Bitminter is a great pool. I didn't know that it has been running for almost over 9 years as i was a miner during 2013 to 2014 and the pools were so few and most of them changed their brand name or shut down.
Fortunately, they have been in the business for 9 years. And they really survived, however, with the recent halving, they went out of business.
Results of recent halving started to appear on surface. After this news, i expect many other small mining businesses will follow Bitminter as they can't resist.
I think about small miners who use this pool and what they have as alternatives as they can't even sell their old mining stuff at a good price.
Let's wait and see what will happen next...
There could be more mid-tier mining pool that will go out of business because it's no longer profitable to mine bitcoin with old mining gear. And as I have said, this is the economics of bitcoin mining, you need to readjust if you want to stay in business for many years.