RollProxy is a mining proxy for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that support the getwork protocol. It can take advantage of the X-Roll-NTime extension to minimize the number of getwork requests sent to the work provider. By keeping more requests local, it minimizes latency, while drastically reducing the load on mining pools.

• Full support for persistent HTTP connections
• Long polling support
• Mining statistics available via web interface
• Basic failover mechanism
• Ability to connect through an additional proxy server

• Python 2.6+ or 3+
• argparse (part of the standard library as of Python 2.7 and 3.2)
• urrlib3 <https://github.com/shazow/urllib3>

First make sure argparse and urllib3 are installed:

# pip install argparse urllib3

If (and only if) you are going to use Python 3 or later, issue:

$ 2to3 -w rollproxy.py

Start the proxy specifying the address and credentials for one or more mining servers:

$ python rollproxy.py http://username:password@host:port/

The proxy will listen on port 8345 by default. A web interface is also made available on the same port. For a detailed list of supported options, run:

$ python rollproxy.py --help

Miners connecting to the proxy do not need to authenticate, but if they supply a username RollProxy will then be able to generate per-worker statistics.

Copyright 2012 pooler <[email protected]>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.