DRM is more or less a time-lock - the more work you put into it, the longer you get before it's useless.
Looking at old blockchains I'm almost sure that Quark version of Smelter got hacked. Well, time to do licensing server.
Encryption, authentication, verification, and updates... I guess developers actually have to try at what they're doing and make a actual program. Maybe even make a company. You know, take shit seriously.
There is and never will be a 100% effective DRM. You just make it not worth someones time to break it. That means fair pricing (1-2% mining fee) for a fair product. In addition to this people DO actually buy software and use legal software, even around here. This is why software companies still exist in real life, even though pirated copies are so easy to come by.
What you are asking is ridiculous (as usual).
If we were to make such program/company considering the work involved, I would not price it below 15btc per copy (which actually isn't bad
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Would you buy it ? Guess not
And "fair mining" in the 1%-2% yeah right
fee rather 5~15% you are kinda cheap...
Stop asking people to make stuff, you would never buy unless it is free
As usual you have no idea about anything besides the algos you 'optimize' and have no idea what sort of volume goes through the crypto networks. 15BTC per copy is $7500~ per copy. How many do you plan on selling? 2?
Quark alone JUST on Nicehash has 60GH. At 2% that's 1.2GH. That's .48BTC per day, for Quark alone and that's a smaller one. That's $18,144 per month at current BTC prices. This doesn't include ANY pools outside of Nicehash and we all know those don't exist.
At your 15% you'd be getting 3.6 BTC per day. You'd have 108 BTC at the end of the month for just Quark. I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about. This is why miners with 15% mining fees get neutered, because that level of greed no one puts up with.
I don't think paying someone .48 BTC per day is giving someone something 'for free'. I would be paying the 1-2% just like everyone else.
CCMiner already does pretty much every algo, almost everyone with a Nvidia card is using it. That is A LOT of hashrate and 1-2% doesn't sound like a lot, but it definitely adds up and you definitely could make a company built on this sort of thing. This could also be expanded to AMD cards, essentially every last bit of hashrate for altcoins would be going through this miner. That is a metric FUCKTON of money at 1-2%.
All of this could be done with a handful of programmers, probably 5-10 and overhead. There are already that many big names in the community. 6 working algos, 2 working features, 2 working security. For a small company that is a lot of income.
You guys aren't thinking about the shear scale of cryptos and what such a project encompasses. This is no different then starting a company to make ASICs, only the product already exists, there are no startup costs, and there is NO competition once things get going. Freelance devs wont be able to keep up with a actual company as long as the talent is decent.
DRM isn't a user feature, just to make sure you understand that. That's for your security. Users don't want DRM. It's a negative quality when it comes to selling software.
And then mining would be totally unprofitable. 2% mining fee, 2% pool fee, 2% trading fee, 2% BTC fee. = sell all my cards and don't mine anymore...can't afford to give hash away and it costs me to do so.
Well you get the point.
If 8% makes you unprofitable for top to bottom then you probably should sell your cards as that's a huge investment for really long term risky ROI. You can get 5% on certain CDs.
You don't know how much you're losing due to private miners as well. For AMD cards, this made them completely unprofitable unless you had said private miner. So your loses would be much higher then 2%.
--scryptr
