We are in a precarious position. The only mining hardware currently available on the planet does not work properly/efficiently with p2pool - the
only truly decentralized pool. I have a few S7's & am thinking about buying a couple more, but it pi**es me off that in order to use them effectively I am forced to point them at a centralized pool instead of my preferred choice - p2pool.
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Spondoolies - rescue us please?

I am debating to not purchase more from Bitmain due to these issues with their miners and p2pool. Every single antminer I have had to modify in order to get expected performance on p2pool, despite Bitmain claiming native support! This should have been resolved a year ago.