hi,

I am the owner of grcpool.com and bbppool.com. Just to clear things up about registration being closed... I am not entirely sure I will open registrations back up on the pool at this point. Originally, I closed it because I wanted to keep an eye on some of the mandatory updates that were happening. Also, I was having some problems getting regular podc payments from the network (which seemed to have been fixed) and didn't want to be expanding if that didn't clear up. In addition, frankly, there were a number of things that distasted me about the project in general. Also, with the prices being so low, buying in shouldn't be very scary, of course I know that means you have to have the knowledge/ability to exchange.

Honestly, GRC is still my preference by a long way, and with grcpool being able get BBP now (along with other coins/tokens), I see less reason for bbppool to exist from my personal perspective. I think bbppool might as well join team gridcoin to get the rewards for all available tokens, which would put it as running the same as grcpool. I would rather have my personal funded staking funds running on grcpool to support the large community there. I expect to start processing the BBP earning this week as I am taking a pool vote on how to handle the BBP.

As it was mentioned, grcpool.com has a couple of versions that are online open source. bbppool is forked from them (the php pool on Gridcoin community github). I would be willing to put the current version of bbppool on my github also. They aren't the most open source friendly as its not like a one click setup kind of thing, but they can help by seeing how some of the critical features operate.

If you would like further discussion, please feel free to contact me on the discord channel @bgb.