probably get some kick-backs from them

<gingeropolous[m]> "and im sure they're point at..." <- Running p2pool means exposing yourself more, because you have to point the miners to an ip address directly associated with you

nah, just launch it on a 'borrowed' server somewhere

Sure, but keep in mind that you need a node along that p2pool

Which means at least 50-60GB of storage (for the pruned chain + 0.5GB for p2pool + the OS), a few gigs of ram, and quite some time to sync up

no biggy, I'm sure if they can fire out a botnet to scan/pwn machines autonomously they can hide some resources in a borrowed VPS somewhere

could just use a public monerod

or at least a very fast connection, if you're directly uploading a pre-synced copy of the chain from somewhere else - but even that might be fingerprintable

might lose the odd share, but if its free hashrate

pauliouk: nope, you need unrestricted RPC access and the ZMQ port

neither of which are offered by public nodes

theres 2 official monerod hosts with that :P

only --no-randomx requires unrestricted accees to monerod