GHash is evil. IIRC, EMC doesn't pay transaction fees, and no merged. p2pool has horrendous variance. Pick your poison.

Remember this pool has been under constant DDOS assaults for over 2 weeks now.
M
Getting very OT here but:
GHash is evil. <-- Why do you say that? It's a business, they are out to make money, is that evil?
EMC doesn't pay transaction fees, and no merged <-- Does not pay fees and no merged, but as I said you do get paid when you click the button. Till I get my NMC which is now 30 days out Eligius is not merged either

. However, because of DGM when my entire network ate itself I still was earning with EMC while I fixed a BGP issue.
p2pool has horrendous variance <-- True, but you know that going in. And you can run your own node. (I do)
Still can't connect on cable and now the traceroute from my network is all kinds of funky getting to stratum.mining.eligius.st 54.225.179.121 but since it's on AWS I don't think it's on their end. I am peered to Amazon through NYIIX so it might be that. Off to work to play with some routes.
-Dave