This is probably one of the best reasons we should switch the main client to a more restrictive license, that wouldn't allow to redistribute a closed source client based on the original client.
Anyway am I the only one who's wondering if the reported performance is actually what is going on under the hood? It doesn't take a lot of effort to just multiply the real number of khash/s by a constant factor, which would urge people to use the modified client which in turn sends part of the coins to the author, without providing actually any benefits?
Has anyone verfied the odds of generating coins with the theoretical number [1]?
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http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.phpIn my closed test network experiment with the client the speeds did seem to be on par with what should have been seen. The difficulty was 1 and I khashed @ a rate of ~28500KHPS. I found that I should be seeing a block roughly 7 minutes with a 95% probability. I was seeing them within this time frame regularly. It seems to me to be working but, I have not gotten to put it to much use on the public network as of yet. I am going to start running it full tilt on the public network now to see what happens.