Can someone write a comprehensive post stating what the current red flags are about this bminer?
Recently, a ZCash forum was deleted that showed damning benchmarks that indicated the bminer hashrate log was clearly lying (reporting inflated hashrates, or lying about the dev fee).
Is it still the consensus that Bminer inflates hash-rates, and in actuality is no faster than DSTM?
Have other suspicious things been found about bminer? Sounds like people have found suspicious outgoing network activity from bminer?
There are almost fifty pages of posts about this, and its very difficult given this website's structure to go through them. If someone could write a comprehensive status report about this miner, it would surely make the world a better place.
Currently, all my gpus are running DSTM. If someone has real benchmarks (not console printouts, plebs..) comparing current performance of equihash miners that would be great.
Recently, a ZCash forum was deleted that showed damning benchmarks that indicated the bminer hashrate log was clearly lying (reporting inflated hashrates, or lying about the dev fee).
Is it still the consensus that Bminer inflates hash-rates, and in actuality is no faster than DSTM?
Have other suspicious things been found about bminer? Sounds like people have found suspicious outgoing network activity from bminer?
There are almost fifty pages of posts about this, and its very difficult given this website's structure to go through them. If someone could write a comprehensive status report about this miner, it would surely make the world a better place.
Currently, all my gpus are running DSTM. If someone has real benchmarks (not console printouts, plebs..) comparing current performance of equihash miners that would be great.
you'll have to start reading the last 15 pages to see what people have been complaining about. theres been several people who have tried to compare dstm and bminer with 24+ hour runs but to be truly accurate you need to run them during the same time period.
most common things you'll see in this thread are:
over reported hashrate...by a lot. most of the reported hashrate on pool side from any benchmark between dstm and bminer are very close. but bminer has 3%+ reported hashrate on the console. on the consoles for the rig i tested it on (6x 1070ti's) i get 3065 sol/s with dstm and 3170 sol/s with bminer. i've let each miner run for 1 week to see how much variance in hashrate i get at flypool and its really a toss up. bminers reported additional 105 sol/s should have some impact on pool side, which it does not seem to. thats obvioiusly not a valid comparison so i haven't posted anything about it, but imo i don't see any effect of bminers higher reported hashrate.
bminer has a private connection that connects to his server for "runtime and licensing information"... hes purposefully avoiding giving us a straight answer on it, and although we've all bitched about it, doesn't seem like he will remove it. its more important to him to have security to get his dev fee than to be upfront about the private connection. no other miners use a private connection like this. theres no reason for anyone to use bminer while it exists especially if theres no true performance gain (not exaggerated hashrates)
there is a bug someone reported that the console is showing that his rig was hashing away just fine but on the pool side there was 0 hashrate. so for whatever reason, lost connection to the pool but somehow was still hashing away.
the perks of bminer are that you aren't giving 2% dev fee to dstm lol. bminer does seem to be lighter on cpu usage.
