This is a thread to discuss the pros and cons of starting and running a Group Buys Forum specific Mining Pool.
bobsag3 is willing to pay for the domain name and hosting fees, as well as care for the GB Mining Pool server itself. We also seem to have quite a bit of software support with an amazing amount of software programming skill diversity for something like this within our own co-op.
In return, we'd have our own zero fee Mining Pool that will be tailored for Group Buy Coordinators and Group Buyers (as in everyone has their own dashboards for their own miners). Group Buy Coordinators/Organizers who chose to use this GB Forum Pool would benefit from zero fee mining pool services and our co-op's resources and willing programmers.
=================================================================================================================
Please discuss your concerns or interest in supporting such a GB specific Mining Pool. Also, please provide suggestions that may help with things like: security, anti-DDOS measures, maximizing payouts, etc., etc.
Of course: we can have failover pools elsewhere but it might be nice to have a mining pool to call our own as a primary mining pool option, with all of the advantages and benefits that can be associated with it if it's tuned/tweaked just for us.
=================================================================================================================
I can likely pledge our co-op's entire hashrate to this if there's enough interest, which is currently at 8.2-11TH/s total ordered miners, and accounting for overclocking above nominal hashrate. That: combined with -Redacted-, bobsag3 and if all his customers signed on, we'd likely be up to about 30-40TH/s right there, as the start of a GB specific Mining Pool.
Please keep in mind that the Bitcoin protocol is meant to be decentralized, and not centered in a handful of giant pools with all the risks of 51% attacks that could entail.
Thoughts about the whole concept?
Cheers,
DZ