thanks man, really appreciate it. I should finish the coind part by this weekend I think (along with forking the process with the proper command line parameters).
after that, I will focus on testing every part of the server, using mocha and sinon (for mocks and stubs), and then try converting some python code for the stratum mine pool from slush to see how well it performs and add a benchmark to it as well. AFAIK, node is pretty good at handling connections, so I'm confident it will handle a large amount of data and connections per 'cluster'