This investard epidemic must be brought to a stop.
Please read about and/or have your say at our ongoing public investigation into cryptsy. It is high time that we include these "optimized" shitalgo kernels (and their effects on the crypto eco system).
CRYPTSY stopping withdraw locking accounts without notifying users! Class Action
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/cryptsy-stopping-withdraw-locking-accounts-without-notifying-users-class-action-1173703
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hmmm what does cryptsy have to do with optimized kernels?
maybe it's just my take, but I see private kernels as a minor and unavoidable issue.
Unavoidable because you can't stop a company from hiring a dev and make optimised kernels.
Minor because there are much bigger issues: people with access to free or almost free electricity, ASIC chips which aren't sold to the public or at too high prices, etc.
Craptsy is at the core and/or one of the key players behind these shitclones and their cpu only/asic resistant shitalgos.
If you created a mining algo and coin would you :
a- launch and risk that someone else will figure it out before you do and secretly use or release the optimized kernel
or
b- launch with a public kernel and a private/insider one, thus eliminating any chance that scenario "a" can happen