Lol, making fake users… you need help
Kano is not making fake users, I’m not a fake user, in fact Kano kicked me out of his pool over some silly argument so no, and I noticed you accuse everyone that disagrees with you to be a fake user. In every topic. Including stratum v2 ones.

This topic literally turned into a Kano vs Artemis fight from the beginning (again… you guys need help)
Was expecting it to be something more productive, but looking back now I see that personal feuds are more important here than anything.

None of what you said answers any of the questions I posed in the original post. My post covers communications with your team and your very own license that disputes everything you just said. I can only assume you 1) didn't read my post, or 2) know exactly what you're doing and giving a politician-type answer - not answering the question and just repeating numbers, as Kano said.

Again, why not simply make a feature in Braiins OS+ that SHOWS where your hash rate is going and how much? Wouldn't that make everything a lot simpler? Or is it because you take 10% dev fees (or more, who knows? its closed source) according to your own license that I had to spend 2 weeks getting out of your support team.

Thanks for the info, I understand that Braiins has benefits over stock and we are agreeing on the same things. I don’t believe Bitmain is a guardian angel but my purpose of the post is to hold Braiins to account as well. I have no doubt your claims are true, but it doesn’t exempt them from criticism. Braiins is a for-profit company, just like Bitmain is - we should see no difference between them.

Antbleed was a theoretical “exploit” and has never been spotted in the wild, Bitmain offered a explanation for it (which I take with a grain of salt), but compare it to the fact that there’s 1000s of devices sending hash rate to slushpool at a much higher rate than users know. I believe that is a much bigger issue and is more of a “virus”.

The license is not taken out of context, I provided the link and posted a specific part that doesn’t seem to make sense. I’d love if Braiins would clarify any of this.

My point of making this post was not to bash on Braiins OS as a firmware or it’s efficiency. It was to raise awareness about about Braiins’ misleading claims and deceptive practices. These are some pretty big issues ignored by the mining community as we tend to have a “every man for themselves” attitude - which is normal but personally I would try to stop people from using it, or at the very least, hope to get an answer from Braiins.

I believe a lot of people would care if its 10%.

Your second point brings me to my concern with Stratum V2 that I mentioned - the protocol Braiins is aggressively spearheading. This would not allow you to see any packets with Wireshark nor what they contain.

Not going to comment on what you believe is worth it or not, I believe it is and we can disagree on that.

Hi Dave, thanks for noticing that out. Regardless, it was gone since then, for an entire 6 months, and I made numerous attempts to tell them to correct it, they haven't. Regardless, I feel like the bigger issue here is a 10% dev fee. I have emails from their support (and they can confirm this) that they updated that page only a few days ago.

I disagree with your second point because a) I've seen a improvement in hash rate and power use with stock firmware and b) the aforementioned 10% dev fee.

Hi everyone,

I’d like to start by saying I gain nothing at all from posting this. I just want to let everyone know of this company's shady practices. If people call me a troll because I have one post, well, I can only say I warned you.

I was considering switching to Braiins OS+ recently, and came across the website. Here’s what their FAQ
says about the “dev fee”:


When you click on the License hyperlink it takes you to the License for their other product, Farm Proxy. (https://braiins.com/farm-proxy/license) That license makes no mention of a dev fee.


Now here is the interesting part.

I changed the URL to go to braiins(.)com/os/plus/license and there was a 404 error.
I proceeded to save this page on the Waybackmachine on archive.org (on July 26th) - you can check it out here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220726060453/braiins.com/os/plus/license

(I will explain later in this post why I saved it on archive.org)

I contacted their team about this, and here's what they had to say:



They did not correct the link. As of today, they still haven’t. 

I contacted them again, and asked if they could simply send a link to the real license, as they must’ve made one. I got a reply 3 or 4 days later on 2022-08-04, and it was exactly what I assumed they would do.

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So theres that. They changed the link that I saved earlier that goes to a 404 page to show the real license (apparently last updated on March 30, 2020, by the way). You can check it yourself, and here's what it says:



Now, what do we see from all this?

• Braiins only added the license for their site after I asked them for it
• The original link to the license on every page of their site still goes to https://braiins.com/farm-proxy/license as of today
• The license says the computing power at the "start of every session" is random and takes few seconds before a "correct percentage ... is assigned". Yet in the next sentence, it then says "the amount of computing power assigned at any given time to perform processing operations for Braiins may be as much as 10 % higher or lower"
• Braiins OS+ is closed source, and theres no way in the software to show how much is going to this "dev fee". It simply shows the total hash rate, always.

My advice for everyone is to use the stock Bitmain firmware (the company Artemis here seems to hate with a passion) because it gives the exact same hash rate as Braiins OS+. Yes, it really does. For example, on an Antminer S9 their new firmware gives several options, and one of them is to increase the hash rate by 2TH. I tried this myself, and my hash rate is 16.5th/s - the exact same I got with Braiins.

I wish people here would stop blindly trusting shady firmwares without reading into things and start asking questions. What is a dev fee? Where can we see it? Why is the link for their license going to a different product?

In my opinion, this is a huge issue and a stain on Braiins. I can no longer trust them, I can no longer support the Stratum V2 that they are spearheading since it seems like an obvious way to encrypt data from their dev fee to their server (as much as up to 10%) without anyone noticing.

You are assuming a whole lot based on the fact that I just didn’t make an account here. I’d expect this from any other forum or person, but apparently on Bitcointalk.org a new user cannot talk about Bitcoin.

It seems like the BTC price drop has gotten you cranky.

Again, I appreciate everything you’ve done but I know what it’s like to create something and deal with the everyday users — it gets frustrating, you take out your frustration on people who you just assume should know better. I’ve made this error and continue to make it and am merely offering some humble advice.

I also was not aware that my post count means anything, I’ve been a part of this community since 2010 and I’ve simply never had anything meaningful to say until now. I think you can do that as well.

Jesus, dude. The man wasn’t trying to “game” anything, he was just wondering what the effect would be to set a higher diff for his old miners.

We are all using your program, on a pool you made. What do you mean “think about it”? Not only that, but as a developer you surely know that everyone wouldn’t be doing something if you had not created it and put it out for the community. I appreciate the work you’ve done but if you’re going to do create things for people to use and then go on to engage in conversation with them, they deserve better replies (even if you’ve answered his question 100 times before)