15:26:39 <gingeropolous> total miners 76328
15:26:48 <gingeropolous> minexmr.com 36.7
15:28:13 <hyc> what would be considered a safe oercentage? < 20%?
15:28:51 <gingeropolous> safe % what? oh the minexmr.com dominance?
15:29:19 <hyc> yes
15:30:32 <hyc> 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
15:32:49 <gingeropolous> i think they should just start raising fees
15:34:35 <gingeropolous> 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
15:35:54 <gingeropolous> 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
15:48:23 <hyc> meh
15:54:03 <moneromooo> 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...
15:54:29 <moneromooo> P2P would also help. But big chunk of work, for no clear gain. Maybe nobody will care/use.
15:54:38 <moneromooo> s/P2P/P2Pool/
15:55:36 <gingeropolous> yeah merge mining will be another shakeup. so far, it seems that monero pool distribution changes in response to PoW changes in general
15:55:55 <gingeropolous> though there's only been one instance of that , so...
15:56:33 <hyc> sure the population overall had to have changed when shifting from GPUs to CPUs
16:41:12 <gingeropolous> empty block mined it seems: https://xmrchain.net/block/2312623 .
16:41:39 <gingeropolous> wonder if we're seeing block sniping or whatever its called
16:42:04 <gingeropolous> ah! it was supportxmr
16:52:20 <sech1> It was a block mined 4 seconds after the previous one, mempool was empty
16:52:52 <gingeropolous> not according to my node :)
16:53:54 <sech1> both were mined by supportxmr so their mempool was empty after the first of 2 blocks
16:54:14 <gingeropolous> ah
17:11:45 <gingeropolous> so close to 77k
19:25:47 <Inge-> 77k what?
19:26:08 <sech1> Miners 77086
19:29:17 <moneromooo> Was it not like ~36k yesterday ? I claim counting methodology change.
19:32:16 <Inge-> maybe all the bullet-catching drones joined the network
19:40:01 <sech1> No, the number has been growing slowly
19:50:47 <Inge-> also, those drones are not viable RX miners :)