Alright... my interest is piqued.  I've read through the thread but don't want to search or review it -- how does one go about joining the Telegram group, again? (Perhaps this information can be added to the first page/announcement of the thread.)

By the way, the difficulty and hash rate increased sharply today (perhaps there has been a greater interest in Sumo recently).  For example, from within the daemon at the moment (using the diff command), the hash rate is 2.57 MHz and the diff is about 617 million.  The crazy thing is the pools have hash rates of 122kHz + 223 kHz + 35 kHz, totalling 380 kHz,  So, the bulk of the network hash rate is a lot of folks solo-mining (totaliing 2570 - 380 = 2190 kHz = 2.19 MHz)??