Re: [~2250 GH/sec] BTC Guild - 0% Fees, LP, SSL, API, 8 Decimal Payouts and more!
The DDOS part is easy to avoid. Have two or three (or more) proxies.
I dont see how you would get an increase in 14% earnings. Imagine a proxy of three pools. The proxy emits a new block mesage and you properly guess its coming from that proxy. Now you move your miners proportionally (the way you preffer) to the three pools connected to that proxy. You might be gaining by connecting to the pool that just found a new block, but how do you know that the other two pools are not in a bad strike and you are hashing low profitable shares? It might increase a bit your earnings, but not close to 14%.
But even that can be avoided. The pools could have several proxies and rotate among them randomly. That would stop also the DDOS attacks (or make them more difficult). Now the groups are not defined but change randomly. How could you attack such system?
Costumers are free to complain to the business owners about the service and go away if their complaints are not met. If the clients keep returning to the business it means they dont care that much about it. If the owners feel it would improve the service they can decide to change the way their business operate to accomodate some of the complaints of the costumers. If other costumers dont like the changes they can complain and/or go away as well. I dont see the big deal.
Such a proxy as you suggest would add 1 additional hop and need to relay ALL bitcoin related traffic for several pools... Yes, it would be a more interesting challenge to hop these pools then individually, but in the end you could just split your hash rate between all pools if it is just 2-3 pools behind this proxy. 14% increased earnings are still better then nothing, right? 
I dont see how you would get an increase in 14% earnings. Imagine a proxy of three pools. The proxy emits a new block mesage and you properly guess its coming from that proxy. Now you move your miners proportionally (the way you preffer) to the three pools connected to that proxy. You might be gaining by connecting to the pool that just found a new block, but how do you know that the other two pools are not in a bad strike and you are hashing low profitable shares? It might increase a bit your earnings, but not close to 14%.
But even that can be avoided. The pools could have several proxies and rotate among them randomly. That would stop also the DDOS attacks (or make them more difficult). Now the groups are not defined but change randomly. How could you attack such system?
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By the way, I like to get my burgers at that time of the day when they have special deals and offer them cheaper... and some people like to bitch that the normal price is higher and they always buy it at these prices!
Right now they swipe your credit card and tell you an hour later how much it did cost.
Right now they swipe your credit card and tell you an hour later how much it did cost.
Costumers are free to complain to the business owners about the service and go away if their complaints are not met. If the clients keep returning to the business it means they dont care that much about it. If the owners feel it would improve the service they can decide to change the way their business operate to accomodate some of the complaints of the costumers. If other costumers dont like the changes they can complain and/or go away as well. I dont see the big deal.