On the fence about this. I liked the original post format, was entertaining, but am a little gun shy of actually downloading. If this is true and a lot of people are it would definitely be worth the dev fee.
Sure, it would, but sometimes people do stuff just to be nice. SGMiner-GM was released with our optimized Ethereum kernel, and we didn't slap a devfee in that.
Not everyone in the world is out to fuck you over.
Does SGMiner-GM work in cuda? I used to use it with my AMD R9 290s and loved that it was better hash-rate than Claymore for free.
Lately I use ethminer with my 1060/70/80s but it seems less stable than Claymore unfortunately. It's fine in ethos with my 5 x 1070 rig but my other rig which is 3 x 1060, 1 x 1070 and 1 x 1080 (using the pill of course) ethminer seems to crash pretty often. Claymore crashes too but then it just automatically recovers and starts mining again.
Any recommendations for the best (free) Ethereum miner for Nvidia 10xx cards?