I am always curious about new things.
I would like to ask specifically:
How you plan to counter hopping?
I quote a statement from a respected community member:
2) Prop - but then all the long term miners get paid less for their shares than the smart hoppers, so no one in their right mind would mine at a Prop pool.
Full thread here so you may see entire context:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=893133.msg11113709#msg11113709Hopping yes this can be an issue, what I am coding the front end to do along with the forked stratum-mining thanks to Slush0 is have a banning system, if it sees certain addresses stopping and starting, or a miner only coming in and certain intervals it will ban them for a set time.
Of course, I am open to suggestions of what the pool would be better using than prop.
I am simply curious and not knocking anyone's system. I like to learn, understand, and be informed. Once I have multiple personal experiences and / or people I trust explaining things I begin to form a solid opinion, but I enjoy the learning aspect so thanks for being forward with your intents and open to changes.
Can you share how you would handle the bannings, if it would affect mining renters, for example westhash / nicehash folks who are at your pool until a specific price and then they rent their gear for however long that price or more holds?
Are you setting up a copy of Slush's pool or simply utilizing some of the code?
If you can be specific I would enjoy understanding how the timing works, do you ban after twenty minutes or 24 hours of activity, etc?