To the DEV.
This is not hop proof.
Set up that user who GHS drop for 30 min or more lose there shares and his shares will be distribute among the users who stay longest.
This will make it hop proof and people will stay or go for good.
I was in P2pool for 6 months and it was the pool that pay the most, but since the bitcoin drop to 200 dollars it just died. If you look at the history 3 block per day and some days up to 5 blocks. I guest those days a long gone.
Thanks.
If you've been around here for 6 months as you state, you'll know that the dev does not interact with the community at all, so you're wasting your time asking for changes.
There is no such thing as hop-proof. Nothing you do can prevent somebody from moving off of this pool and onto another. This pool is definitely not hopper friendly, though. It takes a long time to ramp up your shares on the chain. Because it takes so long for you to ramp up, it deters you from moving from pool to pool because you're not getting the full potential of your hashing power. It's the same with any PPLNS pool.
Let's take an example. For our example, we have a miner who expects to find 1 share per day and the pool expects to find 1 block per day. If that miner only stays for 1 day, he'll only get 1 share on the chain. If he stayed for a week, he'd have 3 shares on the chain:
Day 1 - 1 share
Day 2 - 2 shares
Day 3 - 3 shares
Day 4 - 3 shares
Day 5 - 3 shares
...
Your suggestion doesn't work. For example, let's say that I'm a die-hard p2pool miner, but I don't own my own gear, I rent it. Let's say that I forgot to send coins to the rental site and my rental ends. I don't get it back up within the 30 minutes. According to your plan, I lose everything. What if that is 200TH/s worth of shares? Well, right now, that would get you about 2.5
BTC if a block were found. You're saying that this person should forfeit that 2.5
BTC. Yeah, good luck getting support for that.
As for history, please do look at the historical block finds. Sure, p2pool has had some exceptionally lucky streaks. It's also had some pretty exceptionally bad luck streaks, too. You'll see that it's not all roses and 3 and 5 block days when the price of BTC was over $200. Take a look back through this thread and you'll see plenty of times people making posts about, "can we get a block please?" - even well before BTC dropped to its current price point.
The guilty ones are the first one to come out....