I'm not hiding behind a cloak of anonymity. I'm a professional, I'm public about this, and I'm posting under my real name.
Just in case, one of reasons for somewhat strange architecture of my own miner were tax laws, I wanted to receive royalties and to avoid being money transmitter or service provider. And your IRS can be much more hostile than tax authorities here in Russia 
Oh yes. :-) That's the other reason I'd rather just get paid up front. I can call it consulting income, I know how to pay taxes on it, and life is simple.
The good news: I'm in discussions with bytemaster at protoshares about them sponsoring the release. Have others had good experiences dealing with them and their bounties?
-Dave
Bytemaster and team have been nothing but up front and honest with their whole project.
Is the miner going to use OpenCL or be cuda specific?
It's CUDA specific. Should be straightforward for someone to take the idea and port to OpenCL, though. I just like CUDA. :-)