I personally don't understand the motivation for keeping the optimization closed source, the pool in question operates 0% fee so there is no financial incentive to do so.
Today fee is zero, but tomorrow or at any other moment he can increase a percent of fee.
I agree ... That is one of the reasons on my list. First get rid of the competition and then cry wolf that running a 0 % pool is too expensive and ask for 5 % over night.
The only thing that happens for sure is that as long there a 0 % fee and a closed source optimization based on open source software, more and more miners will use the pool because they would give RICs away not doing so. This short sighed view in turn creates a mono culture of again, like we had for nearly 2 years with ypool. And we know where that ended. 450.000 RICs stuck in the owners wallet.
The only think for sure is that Simba84 is going to hurt the coin in one way or another. His selfishness already created a mono pool coin again (with more than 75 % of all coins mined at the pool, today) which is against the idea and spirit of a distributed crypto currency.
Also Simba84's statement not to comment on the subject speaks for itself. I for myself have stopped mining the coin and sold all of it, the risk is simply to high that one day coins become worthless over night because of a single persons stubbornness.
Only advise to the miners:
Please use a different pool so that Riepool is not above the 49 % in the network, the RICs you loose now not having the optimization is lower than the loss you have to swallow when it becomes worthless.
Another idea for the devs of crypto currencies would be to "decentivize" nodes (like halving their reward) in the RIC network when they create more than 50 % of the networks currency at any given time. This of course needs some deep thinking. But with modern algorithms which are able to detect patterns in certain cluster constellations, it should not be too difficult to identify those nodes, even when they are shape shifting (new coin addresses, new IP addresses, etc). This would also get rid of the people who benefit from dDOSing certain pools to insta/solo-mine while the rest is down.
So Simba84 ... please be a good RIC community member and share your optimizations to increase pool/miner diversity, which for sure helps the coin to become more valuable. Also in the spirit of science we could have a higher difficulty and find more special prime numbers. Thanks to 'dga', the author if the original optimizations we already did, but higher world records with new optimizations are always better. It will get the coin noticed in the world.
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