P2POOLS are GREAT
Much better than those private pools who either don't pay, hold your earnings until you reach a certain amount,
and/or take forever to earn very tiny weeny credits per block.
I used to mine on P2POOL.ORG - until it became overrun with miners and some BIG HASHERS with 16Mhs scrypt
took over several pools, taking 90% of the payouts for themselves, and leaving "dust" for everyone else.
I found a new P2POOL site running latest p2pool v13.4 on a fast server with 32gb ram
it is NOT connect to p2pool.org or it's nodes for the simple reason that when you mine on
p2pool.org or any one of the other pools connected to each other as nodes, you have to split
payouts with everyone on ALL the nodes, and not just that site, but all the connected p2pools!
This new site is an attempt to provide an alternative to p2pool.org, and because is not connected to
any nodes, when the pools find blocks, miners in its pools should get much BIGGER payouts and
not have to split with 1000s of other miners as in the p2pool.org noded sites.
Because this site is brand new it needs MINERS!
it also needs testing and if any problems or issues are found, contact the site immediately so they can address it.
Honestly, if it weren't for the BIG hashers and overfilled pools on p2pool.org, I would continue to mine on their site.
But lacking the hashing power, I can barely get any payouts there anymore, and if I do, they are very very small ones.
currently, they have pools for: 42coin, bitcoin, cryptonium, digibyte, digitalcoin, dogecoin, elacoin, feathercoin,
giftcoin, litecoin, mooncoin, and RonPaulCoin + many more soon to come.
please checkout : p2pool.neocities.org and maybe get some BIG payouts
and do so before it gets taken over with BIG miners like p2pool.org did!