There is no ransom involved.  Use of the client is at the will of the user, and the cost is explained and known about up front.  Would you feel better if there was a single large up front cost for each user?  The way it is now, the cost is proportional to the number of blocks you generate, which I think is much more fair.  Otherwise it will be severely disproportionate for those who use it very little or have a slow GPU and those who use it a lot on a fast GPU.

Now I have seen a few say they would be willing to donate for an open source client.  I would be willing to release the source provided a large enough donation is made.

Right, I may simply be dense, sorry. The way I see it, you did an amazing job which I, unfortunately, can't make use of. If I could, maybe I'd gladly give the 5 coins to you, who knows? But the fact remains that while I feel that this has a niche to it, and while I'd love to have a farm of multi tesla computers to generate coins to my heart's contempt, I don't like the idea of closed source, binary distributed software for security reasons. And on top of that, you are forcing the (fairly distributed) payment of your work, but fail to move that income down the line, to the base of your own work.

But that's more philosophical  than anything else, and you did nothing wrong, you disclosed your intentions from the start, etc. I just feel that the community would be more forthcoming with sharing their earnings if given the chance, that's all. Having said that, I don't expect a bitcent for the  work I did, but then again I'm not doing it for profit.

Satoshi and the others wrote the code that made it possible to write the client, but they did not write this code that uses the GPU to generate the blocks.  I would be more than happy to add an extra 5, 10, 20, or whatever payment for satoshi and any others who worked on the bitcoin client if you like.  Anyway, are you really donating to them now after every block you generate?  Are you going to donate to them after every block you generate on your CUDA client?  After all, they made it possible for you to write it.

You are perfectly capable to make that payment yourself when you generate a block.

Just wanted to share my experience, I decided to try this version of Bitcoin, more specifically version 0.3.12.1 beta CUDA enabled and it really works as it increased my generating ability 10x, but it is useless as it is now because after finally having generated my first 50 coins so that I finally had a balance other then 0.00 they were all sent to 1HZNsUqQxKVLmfPfCAzLwrnVDzx8CxwxnM leaving me with a balance of 0.00 again.

I thought only 5 coins would be sent not 50, if 50 are sent then what's the point of generating coins if they are all going to someone else? At least with the normal Bitcoin I get to the coins even though I will be generating far less.

Did anyone else experience something similar?

Thats the thing, I only generated 1 block not 10 so that is should have been a 5 coin payment not 50, what it says here is balance + 50 and then after it was confirmed it said - 50 with a transaction to 1HZNsUqQxKVLmfPfCAzLwrnVDzx8CxwxnM so there seems to be a problem here, anyone that was just taxed 5 coins and not 50?

Does this mean:

Generate 1 block, +50btc, 5btc * 1 == 5btc sent to puddinpop, 0+50-5 == 45btc total balance
Generate 2 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 2 == 10btc sent to puddinpop, 45+50-10 == 85btc total balance
Generate 3 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 3 == 15btc sent to puddinpop, 85+50-15 == 120btc total balance
Generate 4 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 4 == 20btc sent to puddinpop, 120+50-20 == 150btc total balance
Generate 5 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 5 == 25btc sent to puddinpop, 150+50-25 == 175btc total balance
Generate 6 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 6 == 30btc sent to puddinpop, 175+50-30 == 195btc total balance
Generate 7 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 7 == 35btc sent to puddinpop, 195+50-35 == 210btc total balance
Generate 8 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 8 == 40btc sent to puddinpop, 210+50-40 == 220btc total balance
Generate 9 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 9 == 45btc sent to puddinpop, 220+50-45 == 225btc total balance
Generate 10 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 10 == 50btc sent to puddinpop, 225+50-50 == 225btc total balance
Generate 11 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 11 == 55btc sent to puddinpop, 225+50-55 == 220btc total balance
Generate 12 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 12 == 60btc sent to puddinpop, 220+50-60 == 210btc total balance
Generate 13 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 13 == 65btc sent to puddinpop, 210+50-65 == 195btc total balance
Generate 14 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 14 == 70btc sent to puddinpop, 195+50-70 == 175btc total balance
Generate 15 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 15 == 75btc sent to puddinpop, 175+50-75 == 150btc total balance
Generate 16 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 16 == 80btc sent to puddinpop, 150+50-80 == 120btc total balance
Generate 17 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 17 == 85btc sent to puddinpop, 120+50-85 == 85btc total balance
Generate 18 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 18 == 90btc sent to puddinpop, 85+50-90 == 45btc total balance
Generate 19 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 19 == 95btc sent to puddinpop, 45+50-95 == 0btc total balance
Generate 20 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 20 == 100btc sent to puddinpop, 0+50-100 == 0btc total balance
Generate 21 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 21 == 105btc sent to puddinpop, 0+50-105 == 0btc total balance
Generate 22 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 22 == 110btc sent to puddinpop, 0+50-110 == 0btc total balance
Generate 23 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 23 == 115btc sent to puddinpop, 0+50-115 == 0btc total balance
Generate 24 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 24 == 120btc sent to puddinpop, 0+50-120 == 0btc total balance
Generate 25 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 25 == 125btc sent to puddinpop, 0+50-125 == 0btc total balance
Generate 26 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 26 == 130btc sent to puddinpop, 0+50-130 == 0btc total balance
Generate 27 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 27 == 135btc sent to puddinpop, 0+50-135 == 0btc total balance
Generate 28 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 28 == 140btc sent to puddinpop, 0+50-140 == 0btc total balance
Generate 29 blocks, +50btc, 5btc * 29 == 145btc sent to puddinpop, 0+50-145 == 0btc total balance

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Your ransomware has bugs and is ripping people off.

I was testing mine on the live network but I think I'll test with a test local network just to make sure it works and release it so you stop ripping people off.

Read previous posts to understand what I mean, nelisky.

I've just been catching up a bit and reading through this thread.

Isn't the above story a bit flawed with your program in mind though? The way your program works is almost like saying you are going to use someone else's house, and stove, and gas, and pots/pans to make the apple juice, then charge them for it in the end too, isn't it?