Does anyone know if there are plans for a p2pool WITHOUT bip16 support come april 1st? Would p2pool be robust enough to work in a mixed client scenario?
It seems to me like there could be quite a few miners who like the idea and lower variance of p2pool but would also like some say in which changes get accepted into the bitcoin protocol.
The support is based on the client that each p2pool user is running, and whoever solves the block is the one that gets the "vote" That being said however, voting is pretty much over and P2SH is going ahead anyway, so if you don't support it you risk your blocks becoming orphan, and you not getting any payout at all. That would include all p2pool miners' payouts from a non supported bitcoind, since it is split.