Lessons learned being a stakepool operator for 9 days

Even if you are prepared to run a pool for altruistic reasons there is nothing worse than not actually getting to produce any blocks.

We want to support single pool operators because these are the ideal people who believe in decentralisation. People are working on ways to make things better for small pool operators. Nevertheless the cold facts will remain that your pool needs to have a certain percentage of total stake otherwise it won’t get awarded any slots. The only thing that can be done to help is to lower the barriers preventing small pool operators from growing their delegator stake.

See this thread: