From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr.org>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:11:48 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Help wanted: translations
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On Monday, October 10, 2011 9:18:07 AM Mike Hearn wrote:
> > > > As I will no longer be using bitcoind for Eligius soon
> > > 
> > > What will you be using instead? Isn't bitcoind a requirement for
> > > running
> > 
> > a
> > 
> > > pool?
> > 
> > Writing some custom software designed to more efficiently create work.
> > To clarify, bitcoind will still serve the purpose of peering with
> > external nodes and picking out valid transactions to be accepted into
> > blocks; it just
> > won't be involved in the primary operations of the pool.
> 
> Ah, I see. Sounds a bit like the direction Steve is going with poolserverj.
> So your custom software would handle incrementing the extraNonce,
> recalculating the merkle tree/root, and so on?

Yes, does that already. Hard part right now is implementing a stateless TCP/IP 
"stack" so it can ignore DDoS sanely.