According to @shishirpai, Nocturne Midnight Miner v2.0.0 adds an --optimal flag that mines older challenges at lower difficulty, creating a 10.5-hour window to mine roughly 2x more NIGHT than most other miners (source: @shishirpai). The network is approaching 3,000 total machines with aggregate hashrate around 70 million hashes per second and has grown more than 10x since launch (source: @shishirpai). A cumulative 10 million NIGHT has been distributed to date, underscoring active emission during this period (source: @shishirpai).