Just because you wrote some codes doesn't entitle you peoples time, money, energy and property. Most miners would be happy to pay him 100$ for the miner. But NO he wants a piece of your pie. Your property which you spent who knows how much time and energy to get up and running and this guys wants a piece of it just for mining software. Hmmm, lets say you buy a house and I and tell you that Im giving away solar panels FOR FREE!. BUT i get to use your house 2 days out of the month for whatever I like. Any damages over time or issues you'll have to deal with. But I get to claim whats yours 2% of the month. Sound like a good deal to you?
Of course not. That's stupid. Id rather just buy the damn panels.
But ooohh you don't have that option? You want to use a easier miner you gotta give up a portion.
It's not fair for people to steal others works, this is true. It's also not fair to force people to give up a part of what they own just so they can use a few lines of code that probably took no longer then a few months (if that) to create. Yet he wants a piece of your pie for ever and ever and every. Or you could just not use it. Hmmm.
Claymore deserves to get jacked. He doesn't want to play fair why would the rest of the world?
You can use nofee option if you want to all pieces of pie.
"Attempts to cheat and remove dev fee will cause a bit slower mining speed (same as "-nofee 1") though miner will show same hashrate."
So I guess you'll get around the same payout but without supporting the dev for his work.
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