I've mined hundreds on a test net. If that qualifies. I could even set up a temporary test pool up just demonstrate that it works as expected.
At this point I think it'd be prudent to give you 48h to try to get an actual pool off the ground and demonstrate payouts and block mining, so we can at least give you some small fraction of the reward.
A small fraction, doesn't sound so good but, okay.
Look, you were much later, and your pool hasn't even been demonstrated to work at all. If you are able to do so, your demonstration will be much, much later. Asking for something like an even split at this point is fairly absurd.
I'm all in favor of having multiple open source pool implementations available for pool operators to choose from. But without some sort of evidence that this is actually a working and workable pool implementation we have nothing to go on in terms of fair judging of the pool award.
Any contended awards will be voted on by the donors. So we are not making a final decision here, but I think our reasoning is sound and will likely be adopted by the donors/voters. (Of course tacotime and myself are major donors, so we have an actual vote as well as our leadership in sorting out the situation.)
