I wholeheartedly agree with you that the creator and maintainer of P2Pool is a hero who deserves to be compensated for his brilliant and ongoing contributions. Perhaps it is best that P2Pool users be encouraged to contribute towards the development costs of the platform in this way. And those who want to get a bit more of the benefit of the XTM rewards can still use the 2 or 3 other XMR pools that are offering merge-mining rewards (though at the cost of their respective pool fee).

In the wake of Qubic’s recent 18-block reorganization attack it is imperative to look at all avenues to grow the overall hashpower of the XMR network. The more anyone who is not Qubic mines on other (smaller) pools, the more power we would be taking away from them, and anyone else who might be looking to exploit the network in the future by virtue of their organizational resources.

Let’s all get mining, y’all.

Also, FUCK Github and FUCK Microsoft.

Using Microsoft to discuss decentralization is…not very smart :-|

Our community will have to do better if we are to have any hopes of keeping XMR decentralized.

Given that a coordinated attack resulting in a deep reorganization is no longer just a theoretical possibility:

I firmly vote “Yea” on this proposal, but with the significant proviso that this should only be done if CLOUDFLARE can be kept out of it entirely and completely.

DNSSEC and the conventional DNS network are resilient without needing the support of any large monopolistic influence as an intermediary in the running of the Monero network.

Trying to get a Tari node going for merge mining is absolutely insufferable, though. If there were a public XTM node available for use with P2Pool, I sense that it would bring P2Pool a LOT more hashrate from the larger/for-profit pools.

OMG that sounds delicious 🤤

Wish I could try it without needing to travel like a bazillion kms

I am happy to hear that the status quo works well for you — and I’m certainly not advocating that it shouldn’t. This is not a zero-sum game. Just like some people really liking PayPal and Coinbase today doesn’t mean there’s no legitimate need for Haveno. All of those options can coexist.

These foundational systems for Haveno must not work better for any one segment of the population than they do for the others, because that can only isolate and fragment the Haveno ecosystem before it is even fully-formed.

There are so many options available for issue-tracking and for source code hosting. To use the 1 most common name from those large (and incredibly diverse) lists only because most are comfortable using that dominant player would be quite like not making/advocating for/using Haveno because Paypal and Coinbase work okay for so many people.

It’s just plain silly to host the tech for a decentralized platform on Github. This may be another instance of the hidden costs of using a platform where many devs (myself included) simply will not participate. Github is both proprietary and closed-source. It’s parent Microsoft has a decades-long history of antagonism towards open source.

The suggestion that anything has changed with Microsoft’s role in open source is not just naive, it’s actually dangerous. A wolf, even in sheep’s clothing, will predictably tear apart the community home the moment it is invited in. Microsoft’s controlling investment in Github is a testament to its ongoing commitment to its well-documented strategy to Embrace, Extend, and finally Extinguish everything open source.

Tech discussions need to take place in one central place, where all the developers are. That one central place needs to be absolutely secure, open-source, and community-controlled without any trace of giant corporate financial interests.

Otherwise why don’t we just use PayPal and Coinbase?

Someone went well out of their way to meticulously plan and then devote resources towards disrupting this for many days. I honestly can’t think of any better evidence in support of the necessity of having this community.

Thanks for navigating us through this mess @[email protected] 💙

Is this true also for their “aggregated” pool? https://exch.cx/faq#aggregation

I’ve never used eXch for a swap to BTC, but it would be good to know for future reference.

No doubt.

Totally. Which is why I created this post to get some more opinions (and hopefully some experiences) from others. One way or the other, whatever information is revealed here will hopefully continue to be useful to others going forward.

The lack of a tor presence is quite telling, indeed. I hadn’t thought of that.

IIRC even LocalMonero had analytics deployed on their site. Or at least they did at one point.