What I don't get:
What is so bad about pool(s) ?
well, there are 2 main things:
1- centralization of hashpower in the hands of few pool owners (sometimes a single pool has 51% of the hash power, which allows them to perform 51% attacks on the network)
2- multipools dumping the coins as soon as they are mined, making the price of the coin go down.
There are also good things about pools, like enabling more predictability in the income from mining and allowing small miners to mine when hashrates are too big. So it's actually a "choice" this coin has made to avoid pools, and it has been a successful one.
1. Well miners decide where to mine, if they see the pool gets too large/big, they can just move away. Fair pool ops would also close registrations and put a message on the pool for the miners to spread.
2. A multipool is also helping coins getting the price up.. Imagine coins that are not mineable anymore, a multipool mines other currencies and buys "that" coin with the coins it mined and pays out in "that" currency.. There is nothing bad about it - I - or any other pool op, could set up a normal multipool for SPR in a few minutes.
Some seem to forget that there are lot of "private" pools in SPR.. I saw a distribution chart somehwere in this thread, I think it was in the OP, well, if that doesn't look like there are a few private pools i don't know what it looks like
Everything that is somekind of "worthy" will be mined by people with lots of hashing power.. So always the people with the biggest hash get the most coin.. It doesnt matter if there are private or public pools
Well, clearly there are already a lot of coins for those who do agree with you. SPR is the coin for those who DO NOT. I still prefer not to rely on the conscience of pool owners and miners and have a little bit o mathematics give me a little help. As i said, there is value in pools and there is also problems. Choosing to allow or avoid pools in a coin is mostly a choice.
And, based in your last sentence, i don't think you got it correctly : we are not communists here, we really don't care that some people make more money than others, we are talking about securing the blockchain, not about distributing wealth.