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The pool may be getting too big for its own good. H2O really needs to split and point to different coins soon.

Without reading all 100+ page, any chance you could tell me in short why the pool becoming bigger is a bad thing?

More miners means more hashrate meaning:
-more coin swapping as difficulty adjustments hit harder
-hurts dedicated miners of the coin when we leave them with high difficulty
-more miners here likely means more everywhere, meaning lower profits across the board

If we split the miners across two or more coins this could mean greater stability in the difficulty of individual coins, and possibly better long term profits. We would have to have some kind of method of determining who gets to mine the best coins, and who mines the subpar coins though. Maybe round-robin style of approach, or maybe just based on raw hashrate (aka you earn h20 more fees so you get the best work to hash)

If he left people off the best coins then people would leave this pool in droves and go to the pools that don't intentionally screw part of the pool, or just mine the best coin themselves. Why would anyone think this is an ok idea? If a coin is the best value its the best value, just milk it. I don't think cutting the hash in half would make that much improvement, it would just lower profits all around.

Well really it could already be happening. We have no idea what we're mining at anytime. I agree that it's hard to say if cutting the hash would actually help or not; but focusing a hashpower laser on any one coin doesn't seem to be the best idea either. We might run into issues where we mine so much that the market can't even sustain our trade at the prices that we were originally mining at.

if you check the difficulty of the coin that we're working on and look at the current difficulties of various coins it usually isn't too hard to figure out which one we're mining.