I'm a miner myself with a reasonably large farm. What's wrong with selling a little STD if people want to buy? RE: Pool fees - our fees are actually quite low, considering the considerably increased profitability we provide our miners, two full time staff members, servers, and the number of man-hours spent in development.
I appreciate your being a miner too ... that being said .....the three % of 1000MH currently on your pool is approx 30MH worth of coins that the community ... members of the pool provide to you... much more than most people have . I think that the pool is a business as such shouldn't be selling against the community that provides the 30MH to you.. Im not saying you shouldn't sell your coins but maybe sell them from a personal account instead of the IPOminer account. Separate your business of running a pool and your business of being a miner. Just good business practice . But maybe it doesn't seem odd to anyone else .... just saying ...first time i've seen a pool operator do this kind of thing.
And how do you know this? Are you the pool owner? How would you know what he does with the coin sales. Im not trying to create an issue in fact I mine at IPO and multi pool so I do truly appreciate the service (even though the interface feels outdated) . But it seems you know his motives and are speaking for him so maybe you are him. Just seemed odd to see a pool operator hawking coins before they were on a market .... Also thought it was odd for a multi pool to push up the hash rate and difficulty so quickly after a launch ....and kill the other pools incomes .... this kind of thing will kill scrypt coins from being put out in the future I suspect.. Just my personal observation ..no real issues here.
