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Board Mining
Re: Merged mining now live
by
teukon
on 12/10/2011, 12:04:31 UTC
You are in the minority because you do not recognize deception/most probably a fraud when you see it. When you agree to do one thing and someone does something else with that then you were at the least deceived and if they gained financially then you were defrauded of what you should have gotten.

Bitcoin pools agree to use the hashes you submit to generate Bitcoin blocks and, in exchange, they send you Bitcoins.  What else the pool does with this hash is irrelevant to this agreement.  They could publish an article about Bitcoin containing one of the hashes you submitted as an example and make a lot of money from this publication.  By what you have said I'm guessing you would feel entitled to some of this profit.  The only way I can make sense of that is if you somehow feel that you "own" the hashes you submit to the pool!  This is, of course, ridiculous.

Your questions at the end HELL yeah I would I did not agree in that case to them taking my work and making money off it. You seem to have a very selective morality it is ok to steal peoples shit as long as they don't know your doing it, yeah right I'll get right on that.

They are not taking your work; you are offering it in exchange for bitcoins.  Do you actually claim to own the primes that you find?  I defend your right to discover a new prime and keep it a secret from the world but not your right to make it common knowledge and require royalties to be paid to you for its use.  The prime itself does not constitute art so not even intellectual property laws will give you this.

Are there others out there that actually believe that they can own a hash or a prime in this way?  Do people actually believe that one could own a logical fact such that it would be immoral for two other people to exchange this information with one another without the owner's consent!?