sha-p2pool

This is a decentralized pool mining software for Tari network using SHA-3 algorithm.

How it works

This is an implementation of Bitcoin's original p2pool with some modifications.

Sha P2Pool uses an in-memory side chain (it is called share chain) to keep track of the miners who contributed in mining (only the last 80 blocks are stored, so whoever get a share recently (mined a share chain block) will be included in payouts!).

All the payouts are instant and decentralized without any authority to control them.

Prerequisites

• Running Tor proxy (Instructions)
• Running and Synced Tari Base Node (Setup instructions (run minotari_node))
• A Tari wallet address (Setup instructions (run minotari_console_wallet))

How to use

• First let's assume that we have all the prerequisites are set up and running

• Create a new configuration for the miner in ~/.tari/<NETWORK_HERE>/miner.toml

  (where you should replace <NETWORK_HERE> with the current network the base node runs on, esmeralda is the default):

  [miner]
  base_node_grpc_address = "/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/18145"
  sha_p2pool_enabled = true

  Please note that 18145 is the port where base node's gRPC is running, so if it is different from the default one (18145) just use the right port.

• Start sha p2pool by running the binary simple $ ./sha_p2pool start or using Cargo (if installed and want to build from source): $ cargo build --release && ./target/release/sha_p2pool start

Note: For more information about usage of p2pool, just run $ sha_p2pool --help!