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High performance Stratum poolserver in Node.js

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node-stratum

High performance Stratum poolserver in Node.js. One instance of this software can startup and manage multiple coin pools, each with their own daemon and stratum port :)

This project does not handle share rewards (payment processing). A fully functioning portal is currently under development which will handle payments, website front-end, database layer, mutli-coin/pool support, auto-switching miners between coins/pools, etc.. The portal also has an MPOS compatibility mode so that the it can function as a drop-in-replacement for python-stratum-mining.

Build Status

NPM

Why

This server was built to be more efficient and easier to setup, maintain and scale than existing stratum poolservers which are written in python. Compared to the spaghetti state of the latest stratum-mining python server, this software should also have a lower barrier to entry for other developers to fork and add features or fix bugs.

Features

  • Daemon RPC interface
  • Stratum TCP socket server
  • Block template / job manager
  • Optimized generation transaction building
  • Connecting to multiple daemons for redundancy
  • Process share submissions
  • Session managing for purging DDoS/flood initiated zombie workers
  • Auto ban IPs that are flooding with invalid shares
  • POW (proof-of-work) & POS (proof-of-stake) support
  • Transaction messages support
  • Vardiff (variable difficulty / share limiter)
  • Supports the hashing algorithms:
    • SHA256 (Bitcoin, Freicoin, Peercoin/PPCoin, Terracoin, etc..)
    • Scrypt (Litecoin, Dogecoin, Feathercoin, etc..)
    • Scrypt-Jane (YaCoin, CopperBars, Pennies, Tickets, etc..)
    • Quark (Quarkcoin [QRK])
    • X11 (Darkcoin [DRK])

Under development

  • Skein (Skeincoin) algorithm
  • Keccak (Maxcoin) algorithm
  • P2P functionality for highly efficient block updates from daemon as a peer node

To do

  • Statistics module

Requirements

  • node v0.10+
  • coin daemon (preferably one with a relatively updated API and not some crapcoin :p)

Example Usage

Install as a node module by cloning repository

git clone https://github.com/zone117x/node-stratum node_modules/stratum-pool
npm update

Module usage

Create and start new pool with configuration options and authentication function

var Stratum = require('stratum-pool');

var pool = Stratum.createPool({

    coin: {
        name: "Dogecoin",
        symbol: "doge",
        algorithm: "scrypt", //or "sha256", "scrypt-jane", "quark", "x11"
        reward: "POW", //or "POS"
        txMessages: false //or true
    },

    "address": "mi4iBXbBsydtcc5yFmsff2zCFVX4XG7qJc", //Address to where block rewards are given
    "blockRefreshInterval": 1000, //How often to poll RPC daemons for new blocks, in milliseconds
    //instanceId: 37, //Recommend not using this because a crypto-random one will be generated

    /* Some attackers will create thousands of workers that use up all available socket connections,
       usually the workers are zombies and don't submit shares after connecting. This features
       detects those and disconnects them. */
    "connectionTimeout": 600, //Remove workers that haven't been in contact for this many seconds

    /* If a worker is submitting a good deal of invalid shares we can temporarily ban them to
       reduce system/network load. Also useful to fight against flooding attacks. */
    "banning": {
        "enabled": true,
        "time": 600, //How many seconds to ban worker for
        "invalidPercent": 50, //What percent of invalid shares triggers ban
        "checkThreshold": 500, //Check invalid percent when this many shares have been submitted
        "purgeInterval": 300 //Every this many seconds clear out the list of old bans
    },

    /* Each pool can have as many ports for your miners to connect to as you wish. Each port can
       be configured to use its own pool difficulty and variable difficulty settings. varDiff is
       optional and will only be used for the ports you configure it for. */
    "ports": {
        "3032": { //A port for your miners to connect to
            "diff": 32, //the pool difficulty for this port

