Also pls consider having colo server and technical support backups.

So I decided to keep fees on the pool up, just lower them from current 2% to 1%.

I guess Nefario has a good point about audits being easier with Bitcoins and that is definitely and advantage compared to gold. But it also requires a bunch of people to be vigilant and to understand all the pitfalls of money systems. I'd much rather see these protections against money creation baked into the system that will actually be in use by everyone.

Isn't the whole point of Bitcoin that you can move the _actual_ Bitcoins around. If you are going to give that up, what have you won?

just pay the fee

I just have a question regarding solved blocks. If a person's miner is active are they ensured to at least receive some sort of reward? My miner is currently GPU mining all night with your service and I noticed the odd reward where it says "None" even though my miner is active. i.e solved block #1003 to #1012 I'm reward, #1013 no reward, #1014 to 1017 reward, #1018 no reward. I did noticed in the case of #1018 the number of shares is very low, does that just mean I didn't receive a getwork for that block and therefore didn't participate? Is this intended behaviour?

Presumably, a commercial bitcoin payment processor would spend the bucks to enter the network at a wide array of points, implementing their own double-spending detection and prevention.