Would it make sense to have a payment system in which the user who solves a block for the pool, gets an additional reward, i.e. 0.5 BTC or even 1 BTC?
This way there would be extra incentive to join, being given a shot at hitting a small jackpot without having to to mine solo against astronomical odds, while not taking away too much from the pool in relative terms?
I don't know if this has been discussed or done before, or even is being done... I think it could do well for the dynamic of a pool.
There was a pool exactly like this, called triplemining
It ceased operating 2 or 3 years back
I loved the pool and did well from it, sadly it became
to small and insignificant, but it died brightly, we found
2 blocks in quick succession at the end, a couple of s3's
earnt me nearly 2btc for that last week, those were the
days