Insider holdings of stocks are made public.  While I am not suggesting that cryptocurrency is subject to these rules there is a reason they exist.
http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/insidertradingguide.htm

Bot miners don't have any skin in the game- although it does seem to have let up. My guess that is what is depressing prices.

Instead of trying to make a coin 'cpu only', how about a coin that would allow blocks generated from SHA256, Scrypt or CPU? Difficulty adjustments would depend on the algorithm used and would be adjusted to seek parity. The advantage would be that the network would be supported by a variety of hardware making it the most secure and would pique the interest of any miner regardless of their hardware investment. With an open model algorithms could be added as crypt-currencies evolve.

Not sure if it is even technically possible, but thought I would throw it out there....

Miner improvement- in linux cpus drop to zero for a few seconds, sometimes for much more. I am guessing it is polling for new work. Any way to improve so cpu is always busy? I can run two processes at once with cores double loaded but I am getting more rejects.

You can have more threads than cores with no performance issues (unlike ptsminer) run 8 on 6 core.

Seems like the restart fixed the bug with balance not being subtracted from unconfirmed, but still wrong block on front page. Is that value stored somewhere in the db?

Getting good throughput on your pool, seems like most  bugs worked out.