Quote from: DrHaribo on December 29, 2014, 10:48:34 AM

Quote from: AaronS on December 29, 2014, 08:38:02 AM

Quote from: DrHaribo on December 28, 2014, 12:56:45 AM

Milestone: we now have 300 000 registered users!

According to the stats pager there are about 2000 users currently mining. Does this mean there are 298 000 registered users who are inactive or at least not currently mining at BitMinter?

Yes. It's cool that 300 000 people have used Bitminter. It would be even cooler if they were all mining right now. Tongue

Makes me wonder how many people are mining bitcoins right now, globally.

5600-6000 on BTC Guild during any given shift in the last week. It's a bit harder to tell these days because I know there are some people *still* trying to mine on CPU/GPU, and due to increases in minimum difficulty they only get a share in once every few hours.

It was closer to 10,000-12,000 about 6 months ago, if that's any indication of current mining trends. The pool speed is up, but the number of mining accounts in a given shift is cut in half.