There has been a lot of discussion lately about SP's frequent begging for donations and going
private with further optimizations.
While I don't agree with this he can do what he wants. I have not been one of his donaters for
the simple raeson I don't have any employment income or pension. I'm living off investment
income at about one third of my previous salary. Had I been a donater I'd be upset with SP at
this point so I understand some of the anger.
I hope he gets the community spirit back.
At least try to be more subtle about it and trim the
excess quoted text.
There is one person who has tempted me to hit the ignore button more than once. I wish he'd
take a step back and stop spouting his one opinion so often. At least try to be more subtle
about it and trim the excess quoted text.
Other than that I'm in a cheery mood after a tough couple of days, you can find out why by
visiting my thread. There I got my plug in.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13610998PS. Yesterday was apparently blue Monday, only in the northern hemisphere I assume.
It is supposedly the gloomiest day in the dead of winter. I'm sure statisticians cringe at the
notion.
Cheer up everyone.
I agree a lot with you there. And don't worry, I also have a few people ignored.
Anyway, I'm still using an old version of release 6x because a few percentages doesn't worth it to me to spend 0.1 or to use a miner that has potentional issues - being a small miner with ~2KW worth of hardware.
I'm also not a fan of unplanned and undisclosed private miner releases, like price changes and how many people it's going to get sold for and when it gets opensourced.
For example, the pentablake miner was started at 0.3 BTC for 5 people only but then it was decided that more people can buy it and then its price was reduced to 0.1 BTC out of nowhere screwing early investors;
I have sold 5 copies of the pentablake miner, so will not sell anymore. But I have already improved the hashrate, so the pentablake owners will recieve another version with more hash. (+5Mhash on the gtx 970)
I now have a discount on my 120% faster pentablake miner. It can be Yours for a 0.1 BTC donation. (Joincoin)
pm for details..
And let's be honest here, the only people buying that miner are either just wanted to donate or have a ridiculously huge farm or just suck at math because even if they were mining every single pentablake block when Joincoin was hot, it would have took them 6 days to break even not accounting for electricity and the profit of mining anything else. So realistically, even for huge farms it would have taken weeks to break even let alone being profitable.
As much as I respect SP as a coder, I'd never pay for a miner that's release conditions and price are not clearly disclosed in advance.
And honestly, asking for 0.1 BTC for a few percentages every single day knowing damn well that it doesn't worth it for anyone who doesn't have a massive farm is getting pretty desperate and quite old here.
I've donated to several devs what I felt I should and I wouldn't mind donating a lot more but the constant bickering and begging and lack of competition is making me feel like I should just give up on this part of the forum.
