Hi Stoneboy,

I think it might help your situation in gaining the trust of potential miners if you made full disclosure of your real name and address/telephone number as well perhaps provide a few references which can be verified by a third party (e.g: bank reference, lawyer, etc...). I get it that most here in this community like to remain anonymous but as a person who claims to wish to be a pool operator I think you need to accept the fact that you must trade some of that anonymity for full-disclosure to give comfort to potential "investors" in your enterprise that you will not run away when the first block hits. Escrowing 25 BTC with a trusted member here would also be a good idea to further cement faith but after reading your thread here it sounds like this might be financially not possible for you.

Like you I am also new to this forum but I can see after reading a number of threads that there have been a number of scams pulled on members here which understandably makes potential miners for your site quite cautious. The recent difficulties you have had in getting the site started as well the fact that you yourself are not mining your own site makes things even more suspicious!

I am curious also, I believe the Netherlands has similar website disclosure laws as are found in Germany...are you not legally required to disclose  your name, address and contact information when using a .nl extension on a site that is hosted in the Netherlands?

Best of luck.

Andy