Djm I don't know where all this hate of miners is coming from, but they're definitely not making money right now. Look at a profit calculator and then scale it up a bit and if you don't have a plug watt meter, buy one. Using GPUs to mine you're earning about -30% just by running the things.
Hate is a big word, I am just saying.
Only a few people donate while the vast majority is just expecting stuff for free,
and each time a gpu dev ask something for his service, then he is a jerk or an asshole or a hater, this is getting old...
That aside, I'm not sure why everyone overlooked the part where I said 'put in a dev mine'. Other developers have done it and it works fine as long as you tell people it's there. Claymore is a good example of that. If you feel your work is worth money, do more then say 'give me money'. With a 50% increase in hashrate you'd have everyone on board even with a 5% dev fee, which is basically every x11/x13/x15 AMD GPU miner, funneling coins through you regardless of the fact that we wouldn't be making more money and this would actually be worse for us as everyone would then be using 15% more power.
Why are you telling me this rather than telling to your electricity company you won't pay because it wasn't profitable enough
(probably because they would sue you and cut down your power line
... but beside that ?)
I don't understand where this high and mighty attitude is coming from though. It's just like you want to dangle tidbits in front of miners that aren't having the best of times right now as a big 'fuck you' because we apparently didn't thank you enough for free work you did... for... free...
again, that's always the same thing, each one gpu dev complain, he has an attitude
just an example, xcn miner was downloaded around 200x (which isn't a lot actually) got donations from max 10~15ppl so profitability or not it is always the same story (and every gpu dev and dev at large will tell you the exact same story, but as I am also a bit of a troll so I talk a lot more about it...)
regarding: dev mine: well it is based on opensource so basically releasing only the exe (which some people will disassemble to remove the dev fee, as it happens to Girino) is forbidden so basically it would require to rewrite everything from scratch, encrypt the exe so that very very bad players don't temper with it... etc...)
crypto is the far west and we aren't the bad guys... we still respect a few rules...