I would like to see it the way that the node responsible can decide if he wants to include transactions in the blocks he finds for the p2pool. Even grater it would be if he could decide if he wants to include transactions with no fees or only those with fees or only those with fees > X.XXXXXXXX BTC.
The p2pool node just follows your bitcoind's transaction acceptance rules. Patch it and you'll change what transactions p2pool includes. P2Pool just requests a list of transactions to include from bitcoind; it has no knowledge of their individual fees.
I love the idea of this pool, but one thing that personally puts me off it is the 0.5% fee to forrestv.
It's negligible I know, and I understand that you probably want a piece of the "pool operator pie" with some other pools charging 2% and things like that. But wouldn't it be better to have an auto-donate feature instead? (as in, auto-donating 1% of your shares to a forrestv donation worker)
I know I'd personally prefer that over a fee, mainly because it's not forced upon people. And you'd probably generate more from this "opt-out auto-donate system" than you would with a 0.5% fee.
The project to me seems to symbolize freedom from the mining pool operators and this fee kinda spoils it for me.
Any thoughts on switching to this?
I like this idea, and the p2pool protocol can be changed relatively easily (recently we switched from a 5 second share period to a 10 second share period with
this change).
This could be done in two ways: Each user could set the proportion of their individually solved blocks to donate, or each user could set the proportion of their work to donate. They should be equivalent in the long run, so I'm mainly considering which is easier to implement.