Another year of #Porcfest, another round of vendor stats:
Percentage of revenue:
#Cash 68.99% (was 72.2%)
#Zelle 2.16% (was 2.69%)
#Goldbacks 3.2% (was 11.77%)
#Silver 3.82% (was 4.44%)
#Monero 7.95% (was 5.42%)
#Bitcoin 5.33% (was 0.47%)
#Zano 3.09% (was 0%)
#BitcoinCash 2.73% (was 0.62%)
#FUSD 1.79% (was 0%)
#Zcash 0.41% (was 0%)
#Dogecoin 0.22% (was 0%)
#Ethereum 0.17% (was 0%)
#Litecoin 0.13% (was 0.56%)
#BitcoinLightning wasn't available this year, as the non-custodial setup stopped working (was 1.82%)
The percentage of total crypto sales was:
~7% in 2022
~9% in 2023
~9% in 2024
~22% in 2025
So the numbers, only looking at crypto, are:
#XMR 36.4%
#BTC 24.4%
#ZANO 14.2%
#BCH 12.5%
#FUSD 8.2%
#ZEC 1.9%
#DOGE 1%
#ETH 0.8%
#LTC 0.6%
So Zano coming in hot (probably thanks to the three Zano Foundation guys mostly) and Monero is still leading the crypto pack.
Overall Fiat usage declined ever so slightly (-5%), while precious metal usage declined dramatically (-57%, probably because this year there was no Goldback tent and/or people around).
Though Crypto usage increased a lot (+140%).
Maybe I need to ask more vendors if they collect their stats to get a more general Porcfest overview.
Oh and most vendors accepted Monero. Majority of the few that didn't were onboarded by me. Like the Satoshi film makers, which you can now fund/support using XMR (https://linktr.ee/satoshi.movie)
Link to the original Nostr Post
Mini and Nano (in regards to P2Pool) are separate Mining pools. Think of them as a very big miner. The bigger the miner (i.e. more hashrate) the time to hit a block is lower and therefore he receives more rewards per time interval. The smaller pools (Mini/Nano) are for people with low hashrate devices so that the blockreward gets split somewhat equally between them.
For example if you would mine with a very low hashrate on your own, you'd maybe hit a block every 10 years. If you then combine your hashrate with other miners, that have a comparatively high hashrate to yours, the pool hits blocks much more often, but you won't get rewarded that often because you didn't participate that much. If you then join a pool with people with low hashrates, your mining pools hits blocks more often than you would by yourself, but not all too often. But it's also much more likely for you to get rewarded a piece of the block reward, as you contributed somewhat equally to the pool.
I hope this explanation helps with your understanding and I didn't butcher to many details ๐