# Zcash P2Pool Mining Development

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-p2pool-mining-development/1051>\
**Category:** Zcash Apps\
**Created:** [July 27, 2016, 2:01am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-p2pool-mining-development/1051 "2016-07-27T02:01:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 6:31am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-p2pool-mining-development/1051/2 "2016-07-27T06:31:31Z")

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I’m not sure if this is relevant but I was looking at the Zcash github issues page and noticed this thread:

> <https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/1055>
>
> All of the blocks that \`zcashd -gen\` manages to mine for me, which happens every… few minutes, turn out to be stale:
> 
> \`\`\`
> 2016-06-25 12:31:14 CreateNewBlock(): total size 1000
> 2016-06-25 12:31:14 Running ZcashMiner with 1 transactions in block (274 bytes)
> 2016-06-25 12:31:34 UpdateTip: new best=57fb9e387420d8e936a19237b866dc24412f4c5d73c00cde1ac0d73d99de205e height=7674 log2\_work=17.093479 tx=7690 date=2016-06-25 13:25:42 progress=1.000000 cache=0.0MiB(3tx)
> 2016-06-25 12:32:45 UpdateTip: new best=24c9f7c5d58babc029b4d6824fb9f8694a12561938eb0c7386920e5973d6b9e7 height=7675 log2\_work=17.0935 tx=7691 date=2016-06-25 12:31:46 progress=1.000000 cache=0.0MiB(4tx)
> 2016-06-25 12:33:54 UpdateTip: new best=42498a8926f057a6e53ea3868b80643e102aded4e003e99e670b2cf09438d15b height=7676 log2\_work=17.093521 tx=7692 date=2016-06-25 12:32:51 progress=1.000000 cache=0.0MiB(5tx)
> 2016-06-25 12:34:03 ZcashMiner:
> 2016-06-25 12:34:03 proof-of-work found  
> hash: 50cefaa3ab8a2d0e3758870d6265ef3e3fbcca9f207ad7b1c47fcbbbf700e9ff  
> target: 75c28e0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 2016-06-25 12:34:03 CBlock(hash=50cefaa3ab8a2d0e3758870d6265ef3e3fbcca9f207ad7b1c47fcbbbf700e9ff, ver=4, hashPrevBlock=425655fe7074053901bb0e4d14873e4649a87cafb9bc7513ceab3fd94595e65e, hashMerkleRoot=d0e789d8896321951f94bb78ad912620607a848e6be5245a5f78feab28986cf1, hashReserved=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000, nTime=1466857874, nBits=2075c28e, nNonce=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001, vtx=1)
> CTransaction(hash=d0e789d889, ver=1, vin.size=1, vout.size=2, nLockTime=0)
> CTxIn(COutPoint(0000000000, 4294967295), coinbase 02fa1d0101)
> CTxOut(nValue=3.83700000, scriptPubKey=037c5fa12ad4b93feacc3f1ace9bc3)
> CTxOut(nValue=0.95925000, scriptPubKey=OP\_HASH160 6708e6670db0b950dac)
> 
> vMerkleTree: d0e789d8896321951f94bb78ad912620607a848e6be5245a5f78feab28986cf1
> 
> 2016-06-25 12:34:03 generated 3.837
> 2016-06-25 12:34:03 ERROR: ZcashMiner: generated block is stale
> \`\`\`
> 
> This might very well be user error or such, but while we're at this early stage of the project I hope it's OK to use GitHub issues for tracking of things like this. Please feel free to close this issue if it's in fact not with the code.

which linked to this:

> **[GitHub - str4d/zcash at standalone-miner](https://github.com/str4d/zcash/tree/standalone-miner)**
>
> standalone-miner

Also, perhaps those of us who are interested should post on our social media to put the word out among our contacts.

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