Pools are necessary for a mineable coin. Now mining AE is only the whales' dinner.
Pools are coming. F2Pool is one of them.
We don't need chinese f2pool, we will better use p2pool instead.
We tried to level the playing field for miners.
By not releasing a widely-usable howto and pool software?
We announced a bounty of 20,000 CHF for an open-source pool, but no one participated.
Now the non-open source pools, which have a large economic incentive to organize those, are entering the game.
Best,
Vlad
You as an AE team member and all AE devs are directly interested in ensuring fair mining in the network of their project. But not in that mining was concentrated in two or three private pools.
Although it can be assumed that if the project is not entirely honest from the very beginning, then the developers may not have a goal to provide honest mining. If this is your case - I cannot participate in such a project as a miner and do not advise anyone.