I didn't understand, why all start to mine kawpow. It uses more power. Eth algo gives more profit.
Like pbfarmer said, RVN looked significantly sexier just a few days ago. It's also a very fresh algo addition in TRM as well with the new release, and imho the first and only public progpow implementation for AMD so far that can compete with Team Green, especially for the 7nm gpus like VIIs and Navis.
Right now, and if you trust whattomine and with some ballpark nrs for $0.06/kwh, a VII doing 80 MH/s ethash at 180W and 40 MH/s kawpow at 300W gets you $1.26 net for kawpow and $1.04 net for plain ETH. Nicehash ethash says net $1.21, but imho it's hard to realize the full 100% of your hashrate on Nicehash due to rejects. Now, change those $0.06/kwh to $0.10/kwh and it most definitely shifts into ethash being the best choice. My point is more that there are situations where kawpow is a rational choice, but yeah, for most people there are other factors to take into account (power cost, heat/cooling etc).
Its not the 1st for AMD - there are at least 2 more before theirs!
Also, dont forget 2% TRM fee for their fresh algo addition compare to their ETH fee - probably more unless we actually see their source code!!
Yawn, you have nowhere else to FUD at the moment? My statement was the "first and only public AMD miner so far that can _compete with Team Green_", not the first working miner.
The 2% fee is the same as all other AMD miners for the same algo, of course with the exception of the open source reference miner. For this algo, we wrote our own machine-code generating compiler from scratch for the random math in progpow, we don't rely on any OpenCL compiler like everyone else. All code is written from scratch, not a single line "borrowed" from any reference implementation. That goes for both host- and gpu-side. We then chased every single f-ing cycle we could find in the algo. The results speak for themselves. We then set the same dev fee to the same level as everyone else despite probably spending 5x more time.
Regarding fake or hidden super hashrates, we have never lied about anything, there are other miners for that which we have shown already. There always seem to be a number of random posters with some hidden agenda appearing in our threads though claiming the same FUD bullshit about hidden fees. I wonder why.
All in all, you should run the miner you feel comfortable running. I truly understand that many people have issues with closed source software. That said, it's not very difficult to isolate your mining rigs from any sensitive data or network access to mitigate any worry about rogue "features". What you should stop doing is posting in every closed source miner thread saying they should give away what took them 100s of hours to produce at the price of your liking rather than what they decide justifies their effort. If you don't like closed source, don't use it. The dev fee is not your call to make, and I don't think you've ever ran any numbers to justify your whining about expensive fees, you're just an egocentric dude that think you're entitled to everything for free, otherwise you wouldn't be here posting in the first place.