XMR miners
please send some hash on xmr.poolto.be as we struggle since we started this pool; we rent a strong dedi for it and fees only pays 25% of our expenses yet. We will not increase fees so we'll try to grab some more miners or we'll have to close; we give us 3 months to increase our userbase. please help the ecosystem keep it's small pools.btw; I see we still have the claymore miner parasite as the main miner for ATI cards; is there an open source miner funding somewhere? Is wolf still working on xmr/releasing private miners?
I'm hodling many xmr as long term bet; i like the coin but that claymore shit + how the coin's mined is still a problem for me; solving that would make my life better.
I'd give some xmr/btc to fund an open source miner.
If there's already some mining initiatives going please link me i didn't read the many pages since my last post
ps; i'm the one who asked todd; as I already knew his answer
cheers everyone; sorry for that mini spam
Yes, move to small pools peeps! You think your pool is small? I'm on monerohash - we're pulling 4.4 kh/s right now!!!
Re: claymore (closed source) vs nvidia (open source) - I think there's an interesting lesson to be learned - claymore has continued to update his mining software, (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=638915.2320) whereas the open source nvidia has languished with absolutely 0 updates in over (at least) 10 months. If anything, I'd hope for someone to develop a closed source nvidia miner. Well really I'd hope for any kind of development. Additionally, the mining "fee" is relatively modest - 1 round of hashing every 40 rounds - so the fee is based on luck as much as your own mining is based on luck. He's not getting every 1/40 shares.
What I really don't understand is why individuals that profit from the Monero mining economy don't donate to core development. I mean, they might, but its unknown. In these ecosystems where everything depends on everything else, I'd hope that all participants would feed the source. Especially considering that of all the non-specialized hardware mineable coins out there, Monero will probably stick around the longest and probably has the best bet to be ASIC resistant for the longest. These are both things that, I would think, would convince the mining profiteers to donate to core development. But who knows, maybe they do. I'd love for some botnet dude to come in here and go "all my XMR are belong to you, core devs"
You couldn't mine Monero on AMD cards if it wasn't for claymore, but claymore couldn't have a profitable mining software product if it wasn't for Monero.