<p>According to <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3u9uc3/how_much_data_traffic_does_participating_in/cxd6odh" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Greg Maxwell</a>:</p>
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<p>4.14kB/sec in, 10.7kb/s out; averaged over the last 30 days. 38GB in transfer total.</p>
<p>Significantly less than the full node that goes with it... p2pool used to be fairly large relative to the node; but greater amounts of load on the Bitcoin network have shifted the balance.</p>
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<p>In <a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/17356/323">an earlier question</a> we learned some rough numbers about how much data does regular pool mining use. However, I wonder how much data is typically used when one is mining in a <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool" rel="nofollow noreferrer">P2Pool</a>?</p>

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How much data traffic does participating in P2Pool mining cause?
ThePiachu
# How much data traffic does participating in P2Pool mining cause?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-11-25)

In [an earlier question](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/17356/323) we learned some rough numbers about how much data does regular pool mining use. However, I wonder how much data is typically used when one is mining in a [P2Pool](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool)?

**Tags:** p2pool, bandwidth


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### Answer by username_0 on 2015-11-26. Score: 4 | Accepted answer

According to [Greg Maxwell](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3u9uc3/how_much_data_traffic_does_participating_in/cxd6odh):

> 4.14kB/sec in, 10.7kb/s out; averaged over the last 30 days. 38GB in transfer total.
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> Significantly less than the full node that goes with it... p2pool used to be fairly large relative to the node; but greater amounts of load on the Bitcoin network have shifted the balance.


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