Wow, thanks. Really. I think you're seriously only the second person in this thread that sees I came here to offer them some help and advice - the miner is really beside the point, here to prove I'm not some jackass without a clue wasting their time. And sure, I expected there to be some people irked that I won't release what I have so far, and of course people like BlockaFett (honestly, I'm starting to feel bad - guy legitimately seems like he may be learning disabled or something; he saw that he didn't have anything to argue back with, he just posted that picture, which truly reminds me of chess with a six-year-old: when they realize they're going to lose, they just throw the board.) About the lack of memory usage, you were 100% correct, and I went into that in detail here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/anndash-dash-dashorg-first-self-funding-self-governing-crypto-currency-421615If you mean that you thought 2x speed was the max, not the min - no. I believe your incorrect assumption was that the code then was using 51% of the GPU in an optimal fashion. In reality, it not only wasn't doing that, it was actually wasting more cycles than it actually used. I strongly suspect this is still the case. About people's reactions... were I to generalize, I would say most of the haters are likely typical miners: they want something for nothing, they value the change in their couch cushions more than developers' time, and if you give them the smallest opportunity, they will take everything you offer, use it to profit, and if they saw you homeless outside in an alley when it was 20 below outside after all of that, I would bet money 90% or more of them wouldn't bother to give you a fucking warm coffee. The people outright rejecting it I would put into one of two categories: the first being the dedicated fangirls who will react violently to any suggestion their beloved coin isn't perfect (real or perceived) - which would be the ones throwing personal insults, and those that have bought into DRK so hard that they don't want to consider there's any issues - more likely to simply disbelieve. Rational people... looks like few of those have showed up so far - but then again, it really hasn't been long. I HOPE there's some more rational DRK supporters, because if there's not, I just wasted a lot of damned time.
I totally understand where you're coming from on your points, but my problem is (and I am not keeping up with the thread, hence this being an older post) that I don't know what you suggest we do? I mean, I think you are saying we should fund someone to make our miner more efficient, yes that would be nice. But on the other hand, you are a person who did this work, but you do not want to sell your work. Hence we're stuck with waiting for someone who wants to do it. I suppose we should put together a bounty, again, and see if someone claims it, but then we have to say something like "you have to make it xxx% more effective". Just so you know,
we have paid bounties on the GPU miner in the past. To make one, and then to improve it. It's not like we haven't gone down that road. Now most of us are way beyond being able to participate effectively as miners as it takes more than a few regular machines with gaming cards, it takes dedicated equipment to make it worth the electricity. So the "crowd" here is no longer very interested in such things. Miners, of course, should be interested, but they probably already also have updated software??? I have no idea.
Anyway, I have given up mining for DRK, and kind of feel bad about that. I'm on xpool for my antminer, as if that'll get me to a dark, LOL. But that computer runs our family server anyway, so why not. Anyway, the main point is, I think you were saying a developer or early adopters ought to pay for upgraded miners, and we actually did that. How are we to know how well the job was done? Or how skilled the person who stepped up to he plate is? In the end, at this point, anyone that can make improvements will now need to sell their miner or use it, IMO. I just don't see us being successful for the 3/4+ time with another crowd sourcing for miner improvements when so many other projects are also competing for funds. I might be wrong though?? But it might be easier to get dedicated miners to crowd fund this, ones from all the combined algo cryptos?
I don't know. I do understand that we want as many people to mine our coin as possible, but we may have to solve the problem of centralization another way. Soon there will be ASICs. The real trick there is how to get them fairly and timely distributed and most of all get the manufacturers not to rape the coin, which creates conditions where the people who purchased the units can't make any money off of them anymore. The #1 problem with crypto currency in general is all the scammers and unscrupulous people here. They're so short sighted, or not. They can't possibly care about the future of cryptos with what they do. However, on the other hand, they are what will make cryptos stronger. We must find a way to protect ourselves from such behavior and protect the newbs from such behavior without seeming like zealots, such as the "anti alt coin brigade".
People are attracted to crypto currency #1 because they think they can make a quick buck. Heck, we were too (hubby and I) But even with us, we were also intrigued with what the whole thing means to the world. I didn't invest any actual money until April, I believe. I just mined up until then. And that was just so I could get my second masternode. Well, actually, at first it was because it was obvious I couldn't mine much anymore, and I wanted to hit that next 100 coins spot (had like 1475 coins, and wanted to get to 1500, LOL, then I wanted to get my second masternode, LOL) Anyway, yah, the possibility that a small investment might pay off, seemed like a good idea, but I'm certainly more interested in shaping the future of the world than making money now.... now Yah, but to be honest, making money got me to actually start messing around with this, and learning.
Ah well, point is, what do you suggest, in plain, direct words, at this point in the maturity of the coin?
