I have an idea for Blissz! First a big thank you Blissz for all that you have done to help us with our D3s. Unfortunately, I have now reverted to the original Bitmain firmware. The problem is that the devfee constant restarts is disrupting my mining on my main pool, which keeps my miners waiting for long time before reconnecting, but, I will be more than happy to use your firmware if you will accept a donation, either using crypto or fiat, or both, and remove the devfee mining.
Here is my idea for how to ensure the donation money and prevent non-paying users from using the firmware without devfee:
You can implement a checking mechanism in the firmware that uses a hashed data that is made up of a username and/or a donation wallet address combined with the MAC address of a miner, and embed this encrypted data inside the firmware for each user and D3 miner individually. The firmware will check this on each start to identify and allow the miner to start without a devfee, otherwise, the firmware will start with the devfee if the information doesn't correspond to this exact D3 machine and user. The MAC address btw is always available under "Network", so upon payment, the user can easily send you the MAC addresses of his machines for you to combine them into one data-set per user, so that you only need to give the user 1 firmware copy for all his machines.I know that this need some more work on your side, but think about it:
If each user pays you something between 10-15 dollars per D3 miner firmware (a range I think most people will accept), and thinking about the few hundred thousands of D3s sold (according to my information), you will be making a lot of money!
Here is the simple calculation:
If only 100.000 users pay you say $10, you will be making 1 million dollars (or its equivalent in crypto)! This will be way better, faster and easier income for you than using 1.50% of our hashing power that might only bring you 1-2 cents a day with the current difficulty (which will only get worse)!
You can keep the free version as it is now (including the devfee mining), but for those willing to pay, you create a digitally signed versions as described above.
What do you think about this Blissz? My idea is free of charge by the way, so you can just use it!
If you run it at the lowest voltage and the ambient temperatures are quite low I advice to replace the fans as there are quite some fans a lot less noisy compared to the original ones
