Re: Official FutureBit Apollo BTC Software/Image and Support thread
If our software can submit a valid share to a pool, it can also find a valid block and thats all the proof you need.
But can is too little here, it has to.
You can ask slush pool and Genesis mining about that stuff
So here my question again:
Why is the backend code not published under an open source license?
I mean its BTC, small nice community project...
Do not trust, verify!
I mean its BTC, small nice community project...
Do not trust, verify!
I like the product. Bring mining back to small people, decentralized, quiet etc. Would be happy to support the project and preorder.
But for sure I will not buy a closed source miner, which has never shown that it can find blocks.
Especially not if it is to be used for solomining. (Whether this is right for the target group "are first time miners" is another question.)
I really don't see any understandable reason not to publish the code.
If I could I would. The backend software runs Exahashes worth of hashrate, and finds BTC blocks everyday. Of course you have to take my word for it, and I wish you didn't but I think I have built enough reputation around here that im not some bad actor. Unfortunately to be able to provide a product like this I had to make some compromises I did not want, but we weighed those to be worth being able to get a product like this out to market.
Of course the more successful this product is, the less compromises we have to make...would love to port the firmware over to cgminer and hopefully we can get there soon.