I think we need Tycho to voluntarily block new people until he is below 33% (and that is a high amount already) of the hash rate. And convince the slush guy to do the same too.

I don’t know, the pie is from http://bitcoinwatch.com/.

It should be in every miner’s self-interest to switch from deepbit to another pool. If you don’t, you risk that the Bitcoins you mine could become worthless.

Also, deepbit has a fee of 3%. Other pools like Eligius do much better than that.

And convince Tycho and Slush not to conspire with each other

Free market man, Tycho should not FORCE people out of his pool... If he provides the best most consistent server, then he should get a big slice of the pie.  Last night I watched as one of his servers went down and as promised it automatically switched over to a failover server he has.  Me not having to worry and knowing that tycho is behind the pool is worth the 3% to me.

Also I would rather have 50% in a pool be the threat then 50% in one person be a threat... I would be wary of the mining companies.  If tycho starts doing something bad miners can move off his pool and thwart his attack... if a single person had that power... what, do we all run out and buy video cards as fast as possible?

The only thing Tycho did was make a good fair pool when there was no other good option at the time.

Can you tell me when mining on Slush's pool has ever been unstable except for this one recent instance?

Come on guys we all know you are in this for the $$$. If bitcoin gets attacked the least you would care once you have your BTC all converted to $$$ !

If people would care at all about Bitcoin and its security they would stop mining at deepbit.net monopoly but as you can see they all care about the moneyz !

I'd switch over to any pool that offered Instant Payouts, That's one of the major reasons I like deepbit. I hate having to wait half a day to get confirmed on slushes pool.

Eligius pays out instantly into your wallet via a generation transaction. You don’t even have to register.

Seriously, deepbit’s share of hashpower is troubling. I hope this will change soon.

Is there any open source pool software yet? Might help if anyone could easily set up their pool.

Not necessarily, but why take the risk?

What happen if someone hack into Tycho accounts, or impersonate him with great social engineering, and smuggle some rogue code around? Or do some other evil stuff? Also, even if everyone like and trust Tycho, would you give loaded shotgun to your mom and let her point at your head while swearing that she won't ever pull the trigger? What happen if the trigger is defective?