"Is it better to be clubby with no users" or "be with a botnet and a lot of new users"
I'm sure there's in between the continuum. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
I think thats the vote to lower ABN.
I just want reiterate, there is no other known way to distribute rewards, other than UTXO or CPID. Blockhash schemes wont work; if you have one you believe would work feel free to re-post the entire idea.
One point I would make is that lowering the ABN by itself does not solve our issue unless ABN is 0.. The configuration file and setup of workers is confusing to people. Just look at slovakia's issue today. We need to ensure that there is CLEAR documentation setup out there on the 2 worker ID values and how to set up those workers on the pool page and how to put them in the configuration file. I for one believe that there should be another download out on the wallet page which has both a sample configuration file and a readme/PDF on how to setup workers. If people do not understand the setup and configured their worker improperly they will not be able to take advantage of pool funded mining.
Yeah, we could use a dedicated single page PDF for ABN-Funded (turnkey) mining, and maybe a separate simple single page PDF for Non-funded (standard ABN) mining.
Thats where the help of the community should come in.
I'm working on the technical issues; if we could have these guides re-written we will have them added to the OP post, the pool and the website.
Remember we do have a Getting Started with Evo guide (and your probably aware of that) and its a little complicated. Togo recently added a couple more guide links to the OP post (for mining also). But they may be the same Evo links.
Well... This is going to sound funny but I have never even known of these guides that were out there and have been part of the community for close to 4 months. I really just picked up on various components and configurations through reading this forum and asking questions. That might intimidate some. Where are these guides, could you post a link.. I have fought through a lot of this stuff and might be able to put together a simple guide or help others with my knowledge. Please share the links and will see what is there.