Why you are not using p2pool? (or a p2pool node hosted by one friend)

I am writing an article for my blog, and when I started thinking about which pool to use, I have noticed the fact that few people are on p2pool.

I have decided to try it for a week, to see if that is working as expected, but I am curious to know why we prefer to rely on external services (Eligius, Antpool, Slush, etc etc) rather than use a decentralized mining pool.

• What is preventing these services to "run away" with our BTC?
• Why don't you use p2pool?
• Is there a technical or a financial reason behind your choice as miner? Is there any profit reason?
• Why you, as user of a decentralized cryptocurrency, prefer to use centralized services for pool mining, with fees?

Submitted November 01, 2015 at 04:27PM by koalalorenzo http://bit.ly/1GTY053