Re: [ANN] Bminer: a fast Equihash miner for CUDA GPUs (5.3.0)
After readings 41 pages of posts, I have decide to not use bminer and go back to dstm 0.5.8 for the following reasons:
1. The management API does not include pool information. I change pools from time to time based on profit/difficulty. I have a app that monitors the management API and reminds me which coin I am mining. Every other mining software I have encountered includes this. Not knowing what coin I am mining is a deal breaker.
2. There is a private connection to bmine every 10-15 minutes. Too often, unknown, closed source. This a major security risk for me. I could spent the time to hack into this. But there is not point until #1 is addressed.
3. The actual hashrate is in question. The tests so far all have some minor flaws to be conclusive. I not blaming the person doing the test. It just doesn't hold up to statistical rigor. I could devise and run a test that will provide evident supporting my claims (including margin of error), but no point for me until #1 is addressed.
4. 2% devfee seems high. A 1% to 1.5% would be more enticing. But if I was inclined to investigate #2, I would also do a man-in-the-middle attack and redirect the devfee to my wallet
. I have no interest in doing this. But there is a difference between supporting the devs and being raped by them.
5. To many newbies posting here (including myself) makes it fell like a scam. Hey, Spiralx, what do you call a person who buys a 7x1070 Ti and a 6x1060 (3gb) rig, never posts anything about "what to mine?", "what software to use?", "how to make a wallet work?", no support questions, no opinions about coins/hardware, an instant expert on his large hardware investment, then makes only 2 posts? Oh yeah, both posts are praising biminer?
1. The management API does not include pool information. I change pools from time to time based on profit/difficulty. I have a app that monitors the management API and reminds me which coin I am mining. Every other mining software I have encountered includes this. Not knowing what coin I am mining is a deal breaker.
2. There is a private connection to bmine every 10-15 minutes. Too often, unknown, closed source. This a major security risk for me. I could spent the time to hack into this. But there is not point until #1 is addressed.
3. The actual hashrate is in question. The tests so far all have some minor flaws to be conclusive. I not blaming the person doing the test. It just doesn't hold up to statistical rigor. I could devise and run a test that will provide evident supporting my claims (including margin of error), but no point for me until #1 is addressed.
4. 2% devfee seems high. A 1% to 1.5% would be more enticing. But if I was inclined to investigate #2, I would also do a man-in-the-middle attack and redirect the devfee to my wallet
. I have no interest in doing this. But there is a difference between supporting the devs and being raped by them.5. To many newbies posting here (including myself) makes it fell like a scam. Hey, Spiralx, what do you call a person who buys a 7x1070 Ti and a 6x1060 (3gb) rig, never posts anything about "what to mine?", "what software to use?", "how to make a wallet work?", no support questions, no opinions about coins/hardware, an instant expert on his large hardware investment, then makes only 2 posts? Oh yeah, both posts are praising biminer?