It is obvious that there is no system that is perfect that is why we will be constantly monitoring all pools and look for any abnormal behavior.
Pool statistics is public, I don't understand how could anyone introduce these "phantom" miners without being noticed.
I've received some not so pleasant PMs saying that not allowing solomining and rented rigs is bad and is scam - I think we all now what is happening with coins mined by big farms and rented rigs and this is exactly the reason why we want to exclude these miners from our coin. At the end of the day it is the small miner that is being hurt and Minerals is trying to avoid this.
I like your coin. I am a small time hobbyist miner, with no more than 40 MH/s (x11) in my operation. Most coins that are released nowadays are usually instantly mined by large mining farms and then immediately dumped as soon as the coin hits an exchange. This dumping stunts the growth of any new coin and kills off any potential it may have. Hopefully your design to limit hashrate per miner/worker will be effective. Good luck on your launch, I will be mining some minerals
SCV good to go, sir!