I really don’t believe that it’s a coincidence, though I hope it is, and I will happily eat my words if things change. The one possibility is that the problems with the Full Node caused this drop.
However, I am on track again, this week, to have very low average earnings, maybe even less than last week’s low.
This drop in earnings was representative across many nodes in the node pool on Jservers as well. Maybe some people haven’t noticed a drop, but those people likely only have 1 or 2 nodes. It’s only possible to view the wide picture of change over a large number of nodes. If we only look at 1 or 2 nodes by themselves, that distorts the true view of what’s actually happening.