mining in other pools I have decided to setup my own pool, mostly for educational reason. I was curious how pools work, what is needed to get them started and what tools can be used to run them.</p>
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<p>Lots of digging finally revealed that the following tools were required to run a Litecoin pool:</p>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin">Litecoin</a>
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<ol><li>Provides litecoind, used to synchronize blocks and offer the API the pool connects to</ol>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/ArtForz/pushpool/tree/tenebrix">Pushpool 0.5.1-tenebrix</a>, a modified version of Pushpool supporting changed target difficulties (2^22 in this pool)</li>
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<ol><li>Provides the API each worker (client miner) authenticates and connects to</ol>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/Greedi/mmcFE">mmcFE</a> modified by Greedi & g2x3k with adjustments for this pool (proper hashrate for 2^22 difficulty)</li>
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<ol><li>The Webinterface merging SQL and API information into a cohesive interface for user and worker management</ol>
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The hardest part was finding all the information needed and applying it to a new setup.
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Many tools exist and even those three took a while to get them to work.
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Especially the difficulty adjustment would not have been possible (for me) if it wasn't
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for the pushpool tenebrix branch allowing a custom target bit and reducing difficulty per share.
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More adjustments in the PHP code were necessary to reflect those changes and, at least
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close enough, properly display hashrates on the pool site. It is running well right now but
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please keen in mind that <b>neither the code nor functionaliy are supported</b>.
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I am not responsible for lost coins due to a pool crash or other malfunctions which
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could be caused by by code or the tools used in this implementation.
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