Just out of curiosity, what coin worth mining is using pentablake?

Which algo?

Well said. If you can't kill it, better have it on your side.
On a side note, in general it looks like Pareto's distribution can be applied to hashrate. Food for though.

http://organofcorti.blogspot.it/2013/04/121-pre-asic-network-hashrate.html

Nicehash is almost always more profitable on quark than hashpower: there must be some good quark coin which hashpower is not mining.

Looks like you're having real fun with your troll account :-D
Now back to topic ;-)

again and again...

developers of amd miners, many months ago, went to sell private miners because nobody was supporting their work.
some is supporting now, but it's still a drop in the ocean.
if you make a program and you can get 0.05 BTC or 5 BTC, what you'd choose?

miner with fee: if you opensource it, someone will remove the fee and everybody will use his version. it has happened with non-opensource miners as well.

Claymore: he is either using opensource software (which is breaking the license) or he's got a lot lot lot of time to redevelop the stratum client, the nonce generation, the gpu interface, etc. etc. I for sure do not want to break any license nor have enough time to do all the miner from scratch.

Of course! I have some. Best investment I ever made.

... and is getting even more expensive in the future :-(
Also, the purpose would be to avoid selling power to the grid for a very low price, when producing in excess.

Now that Tesla Powerwall is available (for some countries it will be in some months), a little solar plant for mining may be feasible (and profitable in the long term).
Specially if you can apply for some government incentives.

I think it's surplus from the power plants.
Plus they are supported by the government.
I've seen a guy with a "personal" 80Kw hydro power plant... do you have a river in the backyard? :-)

I'd not unlock the wallet so lightly: a malware can easily steal all your VNL if the wallet is unlocked.
Better if you can unlock it for staking only: does the vnl wallet support it?

Curiously, hashrate at the pool doesn't seem to be affected by the apparently lower reported one: it looks to be the same on all the last three commits.
Will report more precise data tomorrow.

Latest commit is even slower than the previous one on my 970s.
They can barely reach 9000 at 1387 MHz

Latest git, the 970 peaks higher but average hashrate is lower.
Maybe the usual scantime issue? Will test as soon as my rig stops crashing (faulty card) :-(

EDIT: no it's not scantime.

no, it's Alphaville :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_in_Japan_(Alphaville_song)

EDIT: you must be young!

I know that lyrabar is planning an algo fork. They are non answering their own post on btc, nor updating the github so I have no more info than that.
Then there is monacoin. And this one:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1180005.0

So a couple chinese coin can be enough to bring that demand ;-)

Miner with fee: this had been discussed tens of times.
Most devs can't do it because you need to write your own stratum client, GPU interface etc.
It takes too much time. It's not worth the effort.

Miners complaining: if you want nvidia miners stay opensource so you can continue mining with a profit, you know what to do. Otherwise, in a couple months nvidia will be just like amd.

I don't see any recent commit on github... Is there a new repository?

I don't have as many cards as you, but had a bunch of amd cards (sold most of them) but none of them ever failed. Nor did the nvidia ones.
What's failing for me are ssd disks and, mostly, network equipment... a lot of routers, wifi cards, etc.
Just my experience :-)

BTW great work with all the "ecosystem", keep it going!

Possible fix for neoscrypt solo mining by tpruvot:

https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer/commit/8ec5dd7d8e8ffea2bb710d0013ea657473de1f51