Kevin's Bacon on Nostr: It's definitely important to have Stratum endpoints to use as backups when our ...

It's definitely important to have Stratum endpoints to use as backups when our servers go down. There can be template providers out there which provide such a service to miners. It's not a huge deal to have them exist. What matters is the incentives and the tradeoffs. DATUM and TIDES pools allow such template providers to operate within that ecosystem and offer compelling rates, competitive against basic SV1 KYC pools.