so any ideas sp? ... what would you prefer? ... just donations? ...
#crysx
I can include a 1% fee, and keep it opensource. I just need to refork tvpruvot's work, and add my modded kernals. The 1.6.6 version supports mining to multiple pools.
Then I just need to optimize every algo a few percent, and everybody would use my optimized kernals...
But then I doubt any other developer would contribute his own work to your fork...
And someone could easily fork your work, modify the hardcoded pools and lower the fee. Or remove it altogether.
True. So this might not be an option. People have tried this before.
1. Claymore's/djm34 approach. Closed source/fast kernals. (Not an option for me since I use gpl code and don't want to rewrite everything.)
2. Girinos approach. Forced donation (opensource) People will remove the donation code, refork and make it free.
3. Miner control's approach. (donation with a switch) Everybody is turning off the donation switch.
4. SP's approach. code for beer. Will work as long as the beer's keep comming
But the biggest gains are not open sourced, mostly the easy pickings.
5. Private farm with private kernals.. Much profit, much Risk.
leave the open source as is ... like pallas said - the opensource is just that and all devs can contribute and improve the code ...
the private miner that you have would be at least 25% ahead of the opensource one - so mine with it and accept donations as is for the opensource project ...
i cant see why the model that is NOW will not function in the future when EVERYTHING is opensourced ... community members who mine have been donating for a long time - its just not a great deal all at once ... its trickles from each individual miner / donor ...
so why not amalgamate all of the donations into one and cut the share of those donations ... if EVERYONE had those private miners - would ALL the devs receive donations? ... if the current state of donations are anything to go by - probably not ...
so how are we to donate more - and entice the miners that are using all these miners for free - to donate also? ...
i have a couple of ideas - but have yet to formulate HOW to do it ... so i need to think some more about it ...
i have the donation links up - and will update the op of the donation thread tomorrow - so people can mine to donate for the dev of their choice as well as donate directly if they like ... though the donation links ARE anonymous and amalgamated ... so if 7 miners mine for sp at the same time - it will show as ONE miner on nicehash with xxx hashrate ...
the current working donation links to date are sp - djm34 - wolf0 - pallas - klaust - tpruvot and crysx ( me ) in case anyone wants to donate to help with the costs of all the servers and maintenance / updates which for the moment is out of my own pocket ...
the other way involves the multipool i want to setup and will involve a certain process of things for that to happen - but i have yet to find anyone that has the time and is willing to build the multipool ... yet ... i can keep my fingers crossed
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one dev has said he will look at it later when he has the time ... and im hoping that will happen - but i understand if it doesnt ...
thefarm will have a bit to do with the donation links also - and i have a plan to utilize thefarm in some way as well ... unfortunately - that too is waiting on the HOW it will be implemented ... ill figure that one out soon ...
you talk about profit sp - does this still mean the fiat conversion from coins? ... or profit as in conversion to btc? ...
i dont look at anything in crypto as 'profit' on the fiat level - ever ... that is a completely different world from that with which im doing with the farm and crypto - so i get a little confused when people start talking about 'profits' and being 'profitable' ...
cant wait to get back into the office tomorrow ... i have a LOT of work to do ...
#crysx