Over 70 % of new blocks right now are being found on pools, and not on individual solo miners. (bitcoinmagazine.com)
«Fog computing with its greater innate potential, is widening the scope of what cloud computing can achieve by bringing solo miners, private datacenters, public clouds, and IoT into the network. (the-blockchain.com)
It is appealing both for Bitcoin (which has dominated by large mining farms) as well as for other cryptocurrencies like Monero and ZCash (which have many more solo miners). (smartpool.io)