I use the Claymore miner and a few others, but I don't just look at the displayed hashrate from the miner, I look at the valid shares column on the pool. From what I have seen so far, most mining programs are within a few % of each other as reflected by the pool and Claymore is usually one of the highest in terms of valid shares.
So I don't know what is going on behind the scenes of the actual program as I just look at the shares I get credit for on the pool which is ultimately what I am being paid off of, so that is all that matters to me.
Basically, if I can earn $100/day off Claymore's miner I don't care if he is making 3% fees behind the scenes if the competition can only make me $90/day with a 1% fee. In the end $100 > $90 so that is what you should focus on.
you don't care cause your a tool just like jstefanop, claymore is nothing short of a greedy piece of shit that whom thinks he is quite self entitled, on a per rig basis he is ripping everyone off, how about the fact that his miner programs aren't updated enough, how about the fact his zcash miner is maxxed out in terms of optimizations? how about the fact he has MORE than 1 miner which is more than anyone else. sure he has created a good mining program but here is the thing people are starting to realize is that bit of money he takes isn't worth the NOW work he barely puts in and couple of his mining program GO UN-UPDATED for very long periods of time, and mostly when they do get updated its crap that isn't worth me dishing out a dev fee to some pompus asshole. people like you, jstefanop are fucking tools and you don't look at the whole picture. we dish out on average per rig around 40 dollars a month to claymore and that's per rig, then theres pool fee's and then power costs, as it stands I pay out more to claymore than for the power that my rigs consume, wtf that's a problem. if your going to defend someone have some better info other than ohh he has made the best program, get that shit outta here. theres lots that you do not mention. you only seem to mention the "better" things of claymore without mentioning the other bullshit, right now with btc high in price id bet he makes more than 40 per rig per month
also note that claymore could easily reduce his dev fee on all his miners to 1 percent and still make a fucking killing, but does he? no. Why cause he is greedy and if he thought he could get more from us, I guarantee he would do so
you wouldn't pay for a service if it didn't perform so why are we still having to pay for his stupid dev fee when its not worth the money, again he could reduce his devfee and still make a killing but he wont do that, 2 percent these days is too much and is nothing short of him holding some of out hashrate hostage, tbh anything after a few months of dev fee is totally not needed and is a great display is his need to be greedy.
greed is what makes this world go round