04:46:16 <jtgrassie> it feels like every new miner just gets pointed towards one of the 3 largest pools
04:46:55 <jtgrassie> and newbies seem more concerned with compiling out the miner donation fee than looking for lower fee pools!
04:48:38 <jtgrassie> hell of a lot of miners have no clue what they're doing and just blindly use a "big" pool thiking it will get them the most profit.
04:49:24 <jtgrassie> it's an uphill battle trying to educate.
04:50:48 <jtgrassie> if/when there are more like 10 "big" pools evened out, this doesn't matter too much.
04:51:58 <jtgrassie> if the bigger pools upped their fees, it would probably help a bit so the newer/smaller pools can compete on fees at least.
04:53:57 <jtgrassie> what worries me more is if one of the big 3 has some outage/hack, all the miners they have will just jump to the other 2 big pools, which would make things worse.
05:59:51 <Inge-> community information is also limited on the smaller pools. When someone comes to #monero-pools with an issue on some smaller pool it isn't at all clear what the issue is, who to direct them to... The big 2 at least have a presence there ...
06:00:08 <Inge-> (and select smaller ones of course, but path of least resistance leads to the big pools)