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Added option to pay with bitcoin.

Kind regards
Kris

Sad to hear that, do not want to cause death. The reason of the price is because you get the script unencrypted and therefore I have no way of making sure you do not resell it.

Also you get 15 years of PHP development experience put into the script.

I can arrange an encrypted version of the script with http://www.ioncube.com/ for only $350

Kind regards
Kris

1. The script doesn't take much, if you want to build a big pool you need to check out the requirements for bitcoind and pushpool.

2. Yes the price includes script updates, if I find security bugs etc.

Do you have any sort of demo or even performance statistics? I might consider buying pool software from Tycho or Slush but I see no reason to pay that much for an unproven pool system. What advantages does it offer over PushPool (http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=3493.0), a free and open source pool system?

It has a web front-end.

Thanks for releasing this Kris, though I think you could get a lot more sales/interest at a lower price (suggesting $99 or $199)!  I agree that it sucks that people can/will distribute and steal your code, but if you do find someone doing so, you could always sue them for copyright infringement.  

I'm just glad that there is finally an option for people who don't know how to program their own pool.  Even the open source pool software didn't have a web front-end, which is pretty much a requirement for anyone who wants to run a pool that will have more than a handful of users.

Tempting...

Encrypted basically means un-editable, right?  I guess my question is, if you have the option to encrypt it, why sell a de-encrypted version at all?  What benefit does the unencrypted version give to the buyer?

Cool, thanks.  Some companies/developers have stipulations that the buyer cannot edit the code, even if it is in plaintext, to avoid support issues.  It's good you are supporting it if people want to pay the extra though.

The idea of gbyte.dk was to have a place where I could see starts from my miners. But then I though hey wouldnt it be cool to have it work as a real pool, so I went the extra mile and programmed all in.

So buyers of this script will mainly be people who solo mine with a few friends, as least I think that's the clientel.

Kind regards
Kris

Hey, don't knock him for trying to make a buck!

I think for someone looking to start up a public and reliable pool, $199 is a relatively small amount to pay.  I think a good anti-DDOS server costs in the neighborhood of $1000-$1500 monthly.  $199, or even $99, opens it up to even the average enthusiast who might think "hey, I'd like to start up my own pool and see what happens."  The big issue is in the code being untested in a large pool.  I would encourage Kris to start his own pool based off of this code set to prove the concept out and show everyone that it does, in fact, work.

Sure, he could go lower than that, but at that point, you would have too many people buying, and he would lose his source code to piraters/copyright infringers.  With only a handful of buyers, it is less likely to get out "into the wild".