I'm about to start a project which probably will strengthen P2Pools a lot.
As some of you may know P2Pools are decentralized mining pools, which among other advantages, reduce the possibility of 51% attacks.
You may have noticed that having low latency (low ping) to your pool reduces dead/stale-shares. This can be improved by having a node close to you.
The problem is that finding pools can be very hard and P2Pools often have only a IP-address which is hard to remember and some go down quickly when the pool-operator decided it is not efficient.
I want to solve this problem by creating an P2Pool-index.
But I won't stop there.I will offer an hierarchical subdomain, to make finding a working and local node easier.
The index is also intended to provide a community for p2pool-owners, helping each other with maintaining their nodes and properly connecting with other nodes to raise our collective luck.
Ultimately this will result in more blocks solved and higher payouts for all.
Domain registration is currently in progess. The subdomains will look like:
jkc1.eu.localpool.co.in (my own NL JunkCoin P2P-node, currently available at
http://jkc-pool.blockexplore.nl:19327/static/)
ryc1.eu.localpool.co.in (my own NL RoyalCoin P2P-node, currently available at
http://ryc-pool.blockexplore.nl:9999/static/)
I hope you will see the benefit here, both miners as p2pool-operators
