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Maybe if I got a lot of interest from sub 150Khps miners who are sick of the whales killing the pool rewards, I could get something started. If mining could be more rewarding for people with lower hashrates, maybe It could give Magi a small boost in popularity and value.
Just thought I would put this idea out there for opinion.
I think this is a great idea! Incentivizing anything makes it more attractive to public attention. Appealing to the potential lower-hashrate miners like myself could greatly strengthen the network against what are essentially burst-fire round-robin 51% attacks. From what I can see, these attackers are bouncing from pool to pool, and these pool owners are either that naive, or genuinely don't care that the platform that they are making money on is getting slapped around. It can't be that hard to throw some IPs into UFW and call it a day, right?
Sure, there is the pesky issue of Tor nodes and VPNs, but if pool owners at least tried to do this, I feel it would drive away the less-motivated attackers into oblivion.