I know people are saying that if you don’t agree with the optiminer fee you should not use it, but I feel that this is just a way to motivate themselves for using a closed source miner. In my vision, the 10% dev fee is far too much. For example, if I buy 10 gpus, I have paid the money for one gpu for optiminer, installed it in my rig, and keep pumping electricity in it because “this way all miners have the opportunity to use it”. Well, I made a small application that removes this fee and I tried to sell it to people on this forum without making it public. Doing so, I found out that the ones who are the most verbal in protecting the dev fee already have an application like this and it seems to have circulated for some time. Moreover, I learned that there are other miner softwares, faster than silentarmy, probably faster even than optiminer, which are being “tested” by people with many rigs. So my question is how is it correct to pay the hardware for somebody else and keep paying electricity for that hardware, because people are saying this is the ethical thing to do, while themselves have already removed the dev fee? Well the dev fee is for the masshow and it masks it’s real cost, which I consider too high.
So I have decided to sell my dev removal application to everyone. The application redirects the mining fee to your default address. Using the link below,you can download a Linux binary compiled on ubuntu 14 (works with 16 too). This is for the license check. The price is a one-time fee of 0.2 BTC. I can setup a temporary license for testing.
download link:
The application is suitable for large farms, as one instance can remove the fee for as many rigs as you want (you just have to connect the clients to the same ip address).
He is not. He implemented man-in-the-middle attack on comminication channel between miner and stratum server using local proxy.
However I also think it is very dump to buy this thing.
On the other hand, if someone willing to buy this stuff, send me pm and i provide you open source style solution and explanation of how/why it works for the same price or less.
However you probably will feel bad for paing any money for such simple ‘hack’.
so everybody has the solution and everybody thinks that the dev fees are either a full rip-off or too high … yet you are asking for price to get rid of the dev fee!!!
if i had such knowledge i would just share it without saying dev’s are so and so and we should not pay them !!!
@niko if you know how to do it … then put it out there!!! why the pm?
It is like vacination.
It is ok to not vacinate yourself.
But totally not ok to take actions which leads to not vacinated general populace.
So it is good (morality excluded) to remove devfee for yourseld (you have more profits).
But it is totally not good to make this solution public (you do not have more profits and developers stops creating new miners).
People don’t actually donate, only a very small percentage do sent money to developers and the sum is well below what the devs expect. This is why they are charging a fee for the time you are using their software. This also happens in other domains where software is involved, it’s called SAAS (software as a service)
You do not have to like it. There are alternatives: Write your own, use an open source miner. You have paid for the GPUs. Why do you expect to not pay for the miner?
You do not have to be surprised that there are private version of miners around. Your post explains exactly why: Selling a miner privately is much less risky to end up with nothing. Releasing it public means people will try to deprive the devs from their income. So, your action just makes public miners less available and private ones will be sold at a higher price… I prefer spending time on programming than selling, that’s why I was looking for a way to make the miner available to everyone.
Personally, I prefer working on optimizing the hash kernel instead of deploying counter measures against circumventing the dev fee. People like you make me spend more time on the latter
Hacking the software for yourself is one thing. Selling it is just brazen. You did not do any contribution to the mining.
IMO programs is unrelated (at least nobody asked me for one).
Seems author just sold his next miner to big guys. No problem, he is in his rights.
I already migrated rigs to win since optiminer could not compete with claymore.
He probably sold to private farms before this devfee talk. I’m sure most miner developers keep the latest improvements for private selling. Optiminer’s devfee address has a hashrate of 173.0 KH/s, so I think he’s pleased with his current earnings and not releasing to the public, only makes it easier by not having to deal with user complaints, etc.
edit: OP’s solution works. dev fee is showing up as the default worker