I'm presuming that as their new p2pool code is open source, it will be configurable in the same way it is now, so anyone can still have their own node?.....Maybe their hosted miners can also be configured this way too, so that it can be pointed at any node the user wishes? Just speculating, of course......
That would be nice but the latency would be bad if my miners were in China and my p2pool / ANTPOOL in New Zealand. Can't see how that would work.
They must have something planned to back up their claim "the whole Bitcoin community will never be anxious about the potential risks of the decentralization risk associated with the pool mining model now."
I feel the time frame is a bit tight to buy into Round 1, on the 2nd without knowing a bit more about how this will work.
Unless ANTPOOL allows us to continue running our p2pool nodes with local miners and we somehow can "top up" by buying GHs on the farm. Our hosted miners add to our shares irrespective of geo location.
But then we are just into a vicious spiral of continually spending our hard mined BTCs on more miners to make more BTCs to spend on more miners...
I'm starting to feel like a BTC mining junkie, never able to quite get ahead enough to get out of the game.