And the best part is that the swap over to the new mining software was super easy. Monero had no choice here, in order for it to remain a private and fungible coin. There is no way they could let one company, bitman et al to dominate the mining of its blocks. This fundamentally goes against the ideas behind monero and indeed any decentralized Currency.

I had my rig back up and running in about 10 min with the new claymore 11.3. 😉