So if someone is out there mining it, they are doing so without incoming ports open.
And raking in all the coins like I used to.
Of course everyone is interested to interconnect their daemons. If indeed there are several daemons out there not connnected to each other, that is in fact a chainsplit with several independent chains in existance. Once they connect to each other (or to the "real" network which might still be out there), all but the longest chain in existance vanish.
Maybe we should have a second look at how the peer discovery works..
Or, as the second possibility, MarkM is billionaire by now. GG billionaire, that is. :-)
Ente
(not implying that you are not aware of this, MarkM)