Stratum v2 is great, but I wonder if it really makes any sense to operate a pool as a company in the US (like Ocean) and expect that you will avoid attack from the authorities (wrt kyc and censorship). Custody arguments will probably not convince the thugs.

I've always found the concept of pools a bit bewildering - shares are cool in a non adversarial environment but 'block withholding attacks' - is it really an attack if your house is made out of paper, and the wind picks up?

If you solve that attack, there will be 10 others.

Easy for me to wisecrack but tbh i don't have solutions.