I'm on pool many time and at once with low power find block on pplns, but don't know that Kano put a pig to all of us.
Very good, that blocks accepted without comissions by pool.
But how we can spend this bitcoins? I try to move 1btc, but transaction weight about 100kb, because so many inputs. It's the biggest comission.
I think it not more good as SPV mining with empty blocks. Blocks with synthetical rubbish - analog of empty blocks for network.
For miners pool Kano is pool with hide comission about 5-10% for use mining bitcoins by time.
Of course, if you power more big - this comission less, but for big money you need too less inputs.
Therefore people go out from pool, because china frends not so honest, but not do this harm to their miners and network at all.
Pool is vitally important minimal limit settings for output.
The alternative to all those small payouts, which is what causes you to require a larger fee to move your BTC, is that Kano keeps a hot wallet on the pool side. A hot wallet makes a hacking target and opens everyone up to the possibility of a large loss. Kano has said he doesn't want to keep a hot wallet so that's why we get the small payouts which in turn means a larger fee for us to spend it. What I do is keep a mining wallet and when it hits about 1BTC I move that to another wallet where I keep most of my BTC. So when I spend, I spend from my larger wallet so I can use a small fee and still get a quick confirmation on the transaction.
One thing that might be useful (if we got more blocks on a regular basis) is a consolidated payout. It seems like we often get paid for 3 or 4 blocks at a time, so getting that all paid in one lump sum rather than 3 or 4 separate payouts all at the same time, would help a little. However, the trade off there is that it would become more difficult for the miners to keep track of getting paid for every block. Maybe if Kano put a txt note on the transaction that included block numbers?
EDIT: I see others made the same point while I was typing.
