I know this is beating a dead horse, but we really need Scrypt-N and x11 support. I don't think this will go away and more algorithms will pop up in the future, so MM needs a way to deal with this before we all jump ship as the GPU exodus for scrypt comes around. I've been eyeing up other protocols for awhile and it's about time to make the switch. I'd like to take MM with me, but it's not going to stop me if it's not available.
The only people that will be using MM in a month or two will be ASIC owners. You guys seem to be playing the 'work push game' right now, where no one wants to do the actual work, they just want to make the other person do it (I've seen this a lot in open source initiatives and offices). The coin algo makers have less incentive to actually push their work as people will use their coin and miners no matter what. It seems as though you guys (makers of BFGminer and MM) aren't going out of your way to talk to the other developers either. BFGminer isn't adding support and MM isn't adding support for other miners, that just means it will get dropped when everyone switches as MM isn't flexible enough to handle the transition.
It'd be different if you guys were actively trying to get code from them, but they were refusing, that definitely doesn't seem like what's happening here. A community 'beg' post isn't the same as developers asking them for their code. Others and I have been asking for Scrypt-N support for more then a month now and it's always 'talk to the other guy'. I know you're all into monetizing MM right now, but that wont matter if the install base halves or even quarters in two months. Perhaps this is a problem that warrants active pursuit as X11 and Scrypt-N wont be the only algorithms that will need support.
There's close enough to
no income from the "Perks" in MultiMiner to call in zero. People just
do not donate (that's an all-time payout of less than $200 USD, which wouldn't cover a single GPU). So this comes down to whether I have the time or interest. I don't, unfortunately. So it's up to folks who
are interested.
I think it's unfortunate to imply folks may stop using a project instead of contributing. At this point any of the folks who are actually concerned with the algo support could pick up and start contributing to BFGMiner or MultiMiner (either code, or money, or hardware). Nobody has. On top of that nobody does regular donations. And nobody donates the hardware requested so I can properly support GPU mining (R9 donation addresses empty for months:
18ciG8A4SqQyUnwN5YSSMHJQxqJ9iKSDZR &
LWDGNbJpiip1wvor6idJmYG1ZMztpPhZEF).
Edit: If anyone would like to list the main threads and contact information for the original authors of these algos I will go ahead and add a post as well. I simply do not have the bandwidth right now to chase down all of these algos and open up dialogs with every coin-creator. Also, in my experience it does more good to have the users request things from authors. That's my 2c.
Edit 2: I've also stated repeatedly that I am not against supporting multiple backend miners. I simply do not have the time to do so myself. It is
very time consuming to maintain an application that supports many miners, each of which supports different features, hardware, arguments, etc. It takes away from creating features for MultiMiner itself. However, all it takes is another competent C# developer to jump in and start helping. The source is
there. Samples are
there. Unit tests
too. You can develop on
any platform you choose. It couldn't be much easier. There's free classes on
Pluralsight I'm sure.
