Quote from: pooya87 on Today at 04:34:59 AM

Quote from: NotATether on August 24, 2021, 04:41:18 PM

@WanderingPhilospher We should probably keep 2% of the remaining funds after the privkey finder bounty is accounted for so that we have (at least a little) funding for maintaining projects like this.

Well this is a closed source .exe file and the fact that it is uploaded to github doesn't mean it is safe to run. OP might as well be keeping 100% of any puzzle that the users may solve or worse the file could be doing a similar thing to the other puzzle solver (Large Bitcoin Collider) and execute any arbitrary scripts on users computers to do whatever... Wink

Alright, to touch on your comments more. I get what you are saying and it is what it is. But I know you are an intelligent person pooya, and if you would just think about things regarding this thread and the nature of the pool, I would hope you would understand why it has to be closed source. There are details in the first post that elude to the "why" if you read it closely.

Trust is a serious thing. It is earned, I get that. But that works both ways. Why would I trust you or NotATether with the source code? Because maybe if you compile it people will be more receptive because you have x number of merit? Nah. Who's to say you wouldn't show it or give it to someone? Or who says you won't take the code and tweak it for your own benefit?

Trust...maybe I can put my own spin on that. People who do join the pool can trust and know that there is only one person who has the source code and it will not get passed from person to person, and maybe they can rest easier knowing that you or someone else who I could possibly give the code to, didn't pass it on to their friend, and their friends friend, etc. and one of those persons manipulated the code for their own benefit.

The bottom line, I am the only one with the source code. I have tried to think of every angle to keep someone from manipulating the pool and taking away from people who are actually participating in the pool.

Again, it's not about the money for me. It's about the concept. About doing something that mostly everyone says can't be done or will take a long time.

I have people who will vouch for me when it comes to being genuine. I send people eth/BTC just for helping out with things; even though they didn't expect it, because I know time is precious for everybody. Just last night, I tried to send a brilliant programmer some eth just for chatting with me for 30 minutes or so about how their particular program works and why they felt another program tasked the CPU more than this other one...just for sharing their thoughts and listening to mine. So yeah, it's not about the money for me. As Doc Holliday said, "It's about the reckoning." lol

People will make a choice to join the pool and run the program, or they won't. But I at least hope they understand why it has to be closed source and won't trust me any less just because a few people with a lot of merit say I might as well keep it all, or lump me in with some individual from another project, etc.