total miners 88747

Wow big decline. Why is that?

dunno. now i wish i had screenshotted the entire thing so i could see each pool's contribution to that number

minexmr used to be over 50k miners, 41k now

maybe the loopholes that got closed everywhere, where people mined?

lol windows update probably killed a bunch of miners?

rolling out their mining sniffer thing?

but the update happened days ago?

🤷

i feel like this dropoff was sudden.

so more the action of one lever being flipped vs. 9k individual levers

however, supportxmr reports by mining address, right? so as moneromooo indicated one day, a botnet probably wouldn't generate a unique address per mining instance

unless it thought it was a way to avoid detection

how small can you pack address generating code?

though i guess viral load size really doesn't matter

<\x> they can just use subaddresses

That's a very good point.

one subaddress per infected machine? But then it has to reach minimal payout on its own

<\x> doesnt make sense yeah

minexmr minimal payout 0.004 XMR

That's a very good point too :D

<\x> im sure most botnetters are aware of xmr-node-proxy and xmrig-proxy

<\x> and its not like its hard to host them

well, i guess windows update coulda happened in a short time window for some reason or another

The miner count that miningpoolstasts shows for minexmr includes workerids

the number of unique wallets is around 13k

and there have been cases of a single entity using a large number of wallets

so only 13k unique users

we've been fooled this whole time :D

I wonder how many there were before, when #miners was 40k

so we actually have 60k miners if we count minexmr as 13k

unique wallets 2021-02-01 6k, 2021-03-01 8k, 2021-04-01 12k

so still substantial growth

just not same magnitude as we were talking before

<\x> hyc, Hashvault was talking about this last time

6k to 12k in 2 months is more in line with subredditstats.com/r/MoneroMining

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