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Only just found this post but I feel its important to respond.
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What you just woke up?
Their p2pool project was simply a centralised p2pool that they tried to garner interest in by falsely claiming it was decentralised.
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I'm still wondering what is incorrect in what I said?
Bitmain has proven their lack of giving a crap about the bitcoin community and lying (either by design or by stupidity) about what they have done. Their recent statement that expending anything on support of S1/S2/S3 is a waste of money even though they are the basis by which they became one of the largest companies in bitcoin and most of that hardware is still out there - a lot of it not even 12 months old.
The oldest S2s are now 440 days old, S3s 349 days old and S4s are 263 days old [410, 319, 233 at the time of his post]. At some point you have to draw the line, as does every other software company. For example, do you support users running cgminer 3.x, or do you tell them to update to the latest version?
Yes I do tell people to update to the latest cgminer ... and it's free to update ... and it's better free software than the older version.
I have no fucking idea where you think that is related to telling people to spends hundreds of dollars to buy new miners from Bitmain.
If they didn't put you up to making this post, they really should get rid of you.
The 'oldest' - lol
Who cares what the 'oldest' is.
When did they sell the last ones?
... and subtract 42 days that I wrote that post ago ...
Yeah subtraction is tricky isn't it ... 15-Jun back to 4-May ... sounds like 42 not 30 ...
Their pool was creating empty blocks that are bad for bitcoin and I pointed that out last year and again this year ... no response about having fixed that anywhere ...
Yes it
was a bad thing.
Do you actually even understand what I was talking about?
1 day 2 hours ago:
https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/block/00000000000000000ac32c17a9ada0a79f0449681a7e8f3e2be6696b1b5d09d3They ignored the GPLv3 license with cgminer on multiple accounts and gave internal processes being slow as their crappy excuse for violating the license in all cases when they finally did release the cgminer driver code. They ignored the GPLv3 for over a year regarding the SPI kernel driver and have only recently released that.
So they did release the drivers, where is the malicious intent there? If they wanted to "screw the community" they'd have said "no" and never posted a thing.
You seem to want me to repeat it .. ok ...
The fact that they ignored the license until pressured to abide by it ... until they needed to for their own gain.
I don't know what moronic world you live in, but in my world, a company that ignores doing what they are supposed to do until a long time later being pressured to do so, that repeated action falls directly under what I called - a bad track record.
... and it's even obvious why they did ...
They are no longer making high profit per item on the community - they've had to regularly reduce their profit margin, and most people have finally realised after a very long time that they lose BTC by buying Bitmain hardware - mainly due to the fact that the loss is now so obvious where as before required a bit of thought to see it.
So now most of their income is marginal on selling even cheaper again to businesses ... or maybe also selling cheap in china? Not sure about their china business.
So what is the pressure?
Simple - their profits are heading down and they are trying to find a way to catch interest ... even though it will fail ... it's too late.
... and getting a paid employee to fail at making a case for them ... oops
[sarcasm]Yeah they have a really good track record there - of course they wouldn't do anything untoward[/sarcasm]
The examples you've provided demonstrate no malicious intent nor willingness to do evil. On top of that you've still not explained why a company with probably the most vested financial interest in the world in Bitcoin succeeding would actively try and destroy Bitcoin. Its like claiming someone will burn down their own house just to wake you up at night. It doesn't make sense.
Well I guess you just assume everyone is an idiot and can't see the obvious and will listen to your post lacking anything of relevance.
They didn't need to care about such things before simply because they made so much profit making hardware.
