Releasing the source to the pools early may cause some issues, the biggest of which is some of them launching too early.
Having some people solo mine for the first few minutes also helps strengthen the blockchain and avoid forks.
I vote to give everyone access to the source at the same time.
Please quote this post if you agree. Thank you.
We have received the source early on other coins and have never had an issue. In the end, miners are a lot more happy when they can mine @ launch and not 10 minutes after.
The dev was saying something like 15-20 minutes early. It might take a fast pool op under 5 minutes to compile.
Maybe your pool is honest, but do you trust
all of them?