GHash is evil. IIRC, EMC doesn't pay transaction fees, and no merged. p2pool has horrendous variance. Pick your poison.

Remember this pool has been under constant DDOS assaults for over 2 weeks now.
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Getting very OT here but:
GHash is evil. <-- Why do you say that? It's a business, they are out to make money, is that evil?
Debatable. Pimping is out to make money too.

EMC doesn't pay transaction fees, and no merged <-- Does not pay fees and no merged, but as I said you do get paid when you click the button. Till I get my NMC which is now 30 days out Eligius is not merged either

. However, because of DGM when my entire network ate itself I still was earning with EMC while I fixed a BGP issue.
Point made.
p2pool has horrendous variance <-- True, but you know that going in. And you can run your own node. (I do)
A local node doesn't affect variance.

Still can't connect on cable and now the traceroute from my network is all kinds of funky getting to stratum.mining.eligius.st / 54.225.179.121 but since it's on AWS I don't think it's on their end. I am peered to Amazon through NYIIX so it might be that. Off to work to play with some routes.
Haven't lost connectivity here in a long time. Just webserver issues.
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