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Board Mining software (miners)
Re: BitMinter miner (FAST, cool GUI, zero installation, Windows/Linux/Mac)
by
FalconFour
on 07/09/2011, 08:26:45 UTC
I don't see any source links. is your miner open-source? if not, how is anyone to know that the reported speeds, apparently showing it to be the fastest miner in existence, are accurate (other than possibly decompiling your java code, I suppose)?

-aldiyen

If you get paid, who the hell cares? Hash rate has been proven to be an inaccurate measure of actual work being done - I could hash the same numbers 200 million times a second and report 200Mhash/sec, but get no work done. Personally, I don't give two craps about the accuracy of the speed; the "client that uses the most efficient method available" will be getting 212Mhash/sec on my card, and that's what this one does. Couldn't care less if it's accurate or what client it's using under the hood, as long as it's working properly, performing work, and paying a proportionate amount to the work being done, I'm happy to use it.

There's good and understandable incentive to keeping the source code private. I'm happy as it is until there becomes a reason to care to see the source code, but as it is now, the argument of speed reporting is so weak, it's hardly even worth doing more than laughing at the idea.