I wholeheartedly agree with you that the creator and maintainer of P2Pool is a hero who deserves to be compensated for his brilliant and ongoing contributions. Perhaps it is best that P2Pool users be encouraged to contribute towards the development costs of the platform in this way. And those who want to get a bit more of the benefit of the XTM rewards can still use the 2 or 3 other XMR pools that are offering merge-mining rewards (though at the cost of their respective pool fee).

In the wake of Qubic’s recent 18-block reorganization attack it is imperative to look at all avenues to grow the overall hashpower of the XMR network. The more anyone who is not Qubic mines on other (smaller) pools, the more power we would be taking away from them, and anyone else who might be looking to exploit the network in the future by virtue of their organizational resources.

Let’s all get mining, y’all.