Have you thought of operating on P2Pool to support bitcoin blockchain diversity and also paying out merged-mining rewards. I'm sure you'd get more investment if you used P2Pool to support bitcoin blockchain diversity and offered to pay out merged-mining rewards.
He is using P2Pool, although with only a part of the hashing power. The rest is on some PPS pool which I don't remember the name now.
Well why isn't he paying out merged-mining rewards?