Quote from: TuxNut on March 15, 2014, 08:12:58 PM

Quote from: trigeek on March 15, 2014, 07:21:57 PM

The bigger problem is that no other pools are even advertising in the thread here! They should be doing more to put themselves in front. It's tough when we not only have to handle the maintenance of our pool, but also add code to make it smaller? Sad

As for any risks of a fork, there's an exceedingly low chance of this happening. I think people are scared of what happened with DogeCoin, but that was specifically due to some bugs in the wallet code that made the fork survive. Half the pools/exchanges were on one wallet, and the other half were on another.

We'll continue to monitor things, and if we see anything dangerous happening then we'll shut off a couple of our stratum servers temporarily to bounce people to other pools. That's the easiest way, since writing our own worker banning algorithm would take a LOT of work.

I'd like to make additional point about this from my previous post.

I've felt that mining pools are an area where some regulation could be required if they're unwilling to regulate themselves.
We have to ensure that pools don't end up with more than 51% of the hashing power (even with PoW/PoS hybrids) if only because of the FUD surrounding such a thing.

If pools would like to avoid governmental regulation which would SUCK for everyone, then they have to find a way of regulating themselves. Having a mechanism available to automate the process of shutting things down/kicking miners when required would certainly help with this.
I'm not saying HashStrike have to do this now, that it's their responsibility to fix the Crypto world or anything, however, it would certainly be a good promotional tool to get themselves a consistently high share of the power for whatever coin's supported (even if only for a while until others implement it too).

Anyway, yea. Someone should work on a system, whoever it is!

this would need to be implemented in this https://github.com/Crypto-Expert/stratum-mining
i sent a request, they can implement much quicker then i could since they are familiar with their own code, altho i might give it a shot if nothing happens in a few days.