Now why would the devs have a private optimized miner for the coin when we know they get a portion of everycoin mined plus a portion of whatever is sold on exchanges. If you want an optimized miner real badly talk to wolf0 he's selling an AMD optimized sgminer kernel for 0.25 btc a piece
I know someone who has been unusually quiet in these forums lately who could have made a play with
private Cuda miners. But I agree AWS users were the big winners.
I'm just speculating because I don't know how much lyra2 is left in Cuda after Nanashi doubled the
performance. I think the nature of the algo is the biggest impediment to GPU performance.
I've really enjoyed some of the new CPU algo development recently with multiple devs contributing to
optimize in the open. It seems to have motivated some others to give it a try. It's nice to see continued
interest in CPU mining.
My contribution is coming soon, maybe a little late but still significant.
Thanks for yours.
AFAIK Nanashi code was used in the current miner of djm34 too. Let's say it's quite optimized and I don't think another further crazy optimization (50-100%) could be done soon. But I might be wrong. Thanks for your cpuminer, joblo.