total miners 76328

minexmr.com 36.7

what would be considered a safe oercentage? < 20%?

safe % what? oh the minexmr.com dominance?

yes

tough balancing act. it's in a pool's interest to be altruistic enough to keep the network healthy, but they still need to make enough income

i think they should just start raising fees

and some think that its nothing to worry about, as pools gain and loose favor over time. i mean, dominant player used to be crypto-pool.fr , and now they barely register

but recently some noob came in and was like "whats your nakamoto coefficient" and looks like they bailed on monero because its "controlled" by 3 pool ops

meh

Maybe if a pool adds merge mining, they'll get some custom. But then if they do, the big pools will end up doing it too so...

P2P would also help. But big chunk of work, for no clear gain. Maybe nobody will care/use.

s/P2P/P2Pool/

yeah merge mining will be another shakeup. so far, it seems that monero pool distribution changes in response to PoW changes in general

though there's only been one instance of that , so...

sure the population overall had to have changed when shifting from GPUs to CPUs

empty block mined it seems: xmrchain.net/block/2312623 .

wonder if we're seeing block sniping or whatever its called

ah! it was supportxmr

It was a block mined 4 seconds after the previous one, mempool was empty

not according to my node :)

both were mined by supportxmr so their mempool was empty after the first of 2 blocks

ah

so close to 77k

77k what?

Miners 77086

Was it not like ~36k yesterday ? I claim counting methodology change.

maybe all the bullet-catching drones joined the network

No, the number has been growing slowly

also, those drones are not viable RX miners :)