Confessions of a Mining Pool Operator

Please note that this talk will likely be a little bit less technical than the typical Blockchain Dev presentation, and I would encourage non-developers to attend
In November 2018 I, Kylan Hurt, partnered up with a server-side developer to put together mining pool software in anticipation of the January 2019 GRIN cryptocurrency launch. Cryptocurrency mining was an area of the ecospace that I knew very little about, but I pushed forward and started helping put together the mining pool.
Now a few weeks removed from the official launch, how did our mining pool fare? What lessons were learned? What went well and what went poorly? Would I ever do it again? I give the dirty details on 2019's biggest cryptocurrency launch as seen from the side of a mining pool operator and administrator.