Hi there davembg
There are already 3 pools nobody is using... cryptopia, crytopools and my NOMP pool.
The problem is the lack of community actively managing hash rate spread between available pools and therefore allowing danbi's pool to run off in the wrong direction - not a lack of pools. 

Yeah, I see that now.
Good, saves me time an headache:)

Then, we need a POW submitblock cap in the code - self-monitoring isn't working.
3-forks in one-years time is bad, bad news.

a pool forked away network did stay unharmed

hybrid POW/POS did show again his power

while in pure POW networks full power lies in mining pools

a hybrid POW/POS network much more resistant against bad behaving pools even if major hashrate inside

the problem why a pool can fork away is because at some degree of hashrate the pool starts to belive himself more than the network

and then he create his own fork

(i did post in last few week multiple times about spread hashrate
and what can happen and that it will harm the miner on pool
wasting a day of electricity
and exact that happend......

if u tell someone dont jump off the bridge it will hurt you
- and he jump -

who is responsible?
the guy who say dont jump?
the bridge?
or the guy who jumped?

should we forbid build bridges in the future?
)

until yet i know only of 3 wallets who forked

out of like 200 regulary open wallets each day (and lot more if u add the rare opened wallets twice a month)?

and all 3 returned to mainnet

if at all its a sign of strengh

the other topic about timedrift is more interesting and will be addressed next month

in fact we had this on last wallet todo list

by some misstake it wasnt in final code

but it will be now

and as i said regarding mining there will be interesting changes where i anounce more once it run successfull through all internal tests

what i love to see is china is getiing slowly wallets
we had china in the past long as grey area
we see now 3-5 wallets regulary and increasing!

still japan stay our far east hostspot with around 10 wallets average online

always rememeber for a coin
where u need only be active minting mode 2 times 2 days a month to mint fine
we have very high rate of active network wallets

im impressed by our community and stakeholders about their constant network support

maybe the tiny bit more POS income by compound interest might be a reason too  

Question for Cryptonit :

But if i take my DMD core wallet active 24/7 is it a problem ? or is ok ?

24/7 wallets are valuable support of DMD Network helping relay blocks and strenght the network

thx for ur support

Thanks for the answer.... glad to help the coin.... Cheers.

Yes, we seamlessly passed it and now the reward value POS is 25% 

dear pool operators

it seems not one not two but all of u forgot that with total coins 1500000 a new foundation share address have to be used

thats the reason why now only solo miner find POW blocks because all pools use the wrong foundation share address

please check this
https://github.com/DMDcoin/Diamond/blob/master/src/main.cpp#L4784
and adapt foundation share address to
dPbhK6rPtaBeGepU1nqghZRy4NWot5T7dG

Whow! probably come out an unpredicted reactor payout.....