MineXMR to shut down on August 12: 'So long and thanks for all the blocks'

The #1¹ Monero mining pool, MineXMR², is apparently planning to close the pool on August 12, just before the v15 Monero network upgrade³, and recommending transitioning to the decentralised p2pool⁴:

We regret to inform our valued miners that the pool will be closing on August 12. Please reconfigure your miners to use a different pool before this date. Any miners that are not updated before August 12 will stop working.

xnbya⁵, MineXMR’s admin, has previously cooperated⁶ with the Monero community by increasing the pool fee from 1% to 1.1% in an attempt to discourage centralization.

It will be interesting to see where ~40%⁷(~940 MH/s of 2.3 GH/s) of the total Monero network hashrate will go: how many MineXMR miners start using the decentralized P2Pool³, switch to #2 Nanopool⁸ and other centralized pools, go solo, or just quit.

Consult previous reports⁹’¹⁰’¹¹ for demos and guides, if you need help getting started with P2Pool.

This is an ongoing story and the report will be updated when new information is available.

Update: closure delayed¹².