P2Pool Decentralized Miners

About this source

P2Pool is structurally different from conventional pools: each P2Pool block distributes the block reward across many participating miners in a single coinbase transaction (typically 10-50 outputs vs the conventional 1-2). The addresses surfaced here are individual P2Pool miners, not the pool itself. P2Pool ran actively from ~2011 to ~2019; mining activity is mostly historical and the address corpus is bounded by that era's participant base.

How we got the data

Signal 1: tools/scan_coinbase_attributions.py walks every block via bitcoind RPC; the loader filters to p2pool-marked rows and yields the coinbase output addresses. Signal 2: data/labels/p2pool_logs/addresses.csv (recovered from the original p2pool.org DigitalOcean droplet's public_html/logs/, file timestamps Jan-Sep 2018). Loader cross-references both and assigns confidence per the ladder. DELETE+INSERT on every refresh.

Why this confidence

Two complementary signals merged. (1) Coinbase scan: every block whose coinbase scriptSig carries a P2Pool marker variant or whose coinbase outputs include a known forestv-style P2Pool donation address; the other outputs are miners. (2) Aggregator-log scrape: addresses extracted from the original p2pool.org coordination-node log archive. Confidence ladder: 1.00 when both signals agree, 0.95 coinbase-only, 0.85 logs-only with >=100 occurrences, 0.70 logs-only with <100 occurrences.

License & attribution

Derived from public on-chain data plus an operator-recovered log archive from the p2pool.org DigitalOcean droplet (which the operator now stewards under the same domain). P2Pool itself is GPL-licensed software.

Sample addresses

Up to 100 representative rows from this source, picked live from labels.db. Addresses appearing in the current rich-list snapshot are surfaced first, sorted by balance. Click any address to see its full /address aggregator entry.