One minute blocks that are of size ~1 KB (most of the blocks right now) double the likelihood of a miner getting a block.  Selfish mining only becomes a severe issue when blocksize becomes large.  Very few tx are going through the network right now, and few reorgs have taken place.

Additionally, the network hash rate is now 4655 H/s.  A Core i7 2600k does 14 H/s in Ubuntu 13.10 and would represent 0.3% of the network and thus get  4.32 blocks per day.  Solo mining is for sure not out of the picture.

My personal opinion is that I will abandon the fork if merge mining is added.  And then we can discuss a new fork.  Until then I don't think Monero will be taken over by another fork.

Ditto on this. If the intention wasn't to provide a clearweb launched alternative to BCN, then I don't see a reason for this fork to exist. BCN is competition and miners should make a choice.

Can you run Monero miner through TOR? If yes, what change would need to made to the bat file on the opening page? I'm using Windows.
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