This is bullshit. Hardfork this and fix this before people start abandoning this coin. I'm ready to dump all my coins and move on and I'm not alone. A closed source miner kept private getting a majority of all the coins. Come on.
we're mining 5000-7000 coins a dayhttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=167229.msg7320842#msg7320842I have nothing bad to say about the dev of the miner because I would probably do the same. But I wouldn't be surprised if people called for changes either.
Two thoughts:
(a) I think we should be careful about letting one person's claims of mining wreak havoc with the coin. I can tell you with great certainty that neither Christian or anyone else GPU-mined *all* the coins yesterday. At 1.3mh, 100 instances on EC2 yielded about 1300 BBR yesterday while the diff was under 140.
The diff is too high now, but I had 100 instances running for about 24 hours. It cost me about $750. I sold 650 BBR at .002 to cover the cost and am sitting on the rest. If you'd like to buy them, they're listed for .004...

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I know from watching the diff very carefully that I'm not the only one who does this -- the diff and price are in lock-step too closely. I realize it may not be popular to cloud mine, but I'm not going to be apologetic about not asking my family if they mind me putting a datacenter in the basement.
(b) Christian has an offer open to release his miner if there's a stratum-compatible way for him to get ccminer working.
I'll contribute 100 BBR to the bounty for someone getting stratum working (pool + miner integrated). I'm planning on working towards that, but I only have a certain amount of time I can spend on crypto each day, and I have some things I want to fix with simpleminer first. If someone else jumps on it and gets stratum working first, that would be awesome -- I promise, you won't be stepping on my toes at all. I'd much rather play with optimizing the miner than implementing json rpc.
The question seems to be if it's better to have GPU miner than a hardfork and the associated uncertainty (will someone make another GPU miner after the hardfork? etc.)