Quote from: ConstantinGR on February 17, 2018, 09:24:52 AM

There are not many people out there who are good at making miners. Actually, there are very few.
For one of them to spend time to make a miner, there has to be a significant incentive (=reward).
Since there is no premining nor masternodes or bounties, getting a skilled person to program a new miner is not that easy.
Things were different in the beginning, when difficulty was very low so the first one to make a miner could easily mine a few thousand coins and this way get rewarded.
Zero also uses a modified zcash algorithm, so it is not as easy as well to get a working open source miner and adapt it. The fact that Optiminer is closed-source, makes things even more difficult.

So unless we can somehow personally help towards making a new miner, I guess we have to be patient and wait for the dev team to deliver the roadmap goals.

As for the fee, it's 1.5% in the newest Linux version and 2.5% in the older Windows version.
The fee can be bypassed by a switch, and I think that some pools already bypass it by blocking some ip (not confirmed).
But personally, I wouldn't care even if the fee was 5%, as long as mining zero keeps being quite profitable.

Quote from: JFry83 on February 17, 2018, 07:25:24 AM

Quote from: Ginzink on February 16, 2018, 06:14:20 AM

Quote from: busted7 on February 16, 2018, 02:49:36 AM

Hello all, I just found zero on WTM and was looking into mining it, but I'm concerned with the mining fees. As far as I can tell, there is a purpose made Optiminer that is the only way to mine this coin and has a built in 2.5% devfee in the newest version that's available for download. Is this the only way to mine this coin? Can the fee be edited like in other equihash miners?

For me a stable miner with good hashrate is more important than fee ranging 1-2,5%. If he made a now stable miner just for this one coin the fee is not outrageous. But if Zero completes its roadmap he wont have a monopoly for long and competition will reduce the fee

At least I don't think we're broken up. Why does it have to be like this? Monopoly shouldn't take longer than a month, maybe two-three. As for fee ranging, I have the same question. Can the fee be edited like in other equihash miners or not? I think it is very important. Without this, it is difficult to work. I'll have your answer. Thanks.

Good to see a likeminded miner. The developers of good miners needs to get paid, they dont run a charity to let us earn money Tongue

And stability is more important than the fee, up to a certain point.