09:55:09 <sech1> Miners 36916
15:02:28 <gingeropolous> total miners 37598
15:02:31 <gingeropolous> wtf is going on
15:27:31 <asymptotically> gingeropolous: where do you get that number from? miningpoolstats.stream?
15:30:20 <sech1> miners 37607
15:30:32 <sech1> maybe those HTC phones coming online?
15:30:48 <sech1> Or people sitting at home and setting up rigs?
15:31:41 <sech1> Or people who lost their jobs due to all the shit going in the world and trying to earn anything with what they have?
15:32:04 <sech1> I see a lot of newbie posts in r/moneromining
15:37:21 <selsta> is the hashrate also rising?
15:38:32 <sech1> it did go up a bit
15:43:07 <moneromooo> You must be looking at another chain. It's at 1.26 now, and it's been between 1.15 and 1.3 for like a month or two.
15:58:24 <sech1> It was at 1.15, now at 1.25
15:58:52 <sech1> it went up in the last couple of days which coincided with miner count going up
16:02:43 * moneromooo suspects pareidolia.
16:09:12 <sech1> just check out recent posts in r/moneromining
16:09:23 <sech1> there are really a lot of new people there
16:10:17 <hyc> I just had a random DM on twitter asking about mining or buying
16:10:47 <hyc> the guy said specifically he's worried about his current stock investments and wants to transfer some into monero
20:12:01 <fucid> why is multi-algo bad?
20:12:20 <hyc> insecure
20:12:29 <fucid>  is it possible to require the same block to be mined by multiple algorithms?
20:12:50 <fucid>  would this make it secure?
20:13:31 <hyc> don't think that would hurt security, but it would hurt verification speed
20:13:57 <fucid> agreed. would it help security?
20:14:00 <hyc> also, any other algorithm you can think of is already ASIC-optimized