Good post jjjordan.  Coins101, stonehedge, and crysx, you guys bring up good points and I like this discussion but I want to share my thoughts. 

The thing that attracted me to this coin was the no pools characteristic.  As much as I don't want to admit it, crysx is right, that is gone now.  I think the ANN page needs to reflect that this coin is pool resistant and list ocminer's pool.  I don't think that's a big deal, it really doesn't change the direction this coin has now taken.  A pool exists, therefore it is not "No Pools" as it states.  The price isn't going to move and we aren't going to lose any contributor because we change that.  Being pool resistant is a good thing, it seems like it's a pain to setup. 

Crysx, at this point in time there is nothing wrong with spreadx11 mining (even if it's inefficient, it's the same for everybody).  It's rather a problem you are having.  Just as Just2laff said anybody with any size farm can mine this coin.  It's the way you guys are implementing the miner is the problem.  Your machines are capable of mining spr just fine.

But notice I said "at this point in time".  I think crysx is right about making a change at some point.  With spreadx11 being pool resistant most people will solo mine.  When (and if) service nodes are implemented and the price rises, spr will attract attention but the only people that will be able to mine will be the farms, like crysx's.  The casual miner or one that has 1-5 cards will not be able to grab any blocks.  They will need to join a pool to get in on the action.  If we don't change anything we risk all the blocks ending up in the hands of large farms, not decentralized at all. 

Switching to x11 is one way to get this done as crysx suggested (or someone did).  I don't think there is a rush to do this.  If we switch to x11 now, we risk spr being added to autoconverting multipools and getting lost in that mess of ordinary coins when service nodes are not implemented yet.  If this is the way we go I say we wait until after service nodes are implemented.  It's kind of analogous to btc mining moving from cpu->gpu->fpga->asic to help secure the bigger and bigger network.  As we grow, our network of miners can grow by switching to an algo that is friendly to pool mining.  That being said I'd like us to figure out some kind of mechanism to prevent spr being added to autoconverting multipools.  (Ironically I use those pools sometimes but I don't think they are good for a coin's health) 

After rereading this maybe spreadx11 is still the way to go as long as it's autoconverting multipool resistant.  Ocminer just needs to show how he accomplished this so other pools open up.  He may have already, I don't know. And now we can change the Title and ANN page to read 'Zero Multipools'   I like that.

Crysx, I don't how you can write so much all the time, my brain is mush now....