Those with more money than sense evidently. But it always poses the question; how did they acquire that money in the first place?

As as you say though, with reference to the Monero scam clones; imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...  

There's more to a pool than just software, though.  You need to get people to mine with you.
So who here thinks the bot-herders are going to set up a pool of their own?
I mean, it's possible.  There are probably enough bot-herds to make a pool.  But is herding bot-herders like herding cats?

Yea but I bet even 10,000 iot devices or some very large number like that probably isn't enough to win enough blocks to feel comfortable operating without a pool.

How come OpenBazaar doesn't accept Monero?

Someone was asking who all this mysterious hashing power is. Here is an article saying that it's north korea

https://news.sky.com/story/north-korean-hackers-mining-cryptocurrency-monero-11192924

WAT?

Mine loaded, then synced ~1000 blocks to current in seconds.

node.moneroworld.com:18089  

Nice one  

https://www.investopedia.com/tech/introduction-monero-xmr/

https://www.investopedia.com/tech/most-important-cryptocurrencies-other-than-bitcoin/

As an experiment, to see how things have changed, I just took a few Monero and made market for 5 days.  That yeilded 23 bp per diem.  It's a high p sample size, but - hey - who can keep it up for a couple of months?  Anyhow, that is about one third of what the same strategy was yielding in mid 2016 to early 2017. For what it is worth. (But don't let the yeild confuse you: This is not a scalable strategy; the more you deploy, the lower the yield.  You can't just compound the rate. Compounded, it is more like sigmoidal than exponential growth.  If you want something more  scalable, go play EURUSD or USDJPY.)

Anyhow, the market appears, naively and prima facie, to be getting significantly more efficient. Which is good.  Now if only Bitcoin would become as efficient! Then XMR could well and truly moon.  This absurd BTC correlation must die eventually.

Shillers.


Is there any non BTC forked coins on it?