Is P2Pool vulnerable to pool hopping?

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Some pools / payout mechanisms are vulnerable to pool hopping.

Is P2Pool vulnerable?

ripper234

Posted 2012-01-16T21:32:25.623

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Answers

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From the Wiki on P2Pool:

Each share contains a generation transaction that pays out to the previous n shares, where n is the number of shares whose total work is equal to 3 times the average work required to solve a block, or 17280, whichever is smaller. Payouts are weighted based on the amount of work each share took to solve - proportional to the p2pool difficulty at that time.

So it works like a PPLNS pool, which is not vulnerable to pool hopping.

ThePiachu

Posted 2012-01-16T21:32:25.623

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