Pools are not needed. Difficulty is so low that you can solo mine using CPU only. I get about 12-20 blocks a day with 20 kh/s.
P.S. Tomorrow I will attach the first (AFAIK) scrypt ASIC (dualminer w/ gridseed ASIC) to the LBW network. Probably just one, so that'll be another 70 kh/s for me.
good to know! I"m having a hard time just getting the client to sync.
Anyone have an updated node list?