Re: [400GH/s] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool

* Stratum support in the P2Pool protocol. Stratum mining will be enabled in a future patch to v9.

I think this is great news, allowing p2pool to scale to any size in the future, taking a lot of load off the local p2pool software itself, allowing it to concentrate on the business of getting those blocks and transactions out ASAP. Sending higher difficulty targets to the miner will take it even further.

I agree. What I'm curious about is how it's there, but not enabled, and why?

I simply haven't written the code for a Stratum server yet. Getting support into the P2Pool protocol and everyone switched over so it will work once implemented was the priority.