Bullshit - I talked to dga. What's your beef with me, seriously? If you were just trolling, I doubt you would put this much effort into it.
It does surprise me that you're pissed I released it, though, as I didn't want to. Even more odd that dga is your hero, when he never released his, the guy he sold it to did.
I believe the latter statement ("the guy he sold it to ... released it") to be false, as I noted above.
The former is quite true that I never released it; there are few heroes in this business. I developed a fast, private miner for XMR and used for financial gain. I didn't release it, and planned to keep it private until I'd made some money from it. As some folks may know, I've been exploring a bunch of different models for how to get paid for developing miners and cryptocurrency code, ranging from:
* Give it away and ask for donations (this doesn't work at all) -- scrypt for nvidia.
* Bounties (protoshares gpu) -- this works ok, but doesn't really pay a living wage for the development time.
* Developer fee (mandatory and then optional / open source after a week or two, for Riecoin) -- less than the bounty approach
* Mine early to get some holdings and then try to help the coin by contributing code to it (Boolberry)
* Mine privately for a month before giving it away (the most successful approach yet) (Monero)
(I never got my month. *grin*)
It's a debate worth having about how to fund ongoing development of good code, and it's clear from the response to Claymore's fee that there are very strong feelings about it on all sides.
yvg1900 may have the best model overall (a gentle dev fee in a closed source context), but I still think it's worth figuring out good paths that result in the development of quality open source software.
Good programmers are really expensive.
I think cbuchner1 actually has it right, though: Future coin developers should partner with a miner developer or two to release their coins with fast CPU and GPU miners publicly available as open source. It'll reduce (but not eliminate) all of this crap. Perhaps fund it with a share of a 1% dev fee built into the coin itself, as Boolberry incorporated, so that the devs have an incentive to keep up the code.
