@TheStuhlman

I've had some time today to read along the thread again after loosing track a while back and I've noticed the dilemma UTC is having in regards to Nitro. I'm not sure if the following idea has passed by already but I just wanted to post them in case they could be useful.

The impression I got is that there are a lot of miners out there with Nitro as primary and an alternate fallback. What would happen if you would force everybody to manually update their configurations, that would at least force a rather large portion of miners to reconfigure their setups, if (sorry that I need to make the assumption) we could convince miners to make their fallback pool the primary one we might end up with a more evenly distributed hashrate.

Ways to force everybody to change /update their config could be running the pool on a (slightly) different DNS name, different IP (if people have hardcoded it to avoid DNS problems) or reset/flush the passwords on the workers themselves.