In case you're wondering what's going on here are a few posts detailing the issue:
- Upcoming Hard Fork Will Fix The Miner Witness Queue Issue
- Witness arhag update: Aug. 1, 2016 to Aug. 8, 2016 by @arhag
- Update Proof of Work Algorithm to Prevent Shortcut
The devs are working hard to get this fixed so all kudos to them!
The Devs need some respect, these guys are so busy but tehy are listning and doing everthing to make this site rock, so rockit to the moon babes
It seems that he is now totlly dominating the miner-witness queue, so we need the fix implemented quickly. I'm sure that other miners have been discouraged by this already and have given up mining Steem for the moment.
Yeah, I've turned off my miner. Not that it generated anything to begin with but now it's outright impossible. Good thing that mining is such a minor part of Steem.
You might be interested in a post I just made. https://steemit.com/steem/@picokernel/new-miner-dominating-the-queue-my-opinions about a possible new miner dominating the queue