It has not worked yet. P2ppool is steadily growing still, new miners have no reason to join a pool. Big system administrators will keep flexing on pools every now and then I guess, botnets too. I don't see us worrying once p2pool gets top 3 or thereabouts.
Okay. Walk me through this. How do you enforce the use of p2pool on the protocol level? How would you even distinguish a pool operation against a solo mining operation?
Wownero tried to eliminate the pool mining. But they enforced solo mining on the protocol level.
So, how would one enforce p2pool mining on the protocol level?
Nanopool of all pools. As far as I can tell both moneroocean and nicehash are still mining zephyr, we've lost some hashes there, on top of low price and high electricity costs for many, heat waves for many others... all in the middle of August when "nobody" is watching. Looks like a potential perfect storm.
Still, I would bet my ass THEY are still asleep. 51% attack makes no sense other than damaging the network. No gains to be made for any participants, zero incentives.