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Good idea.
Just FYI, most LTC pools have implemented this idea for months. But very first implementation was (AFAIK) in Solidcoin 2.0 in November 2011.

Just testing out your Pool, Fireduck.
Surprised it's still this small, already got my first payments came through.

Is 32 difficulty really that scary to everyone?

I've been mining long enough to realise merged mining means very very little difference to overall bitcoins I end up getting. Merged mining just makes it so that all these other bitcoin copies end up staying around longer than they should.

What I saw as nice was a PPS rate that is done exactly like everyone else, but with only a 2% fee, which is quiet tempting and to be honest, not having to register an account to mine their made the process really a lot easier.

Sure you could give it a face lift, but if you don't it's not the end of the world. I just want to see how my FPGA's handle doing a higher difficulty.

The share difficulty needs to be decided in advance. If a miner configured as a 32 miner submits a 1 share it will be rejected. If a miner configured as 1 submits a 32 share it will count just like a normal 1 share.

Yep.  I was thinking about doing something where the user specifies the difficulty in the username, so it would be address_difficulty.  That way miners can decide what difficulty made sense for their rigs.  Then I would also define a sliding scale where higher difficulty means less fees.  This would allow me to encourage selecting a higher difficulty which reduces DB strain on my end.

That is a good idea and for some parts might be easier since then the username doesn't need to be manipulated.  I might make the password be a HTTP style parameter string in case more things need to be added.

Something like:
difficulty=20&magic_pony=true&whatever=something

Is it even possible to mine at 1GH/s, and all diff>=32 get submitted to your pool, and any diff<32 get submitted to another pool?

That's what I thought, but your other post kinda made it sound like that could be possible.

How complicated is it to have multiple different share difficulties run from the same pool, and in your case I presume the same server?