PI2POOL About
pi2pool is a community powered p2pool node where everyone mines into a central p2pool node which alternates between the Monero wallet addresses of the active miners.
This means there is no need to setup your own p2pool and monero nodes, open up any ports on your firewall or network, and for all intent purposes is like mining to a regular pool.
As the name suggests, pi2pool is aimed at Raspberry Pi owners (or other single board computers and low hash rate devices such as Android TV-boxes, mobile phones and old PC hardware). Where by normally mining at 100 hashes per second would take you (if you are lucky) around 4 months to find a share on p2pool, pi2pool collates all of the hash rate sent to the pool proxy and directs it at a single p2pool node, vastly increasing the chances of finding a share.
There are two mining modes:
- Boost HR mode - where all of the hash rate is directed to a p2pool node for the selected wallet address for 30 minutes, or until a share is found (whichever is sooner).
- Lottery Boost mode - where all of the hash rate is directed to a p2pool node for the selected wallet address for 30 minutes, regardless of how many shares are found.
pi2pool will alternate between these two modes to ensure a fair selection.