monero-pool

A Monero mining pool server written in C.

Design decisions are focused on performance, hence the use of libevent and LMDB. Currently this is single threaded (which is fine because of libevent) but work is planned to offload some of the tasks to a thread pool to allow even faster operation.

The single payout mechanism is PPLNS, which favors loyal pool miners.

I have no plans to add any other payout mechanisms or other coins. Work should ideally stay focussed on performance and stability.

Project status

Definitely "alpha". I have tested quite a bit on the Monero testnet (if you plan to do the same, ensure to use --testnet flag when starting your wallet and daemon) and there is certainly room for improvement. Please see the TODO file for the current list of things that could do with looking at.

There is a reference pool setup at http://monerop.com so it can be load tested further.

If you want to help with testing or help setting up your own pool, give me a shout on IRC: jtgrassie on Freenode.

Compiling from source

Dependencies

• liblmdb
• libevent
• json-c
• boost
• openssl
• libmicrohttpd
• uuid

As an example, on Ubuntu, the dependencies can be installed with the following command:

sudo apt-get install libjson-c-dev uuid-dev libevent-dev libmicrohttpd-dev \
  liblmdb-dev libboost-all-dev openssl

Another obvious dependency is to have a running Monero daemon (monerod) and a running wallet RPC (monero-wallet-rpc) for the pool wallet. It is highly recommended to run these on the same host as the pool server to avoid network latency.

Compile

First install all the dependencies.

Then to compile the pool as a release build, run:

make release

The application will be built in build/release/.

Optionally you can compile a debug build by simply running:

make

Debug builds are output in build/debug/.

Configuration

Copy and edit the pool.conf file to either the same directory as the compiled binary monero-pool, or place it in your home directory or launch monero-pool with the flag --config-file path/to/pool.conf to use a custom location. The options are self explanatory.

Running

Ensure you have your daemon and wallet RPC up and running with the correct host and port settings in the pool config file.

Then simply cd build/debug|release and run ./monero-pool.

Supporting the project

This mining pool has no built-in developer donation (like other mining pool software has), so if you use it and want to donate, XMR donations to:

451ytzQg1vUVkuAW73VsQ72G96FUjASi4WNQse3v8ALfjiR5vLzGQ2hMUdYhG38Fi15eJ5FJ1ZL4EV1SFVi228muGX4f3SV

would be very much appreciated.

License

Please see the LICENSE file.