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I know your intentions are good and that you are trying to help the community, however pointing 115th to a solo block needs 20 years of 100% luck to hit a block, also what you are trying to fix is not broken, Kano bans aftermarket firmware because according to him "They violate cgminer license", it's only Bifa who is worried about the "blockless" issue and given that he mines to a small pool his concern is 100% valid.
Vnish has a proof of finding blocks, but Kano still doesn't allow it on his pool, if you somehow managed to hit a block and prove that theirry4wd's version finds blocks, Kano will still ask theirry4wd for the source code, theirry4wd will say he doesn't have it because bitmain didn't release it, it's a dead end until bitmain provide the source code, which probably isn't going to happen, so you are going to be burning over $300 a month for almost nothing.
... I just don't understand that if it sooooo obvious that people are finding blocks using it, then surely the pools and the users finding these blocks with it should be shouting from the friggin rooftops...
Why would they want to do that? probably 99% of all miners with custom firmware mine on PPS pools or at least fairly large PPLNS pools where they don't seem to bother to check anything aside from their daily payment, also probably nobody except a few members around the forum take the "block finding ability" seriously, and the vast majority of miners don't even understand what does it mean to find a block, all they understand is that you point your gear to a mining pool and get paid accordingly, I don't understand on what bases do people expect that the average miner cares about finding a block when their mining gear is pointed to a PPS pool.!
... the Braiins web site should have a page with proof of every block found using Braiins, hell they even have a massive pool associated with their firmware that can EASILY help them prove it.
I agree 100%, it should be pretty easy for slushpool to prove that, they have a ton of money and they could probably afford to even PAY enough miners to test their firmware and prove that their firmware does find blocks.
The question is why would they want to do that? who is asking them for it? a random person on the forum like myself, you or phill? if you send a support ticket requesting that it will probably be automatically deleted, if someone who owns a 1EH farm request it, they will probably prove it to them (assuming their firmware does find blocks).
Keep in mind that even Vnish's proof of finding blocks came from regular users, Vnish probably doesn't care if anyone believes that his firmware finds a block, he knows that most people want to overclock/underclock their gears, mine to a large pool, get paid and that's pretty much it, as terrible as it sounds this is the sad ugy truth.
I don't know how anyone who cares about mining and bitcoin can advocate using something as CRITICAL to the entire ethos and infrastructure of the system without knowing 100% that it actually does the job its supposed to.
Miners are incentivized by profit, most miners would do anything to make the most money, if they get their hands on something that would help them "cheat" the system to make more profit even if that was to bring bitcoin security and decentralization down, they would still use it, proof is Bitmain didn't blink an eye before using the patented covert Asicboost.
Long story short, the pools that accept miners with custom firmware carry the most risk, it's pretty much their JOB to ensure that every share they pay for is capable of finding a block and given that almost no mining pool that pays PPS (the pools that are most effected by not finding blocks) havn't banned those people - suggests that everything
seems to be working just fine.
With that being said, I DON'T advocate using a firmware that doesn't find blocks.