^^ I think a good first step towards ocminers pool being in the OP would be it being made open source for peer review.
Don't spread FUD guys, the miner / pool combo is very simple, minimalistic and secure at once.
Let me explain why:
Currently, or before some time, the miner uses ccminer/spreadminer/sgminer and connects to his local wallet via an unencrypted connection i.e. everyone could read the privkey by listening to the connection, using wireshark or even by intercepting the data communication (Man-In-The-Middle)..
This is also a big security flaw for the coin if (private) miners are connecting to their wallet over the Internet i.e. their Rigs are not only local in their own network, as everyone could literally steal their private key.
One thing i've done is: I've encrypted all data between the pool and the miner, it uses a secure SSL connection, its the same kind of connection you use when you're doing online banking etc (https) so if you want to sniff on the data - you first have to break the SSL encryption and then you can steal that one session key :-)
The second thing is, "normal" miners don't work, I've simply tweaked them to refuse all kind of unencrypted connections and also added an extra certificate with some encryption so the pool recognizes exactly which version is used by whom. Thats why you need to use special versions of miners, they are simply of higher security.
So after all, I still don't get what you people are having against mining on a pool, there is and was pool mining on SPR all the time, just on private pools, now you have a public one and some start to FUD the hell out of it but don't even know what they are talking about, why ? :-)
Oh and btw.. These nice charts / graphics etc always implied there was NO pool mining and "decentralization" here .. Well.. I've mined LOTS of blocks with the pool already and it seems that noone ever realized.. So maybe your "decentralization" is not as good as it seems ... How else could I get away with it then all the time ?
Stop FUD'ing and keep concentrating on your Spread... err.. Masternodes and do something for the coin..
As long as a coin is mineable by anything like CCminer/Sgminer/Minerd you can start a pool for it.. Its just a matter of time and a matter of effort.. I had some spare time and nothing todo so I invested the time into this.. If this thing would be of more worth, already more pools would be there.
Oh and yes - I'll open source everything - absolutely. This is also no security hole as the certificates/passwords/encryption keys of the miners are of course NOT released...(no stealing) So everyone can compile their own miner, with his own keys/encryption for his own pools... Very simple, isn't it ?
Let me explain why:
Currently, or before some time, the miner uses ccminer/spreadminer/sgminer and connects to his local wallet via an unencrypted connection i.e. everyone could read the privkey by listening to the connection, using wireshark or even by intercepting the data communication (Man-In-The-Middle)..
This is also a big security flaw for the coin if (private) miners are connecting to their wallet over the Internet i.e. their Rigs are not only local in their own network, as everyone could literally steal their private key.
One thing i've done is: I've encrypted all data between the pool and the miner, it uses a secure SSL connection, its the same kind of connection you use when you're doing online banking etc (https) so if you want to sniff on the data - you first have to break the SSL encryption and then you can steal that one session key :-)
The second thing is, "normal" miners don't work, I've simply tweaked them to refuse all kind of unencrypted connections and also added an extra certificate with some encryption so the pool recognizes exactly which version is used by whom. Thats why you need to use special versions of miners, they are simply of higher security.
So after all, I still don't get what you people are having against mining on a pool, there is and was pool mining on SPR all the time, just on private pools, now you have a public one and some start to FUD the hell out of it but don't even know what they are talking about, why ? :-)
Oh and btw.. These nice charts / graphics etc always implied there was NO pool mining and "decentralization" here .. Well.. I've mined LOTS of blocks with the pool already and it seems that noone ever realized.. So maybe your "decentralization" is not as good as it seems ... How else could I get away with it then all the time ?
Stop FUD'ing and keep concentrating on your Spread... err.. Masternodes and do something for the coin..
As long as a coin is mineable by anything like CCminer/Sgminer/Minerd you can start a pool for it.. Its just a matter of time and a matter of effort.. I had some spare time and nothing todo so I invested the time into this.. If this thing would be of more worth, already more pools would be there.
Oh and yes - I'll open source everything - absolutely. This is also no security hole as the certificates/passwords/encryption keys of the miners are of course NOT released...(no stealing) So everyone can compile their own miner, with his own keys/encryption for his own pools... Very simple, isn't it ?
He was working on doing just that.....at some point
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