I don't think this problem will truly go away until more pools bring the confirmation time down.
I disagree. The confirmation time being reduced from the regular 120 down to 60 was a desperation move, while blocks were being solved once every hour or two, back when we were still at difficulty 172 and miners were leaving mining Catcoins in large numbers, to try to retain some mining. In practice, recognizing confirmation faster than the coin network itself is unsustainable and risky to the pool (i.e., can cause the pool to go bankrupt), because there is always the risk of a fork, and if a pool pays out after only 60, then a fork is discovered, and the users pull out the funds, and the pool loses the coins it thought it had, then it is bankrupt. Even without a fork, a pool can go bankrupt, because the supply of immature coins cannot be spent, and if enough people chose to withdraw their CATs before they became available to the pool, unless the pool has sufficient reserves of CATs it is willing to loan pending the immature coins maturing, it physically cannot allow withdrawals. So lowering confirmations is a fiction - what is really happening is the pool operater is loaning CATs without any security or collateral - except immature coins, which if they become revoked, the pool operator is out the coins. There is a limit to how long this kind of practice can continue and limit to how much Catcoin network hashrate can increase before pools offering 60 confirmations will have to stop offering it - or some of the pools will start having trouble timely honoring requests for withdrawal.
With the very long block times now behind us, all the pools should return to waiting for 120 confirmations, because that matches the behavior of the QT wallet, and is standard.
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