P2Pool v4.6 adds support for Tari merge mining donations

SChernykh¹ has released P2Pool² version 4.6³ with support for Tari⁴ merge mining donations⁵, various improvements and bugfixes:

[..] if you’re mining on P2Pool and update to v4.6 or a newer version, and you’re not merge mining Tari already, your node will be receiving merge mining tasks that will go to my Tari donation wallet [..] To opt out of this, build P2Pool with -DWITH_MERGE_MINING_DONATION=OFF in cmake command line.

Changes overview

New Features:
* Merge mining donation support
* Stratum local API: added wallet address
* P2PServer: show protocol version in peer list
Bugfixes:
* Fixed main thread name for debuggers and commands
* Tari: smaller reconnect timeouts
* Tari: more efficient polling
* Fixed a possible crash on shutdown
* Fixed many possible crashes throughout the code

The full list of changes since v4.5 is available on Github⁶.

Before using the software, you should verify the SHA256 sums with SChernykh’s GPG key⁷.

The README⁸ has valuable information about features, defaults, how pool shares work, build instructions and a short mining guide. If you need assistance, read the FAQ⁹ and join the project’s IRC channels¹⁰.

Note that it is strongly recommended to synchronize your system clock before you start mining.

This is an ongoing story and the report will be updated when new information is available.