21 Jul 2025 [mining]

P2Pool introduces reproducible builds with v4.9 release

SChernykh1 has released P2Pool2 version 4.93 with support for reproducible builds4, various fixes and updates:

Reproducible builds help verify that the distributed binaries have not been tampered with. Anyone can independently build the software and confirm that their result matches the official release, ensuring no malicious code has been added.

Changes overview

* The release binaries are now reproducible
* 'status' console command now prints the overall node health
* 'version' console command and '--version' parameter now show versions of 3rd-party libraries used
* Updated internal dependencies

The full list of changes since v4.8.1 is available on Github5.

Before using the software, you should verify the SHA256 sums with SChernykh’s GPG key6.

The README7 has valuable information about features, defaults, how pool shares work, build instructions and a short mining guide. If you need assistance, read the FAQ8 and join the project’s IRC channels9.

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.

  1. https://github.com/SChernykh/ ↩

  2. https://p2pool.io/ ↩

  3. https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool/releases/tag/v4.9 ↩

  4. https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool/blob/v4.9/README.md#reproducible-builds ↩

  5. https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool/compare/v4.8.1…v4.9 ↩

  6. https://p2pool.io/SChernykh.asc, https://github.com/monero-project/gitian.sigs/blob/master/gitian-pubkeys/SChernykh.asc ↩

  7. https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool/blob/master/README.md ↩

  8. https://p2pool.io/#faq ↩

  9. #monero-pools, #p2pool-log, #p2pool-mini (IRC-Libera) ↩