            /* Variable difficulty is a feature that will automatically adjust difficulty for
               individual miners based on their hashrate in order to lower networking overhead */
            "varDiff": {
                "minDiff": 8, //Minimum difficulty
                "maxDiff": 512, //Network difficulty will be used if it is lower than this
                "targetTime": 15, //Try to get 1 share per this many seconds
                "retargetTime": 90, //Check to see if we should retarget every this many seconds
                "variancePercent": 30 //Allow time to very this % from target without retargeting
            }
        },
        "3256": { //Another port for your miners to connect to, this port does not use varDiff
            "diff": 256 //The pool difficulty
        }
    },


    /* Recommended to have at least two daemon instances running in case one drops out-of-sync
       or offline. For redundancy, all instances will be polled for block/transaction updates
       and be used for submitting blocks. */
    "daemons": [
        {   //Main daemon instance
            "host": "localhost",
            "port": 19332,
            "user": "litecoinrpc",
            "password": "testnet"
        },
        {   //Backup daemon instance
            "host": "localhost",
            "port": 19344,
            "user": "litecoinrpc",
            "password": "testnet"
        }
    ],


    /* This allows the pool to connect to the daemon as a node peer to recieve block updates.
       It may be the most efficient way to get block updates (faster than polling, less
       intensive than blocknotify script). However its still under development (not yet working). */
    "p2p": {
        "enabled": false,
        "host": "localhost",
        "port": 19333,

        /* Magic value is different for main/testnet and for each coin. It is found in the daemon
           source code as the pchMessageStart variable.
           For example, litecoin mainnet magic: http://git.io/Bi8YFw
           And for litecoin testnet magic: http://git.io/NXBYJA
         */
        "magic": "fcc1b7dc",

        //Found in src as the PROTOCOL_VERSION variable, for example: http://git.io/KjuCrw
        "protocolVersion": 70002,
    }

}, function(ip, workerName, password, callback){ //stratum authorization function
    console.log("Authorize " + workerName + ":" + password + "@" + ip);
    callback({
        error: null,
        authorized: true,
        disconnect: false
    });
});

Listen to pool events

/*
'data' object contains:
    job: 4, //stratum work job ID
    ip: '71.33.19.37', //ip address of client
    worker: 'matt.worker1', //stratum worker name
    difficulty: 64, //stratum client difficulty
    height: 443795, //block height
    networkDifficulty: 3349 //network difficulty for this block
    //solution is set if block was found
    solution: '110c0447171ad819dd181216d5d80f41e9218e25d833a2789cb8ba289a52eee4',
    error: 'low share difficulty' //set if share is rejected for some reason
*/
pool.on('share', function(isValidShare, isValidBlock, data){

    if (isValidBlock)
        console.log('Block found');
    else if (isValidShare)
        console.log('Valid share submitted');
    else if (data.solution)
        console.log('We thought a block solution was found but it was rejected by the daemon');
    else
        console.log('Invalid share submitted')

    console.log('share data: ' + JSON.stringify(data));
});



/*
'severity': can be 'debug', 'warning', 'error'
'logKey':   can be 'system' or 'client' indicating if the error
            was caused by our system or a stratum client
*/
pool.on('log', function(severity, logKey, logText){
    console.log(severity + ': ' + '[' + logKey + '] ' + logText);
});

Start pool

pool.start();

Credits

  • vekexasia - co-developer & great tester
  • TheSeven - answering an absurd amount of my questions, found the block 1-16 problem, provided example code for peer node functionality
  • pronooob - knowledgeable & helpful
  • Slush0 - stratum protocol, documentation and original python code
  • viperaus - scrypt adaptions to python code
  • ahmedbodi - more algo adaptions to python code
  • steveshit - ported X11 hashing algo from python to node module

Donations

To support development of this project feel free to donate :)

BTC: 1KRotMnQpxu3sePQnsVLRy3EraRFYfJQFR

License

Released under the GNU General Public License v2

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

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High performance Stratum poolserver in Node.js

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