Quote from: FalconFour on September 07, 2011, 08:26:45 AM

If you get paid, who the hell cares? Hash rate has been proven to be an inaccurate measure of actual work being done - I could hash the same numbers 200 million times a second and report 200Mhash/sec, but get no work done.

If you were hashing the same numbers 200 million times, then your miner would be useless. For all we know, this BitMinter miner could be doing just that.

How, exactly, is hash rate an inaccurate way to measure miner speed? Some miners may report inaccurate speeds, but the number of nonces you actually calculate over a given span of time directly relates to how much work is being done. What other metric is there, valid shares submitted? That's a nothing more than reflection of your hash rate, but with more variance because there is an unpredictable element.

Even if what you say were somehow accurate, DrHaribo is boasting that his miner is the fastest, so if that's not relevant then why even make this post?

Quote from: FalconFour on September 07, 2011, 08:26:45 AM

Personally, I don't give two craps about the accuracy of the speed; the "client that uses the most efficient method available" will be getting 212Mhash/sec on my card, and that's what this one does. Couldn't care less if it's accurate or what client it's using under the hood, as long as it's working properly, performing work, and paying a proportionate amount to the work being done, I'm happy to use it.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here... Are you trying to say that because it reports the same hash rate as some other client, its reported hash rate must be accurate?

Quote from: FalconFour on September 07, 2011, 08:26:45 AM

There's good and understandable incentive to keeping the source code private. I'm happy as it is until there becomes a reason to care to see the source code, but as it is now, the argument of speed reporting is so weak, it's hardly even worth doing more than laughing at the idea.

What, pray tell, is this good and accurate incentive to keep the source completely closed?

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