Re: [ANN] sgminer v5 - new unified multi-algorithm on-the-fly kernel switching miner
Humm. I'm not sure why I'm showing you this, maybe because I have something to brag and I like bragging.
I made some small optimizations on the Wolf's neoscrypt kernel. Now it does 430khs on 280x, 450khs on r9 290, and 260khs on r9 270.
I'm thinking what I should do with this. There's no point to release this to public as this would just make net hashrate rocket and everyone would still get the same profit.
Either release it for free, or bury it and never release it.
Optomizing the kernel and skyrocketing the hashrate by releasing it does nothing but allow cards to get what they should really be getting anyway.
Burying it changes nothing.
Selling it, simply makes people that can't afford to buy it because of the low ROI on GPU's angry with you, and the whales that can afford to spread the ROI across many GPU's get fatter.
Also makes devs poorer. Just saying.
Selling it responsibly can be good for everyone involved - don't be a dick and sell a 10x faster miner, release most of it slowly, and sell one that's around 2x faster. That way, the public isn't too far behind.
Program it into a miner and have the miner auto donate 1%.. Easy enough. Level playing field AND you get coin.
Don't you remem- oh, fuck it. I'm tired of teaching people crypto history.
Post a link, I'll figure it out, I'm good like that.
But finding that in the morass that is crypto, is damn near impossible.
It'd take several links, as it happened on BCT, but since you seem to care, I'll reiterate. There was a user named girino that made X11 50% faster, put in a 2% fee, and the community basically reverse engineered it, ripped out his code, and put it in sph-sgminer, which then got pulled into SGMiner. It is now called "darkcoin-mod" or "x11mod."
This community will do anything to not pay even a tiny fee - and anything can be reverse engineered, because if a computer can understand it, so can a human. So, the only thing you can do is make it very hard - but fuck up, and all your work will be for nothing. Having to risk that sucks.
I've seen the exact same thing in the sat hacking days... (they ended about a decade ago) And participated in it, and had my own VB code ripped off and sold without so much as a thank you.
The motto then was "I want my free TV no matter how much it costs", and people would pay $100 a month to beat a $75 a month bill. Fun times, I made 2 years worth of payments on my jeep from that, and consider myself very lucky to have gotten that much out of it.
Ahh, different name, different time, different life, same arguments.. lol