Quote from: Eliovp on June 20, 2017, 03:31:04 PM

This is all nice and all, but there are SO many others out there that deserve a shitload of credit/donations as well.

I'll tell you why and give a few examples.

There are many others that have written free software for everyone to use and to benefit from and they have gotten almost nothing in fee's/donations in return. (sgminer(original dev stopped working on it (afaik), ccminer, silentarmy(stopped it because of the same reasons, etc...)

Those guys mostly do this outside of their full-time working hours. In other words, they offer up their free time to do this as well.

They don't have 10k plus posts because they don't have time to constantly browse the forums or to write posts.
They spend that little bit of free time they have on software that benefits the entire mining community.

Again, they deserve the credit they do and never get.

It's all a bit more on the side now because of software like Claymore (everyone uses it and he gets paid royally for it).

I shared my Nano roms a long time ago, a lot of "thank you's", which i appreciate a lot, but those don't pay my bills.

Then i shared the copy-strap method --> http://cryptomining-blog.com/8228-modify-the-bios-of-reference-radeon-rx-480-for-faster-ethereum-hashrate/
a year ago. Almost every single AMD card owner is using that.
I know, eventually someone else would have figured this out and it would have been out there anyway, but still...

I don't think i ever got a thank you for that.

Therefore, i have started to charge for custom vbios work a while ago as well, because i figured, i'm not going to do this again, share faster straps, and have an exploded inbox of questions..
Nah, sorry.

It's a human thing. Grab/take profit as much as possible and be greedy while you're at it..

I even now get an avarage of 20PM's per day. Yeah, only here.... Around 30 on Ethereum forums and i'm not going to list the other forums..
Takes a shitload of time to answer all of them, i still answer them all though

Anyhow. Again, very nice and all, but think about the others out there as well.

Oh, just to be clear, this is not a post of me secretely asking for donations.

Greetings!

Wow you came up with that method for copying straps? thats so cool, i use that and I didn't even know i should have been thanking you. So thank you for helping me and the community!