I am always curious about new things.
I would like to ask specifically:
How you plan to counter hopping?
I quote a statement from a respected community member:
2) Prop - but then all the long term miners get paid less for their shares than the smart hoppers, so no one in their right mind would mine at a Prop pool.
Full thread here so you may see entire context:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=893133.msg11113709#msg11113709Hopping yes this can be an issue, what I am coding the front end to do along with the forked stratum-mining thanks to Slush0 is have a banning system, if it sees certain addresses stopping and starting, or a miner only coming in and certain intervals it will ban them for a set time.
Of course, I am open to suggestions of what the pool would be better using than prop.
I think Kano runs one of the best pools around. IF I was going to start a pool, I would model it after a proven system that works. Just my 2 satoshi.