Ah here we go again with the name calling and temper tantrums.
I decided what's fair for ME, don't like it? Well tough cookies, suck it up buttercup.

I'm not trying to justify anything, not peddling anything. I replied to the OP, it wasn't really an invitation for trolling but keep it up.

cK'

Your argument is lame for several reasons. In the big picture, CM and all mining software providers, provides a service:

0) For miners, the mining software is a mission critical requirement. Even with free open source software there is a maintaining cost.

1) If you bother to read any of the CM miner threads, CM frequently incorporates suggested user changes/requirements. In a normal S/W development effort this would require some sort of costed out change order(s).

2) Unlike the real world, you don't pay extra if the mining software you need is ported to a newly released card.

3) It's in CM's financial interest to keep the mining software competitive with what is offered to large commercial installations.

4) I can't even imagine what the hourly cost would be to contract out to this software development to someone who needs coding + GPU assembly language + crypto coin programming experience.

5) People are already paying pools for providing a service as well as companies such as nicehash.

6) The cost of going from BTC to fiat is something that you really should be complaining about.

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I'm not a big fan of this whole software as a service, it's the modern version of rent-seeking. Basically getting paid for breathing instead of just selling the software for a fixed upfront price.

As it is now, everybody is rent-seeking from miners. In addition to the upfront cost of the mining equipment and the running costs in electricity _AND_ pool fees, miner devs now also want in on it. You guys are aware that without miners there's no PoW coins, right? So either sell your software for an upfront price or don't whine if people work around it. (btw, I'm not a freeloader, I paid fees for months before I decided it was enough)

I'm not saying CM did a bad job or that he doesn't deserve fair compensation for his work, just some people have a weird interpretation of fair.

cK'

Ah so an insult is no longer an insult if you preface it with "You sound like a ...", good to know.

But really, I'm done with you, this is not a discussion, this is you throwing a fit and calling me names.
You don't like me, I don't like you, 'nuff said.

cK'

I am not outraged at all and to be honest didn't even know about any previous copyright disputes.

Calling me names really isn't nice, you should be careful not to get banned.
But go on with your hissy-fit, it is quite amusing to me. Maybe I will release my proxy with a 0.5% fee just to make you wet your pants even more.

cK'

Oh get off your high horse. I do what I want, when I want and how I want. If you want to talk morals, Claymore took OPEN SOURCE miners, tweaked them a little and released them as closed-source. Depending on the licenses of the original works it might not even be legal for him to release it without the source and without containing any copyright notices of the original works he made a derivate of. Where's your outrage there?

cK'

You have several options.

* Pay the dev fee and use it at 100%
* Use a miner without devfee
* Use the commandline switch to disable the devfee and lose some % optimization
* Use a little transparent proxy to change the devfee destination to your own addresses.

I'll probably get a shitstorm for this, but I use option 4.
2% (or more) is just overkill. One-time fee, sure, but a constant 2%?! Hell no.

cK'

That is not the point, the point is that the miner actually crashed, so no mining on fallback servers either.

cK'

Happened to me too, and judging by flypool statistics we're not the only ones either.
Massive loss of hashpower around 07:00am (GMT+1)

cK'

S1 minimum order quantity 2, really? Lame Bitmain, lame.

'nuff said.

It's on and off cryptsy because it gets 51%'ed every other day.

cK'

I don't think this time it's auto-forked. Smells like some smart-asses decided to 51% the coin.

cK'

Well the code is open source. We don't really need nzdude and his "dev" to fix it. Wouldn't be the first time (nor the last time) a coin gets taken over by a group of volunteers when the original team couldn't get their heads out of their a** and just disappeared.

cK'

And re-delisted 3 days ago.

cK'

Nobody cares. We want news from nzdude (or his dev) about fixing the coin that is STILL in a broken state.

cK'

There, there, no reason to scream I just wish we'd get a heads up on a fixed client (and I don't mean another checkpoint :p).

cK'

And as predicted here we go again. Difficulty stuck at 95.6k, no more retargets after blocks. Next fork?

Only getting rejects now:

2013-09-07 12:58:14,940 INFO interfaces # Block 000000009c0ff2b6c21de4527c035fcc2a9568fd357494c145bd94d3b76e773e REJECTED
2013-09-07 13:21:49,170 INFO interfaces # Block 0000000043b1ef96d5bf17010c6949d091bd815a2f58f12e5eae1e1440ad0ff3 REJECTED
2013-09-07 13:27:13,884 INFO interfaces # Block 00000000083c0af4fd0c4cf3d24c431c26af686c6f2fe7688140a125f347104f REJECTED
2013-09-07 13:58:46,076 INFO interfaces # Block 000000004b80efcdbcbeceb58ab436bad71555560c88cfe48887d8328bd20d22 REJECTED


cK'

For all the people with crashes, dll issues aside, I found that deleting the generated .bin files, setting "save_binaries no" in reaper.conf and worksize to 256 in primecoin.conf reduces crashes to a minimum, at least on my system.

YMMV

cK'

Probably one of those idiotic "profit switching" pools. But then again there is no profit as the coin is not traded anywhere until PoS generation is fixed. Just checkpointing every other fork will not cut it. I wonder how long the "dev" will be on vacation. (my guess is forever)

cK'

The StarCoin blockchain is broken at this point, god knows what happened to your transaction, probably it sits in a broken PoS block.

cK'

Are you sure about that? Transactions all stay at 0 confirmations for me, which would make sense as apparently the generated PoS blocks are invalid.

cK'