No one has released anything new in close to six months or so it seems. Everything that has been talked about here is old hat or the same epeen wars. Where you talk about how fast your super optimized miner is you only sell to a handful of really rich individuals.

Biggest improvement has come from Nicehash returning dividends with their paid bounty program, but that only applies to AMD.

I joined the Nvidia mining community because it was more open and forthright then AMD mining. That seems to have died out and turned back into the same shit as the AMD community. Nothing improves or changes. I still end up going back and mining Neoscrypt with ancient miners (that are definitely outdated). Donating doesn't do anything. There aren't any fund drives or anything either (or a way for me as a miner to buy a kernel). Everything has completely stagnated, which is what happened about six months before I had to stop mining with AMD hardware.

I'm sure that's not the case for big mining farms who employee developers.

Altcoin mining definitely needs a marketplace for selling kernels and miners.