Must you really quote the very first post?
Give it up. The guy is gone.
You think he is gone, i think he came back at the end of this year, when the 4gb cards are stop mining.
Phönixminer ist also back after a while without any update.
So you really think that he develops out of generosity? Perhaps you believe that he just wants to help the community because he supports the technology and the concept of cryptomining Ethereum nevermind the fact that many Ethereum based algorithms will be switching to PoS soon anyway?
Or do you think he will do it just for the money? Because obviously he wouldn't have much of it by now, right. (Satire)
If you made a program that earned you 1% of 189.21TH/s which is today's total network hashrate (so that'll be 1.891) but let's say that Claymore is 60% and Phoenix is 40% so let's give Phoenix 0.756TH/s and Claymore the rest which is 1.1346TH/s. Let's convert that into profitability with zero cost or fees. 1,134,600MH/s He's earning no less than $14,960 a day! That's roughly $449,000 each month. So if you make over $5M a year by making a program that people are using without any issues what else do you need to do? You can't be forced to work. He saw an opportunity and he jumped on it! I'm actually quite envious. It just makes me respect the developers more. They don't need to play "free tech support" unless they want to. I doubt that we'll ever hear from either of them again and I'm perfectly okay with that. Surely there are more than 2 people in the world that can make a decent ethereum mining program. Then again, by the time they do we'll all probably be on PoS anyway.
If he really supported the community you would see him here more often. He'd update his software. PhoenixMiner returned, yes... which will definitely benefit him. Then it will turn the tables and the ones running 4gb cards will mine with PM instead. What choice do they have? So CM profits will definitely decline... but will it be enough for him to do anything? I don't suspect that it would. He hasn't even logged on in 6 months. If he truly supported the community he would reduce his fees also. He doesn't need 1%. He doesn't even need 0.1% devfee. That proves that he's not in it for YOU he's in it for himself.