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Re: [ANN] [GRS] GroestlCoin: Democratizing Mining | AES Accelerated | Ultimate PoW
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on 31/05/2014, 15:15:01 UTC

Black hat thinking here:

  • That's a paid app. The lite version has an annoying ad on top of the app the whole time, clearly contradicting Google's guidelines for Ads.
  • The lite version only tells you it is mining. Doesn't show hashrate, doesn't show sharerate... nothing, it could be just burning cycles with no-ops just for you to watch the annoying ad.
  • The lite version only runs when on foreground, unproffesional.
  • And worse than anything else, the app is closed source. I can't for the life of me support a closed source miner, they could be mining on their own address and you won't even know, because they aren't telling you your hashrate.

I'm deeply interested in this coin, but this miner isn't what we need right now. Uninstalled right away. And i have 3 android devices here screaming to mine.

Btw, i'm working on services paid with this coin. Even my serious business will start accepting GRS soon, i've already done the backend and have a nice frontend. I think we need more merchants accepting this coin.

I opened the app and checked for anything malicious and it is not present!
every program on android has a file extension of  "" *.apk"
changing the extension to zip allows you to read every byte of source code in the prog.
yes there could be many changes to this app but its a damn good start ........ as everyone has started somewhere.
with googles adb "open source" it allows anyone to inspect modify and change anything within the android market and everything is open! nothing is closed source!
pay if you don't want to spend the time recoding it yourself