I think the lack of a mining client with stratum support is a pretty big freakin deal, right?
Well, not that much. Stratum protocol aims to reduce the load on pool servers with a huge number of miners by letting the miners:
- create unique valid work for themselves when they run out of shares and there was not a new block on the network
- listen for changes instead of asking for them every couple of seconds, thus reducing the bandwidth used by miners/pools by disabling longpoll and making the pool push notifications to miner
The first point doesn't need correcting yet as it's not slowing down miners (because YAC mining is so slow anyway), and the second is not a big deal unless the pools run out of bandwidth due to a HUGE amount of miners.
I'd say a bigger deal would be integrating CPU mining into more sophisticated clients like cgminer (AFAIK there's yacminer with only GPU support). This way you would have the option to failover from one pool to another automagically, which is needed badly right now with pools crashing every couple of minutes (no idea why they're crashing).
its not pool which is crashing - pushpool is not able to handle so many connections... I will open few more ports today evening to support higher interest of yac mining
