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This looks like some kind of post chain of misunderstandings. Atleast, I missed the key parts of "gambling driven coin" and "dislike for miners". I'm just making a gambling site and I like miners (with a bit of jealousy, since I don't have hardware to do it too).
Sorry I wasn't trying to offend. You are free to run your gambling site and while it isn't for me, many others may like it.
The mining comments are from before. Right now PRT is losing miners. Difficulty has been dropping and soon the awards will be down to 90 coins from the meager 180 it is now. The dev has indicated that the mining problem can be fix, so I'll see what happens. When it was be discussed there were comments about miners have too much control, etc. That is where my mining comment came from.
Oh it doesn't take a GPU to mine PRT. My son has been doing it with a netbook style laptop and he still got about 400 coins in a week. You really just need CPUs.
All good, no offence taken. So, correct me if I'm wrong, you present a problem, that in the long run there will be no miners left, because of low rewards? Wouldn't a built in-wallet "one-click-use" mining GUI solve this issue? Assuming, that Particle price will rise to some point, who wouldn't want to earn a couple of cents while being idle. Like in the old "get paid to surf" days. At the current state mining is definitely not for anyone (command line is a dark and mysterious place/ "set generate 1" whaaaat?) and, as MaxCoin launch displayed there is a high demand for "easy internet money" by clueless people. I guess there are hundreds of them still trying to CPU solo mine MAX today. Anyway, so moonmoon adds GUI, I can make a mockup for it right now, GUI has a button "GET PARTICLES", which would launch minerd for a pool who accepts wallet address as username. Easy, simple, effective, everybody wins.
Or am I looking at this from the incorrect point of view?
Someone was telling that it's pretty risky to mine with laptops due to high possibility of overheating .
Yes mining could be done automatically in wallets. That seems to be common for POS approach, but it doesn't have to be limited to that. However I think there are some issues to address.
1) There needs to be better control of the miner. Currently the miner in wallets will peg each CPU it is allowed to use. Instead you need to have some kind of "use x% of CPU" type of control. Otherwise the wallet would be popular.
2) It would pretty much have to be on by default or else it wouldn't work. Possibly a default setting of 10% of CPU so most people wouldn't mind it.
3) Most will never see the value of it if it is limited to solo mining, so by default it probably should point to a default pool so that everyone would get a some payments.
4) Education! Frankly I don't think the community could pull off this part of it and many would claim the wallet was malware or something like that.