Okay it's easy to start a pool. But will it pay for itself? What if the going transaction fee requires a $50,000,000 investment to break even? I think if Bitcoin doesn't crash and burn before 2140, the players might well be the size of Google or Yahoo. There's a site now in Iceland shooting for 20% of the hashrate.

Am I going to get any useful suggestions? Goodness. I'll have to moderate if it doesn't improve. What I'm looking for is ideas on the "ideal" network size, how to determine whether that level has been breached, less important is what the curve should look like. Also what to do with the unrecovered fees which I assumed could just go back to the transaction creator.

Ideas, guys?