I agree with everything said about the theme 'dump'.
What is it really missing are pools. We need more like it happens with other coins, otherwise when there's a problem we lose hashpower that we take time to regain.
We need more pools to diversificate andd to attract more people to mine
Problems can always occur, but I know for a fact that the guy responsible for dutchpool.org is virtually sleeping next to the server, so any problem should be fixed in no time
also.... ALWAYS... ALWAYS... ALWAYS set up failover/backup servers when mining
i would personally set up 3 or 4, the last being solo mining (or mining on a local p2pool node)
with hashattack we will be setting up another server soonishly to be used as a backup (not that we have had any issues on our node), but i really recommend setting up backup servers in cgminer (or whatever miner you are using)
in cgminer its just as simple as adding another -o -u -p with the next pool
also you should probably use --failover-only in your cgminer
with me i usually set up like this:
p2pool node -> other p2pool node -> pps site ('normal pool') -> solo mining
