I don't think managing 5 accounts will be cumbersome, because all they need to do is changing the worker id in the biblepay.conf file. The only problem is login to different pool's account for stats and reports.
I think it is better to have more pools, I know someone is waiting to setup a new pool for biblepay
First off, if the main benefit to multiple pools is redundancy. If one pool gets a glitch, the other can wait and see how to resolve it. At this point any other pools are going to be running versions of the same pool software and since BBP is in such active development, they'll likely be in lockstep. The only difference you'll likely see between pools is minor rules, such as worker limits, letter fees and overall pool fee. For the record, I'm starting a pool in the next week or so with the blessing of the Dev. It'll pretty much mirror the main pool but will lag on feature updates and be less feature rich (most likely things like the orphan letters will be missing). I'm just waiting for a decent chunk of time to start working on it and a few more days for block 7000 to work it's way through the system.
My personal thoughts are there is no reason to limit pool workers, there are too many easy ways to get around it. However, I'd say the solution is to show only their first 5 in the logs and then a note that says "
57 additional: 542246 (584455)" Ultimately even big miners are a benefit to the pools. The way I see it, a big farm would just as well be off solo mining, they'll gain the law of averages and not have the overhead of pool communication (which is very small, but in aggregate adds up). So if you chase them off the pools, the pools will get fewer shares and do so less frequently. While mathematically it works out to be the same for all players, most people I would think would rather get small payouts more frequently than large payouts less frequently. That's because I'd say a decent number of smaller miners do what I do, run hard at night or while at work, run light while they're on the PC.
And while I'm writing, I'd say "big miners" is all relative too. To the person running one wallet on a two core four thread Intel chip, I'm a big miner with my (sometimes but soon to be more) four boxes. To me, Tiras is a big miner with their 16 boxes, to Tiras, tonywon is a big miner with their 30 boxes. To tonywon, linglui would be a big miner. It's all relative. But the coin benefits from more users. The coin also benefits from a stable hash rate, and much like with electric generation, you do need a "base load" to get you over the difficulty humps (look at what's going on in Das right now, they've got too few miners that mine all the time and when a difficulty bubble occurs it takes HOURS to find a new block). But in the end, as long as people like my general computer literate friends can call me up, spend five minutes setting up Biblepay (while I'm on the phone with them) and mine at genproclimit=2 so they don't notice a performance hit on their only computer, it's good for everyone. They strengthen the peer-to-peer network by their presence, they earn a small sum of coins every so often for little impact.
And finally, this is still a very new coin, there are going to be hiccups. If you want a stable coin, go to Bitcoin, Ethereum or DASH and you'll get just that. However, this is a fun time for people like me, the infancy of a coin and we've got a very active Dev that is responsive, so I really believe this coin can reach it's first birthday and be still going strong. If that happens, it benefits all of us who are early adopters, who made it through these glitches and kept mining, kept supporting the coin. Likely it means the price will go up and those in early will benefit. And don't mistake my motives, I'd be very pleased to make some money. But I'm also very pleased with the idea that if this coin succeeds, we're doing more than just helping ourselves, a bunch of first world, relatively well off (in the global sense) computer guys and gals. We're actually helping the poor around the world. Regardless of your personal beliefs on the Bible and Christianity, this coin is trying to help those less fortunate and that's a common thread in most religions and core beliefs. If this coin succeeds, it will continue to help the less fortunate, and hopefully that benefit will grow more and more with the coin.
), so it's always strictly better (i.e. more profitable) to be in a mid-size to large pool. It's only by a few %, but still.
), but as you said there are a lot of casual miners (especially for a CPU coin), who will mine maybe only a few hours a day on their home PC for example while it's idle and they will not keep it running at night because of heat and noise etc. So at a large pool, they will be rewarded after contributing for even just a few minutes, so they can rely on the pool giving them their part for even very small work, while a small pool could maybe not even find one block while their miner is active, which can get awfully close to solo mining.
