Around the internet, I see considerable interest in mining through a VPN to protect one's privacy. For example, it's reasonable that you may not want unencrypted mining traffic to be observable by your ISP or others outside your home network. But there are some common concerns:
- Increased latency between miner and pool
- Increased costs/complexity of running your own VPN
- Unsure of the correct way to implement a VPN solution to guarantee security
If a mining pool had a low-latency VPN attached to the same network as the stratum server and full node, what is the level of interest in mining with a pool that supported this?