Quote from: vitocorp on November 16, 2017, 06:09:25 PM

"Bitcoin Gold (BTG), the controversial cryptocurrency that launched to little fanfare with the idealistic goal of making bitcoin decentralized again by creating an ASIC-resilient mining ecosystem, wherein the gap between GPU/CPU mining and ASIC mining is smaller, keeps making headlines. This week a BTG developer, Martin Kuvandzhiev, allegedly hid a 0.5% fee into a BTG mining pool, sending the funds directly to his wallet."

Seen at: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-gold-controversy-continues-developer-allegedly-hides-mining-code-pool-shuts/

meh; i guess; it was tacky move to not put in readme and make it clear about donation. Technically i agree if he wrote the pool software a bit of donation is not awful thing; just a HUGE miss on not being extremely clear about it.

But the center ideal of "hiding" in opensource code is a bit absurd and it told your miner on output... Not like it was hidden at all in source; very clear. People and their drama was a bit real though.

First thing i do is grep code for donation lines; more of pool owners just downloading and running software without even looking at code. I am a bit concerned about irresponsible pool owners not even checking before putting a pool up...