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RE: The Gridcoin mining experiment - VGTU errors and pomegranate
Pomegranate is a botnet of infected computers just like the user kikipope whom spread a virus around that installed boinc as a hidden service and hijacked peoples computers and is a fraudulent user stealing your Gridcoin , my Gridcoin and everybody else's Gridcoin along with if you are crunching the same project as him/her/it than you are wasting your time . You know you can say that , its the truth and its been proven factual. I guess better a Boinc botnet than DDOS eh? Gridcoin needs a mechanism to ban users from the neural network so they can be flagged and are unable to earn under that CPID and this has been a problem for quite some time now that was supposed to have been resolved but apparently the team leadership doesn't care.
Pomegrante is essential as you mention however users agree to install this along with other software which puts this said application in a gray area (i plan to verify this more in the future). I don't agree with pomegrante but they are taking a different approach then kikipope.
I don't believe Charity Engine has been forthright with anyone about the amount of users mining what like ETH etc. However I do believe they may have ways to prove themselves as legit when pressured which is a concern to me.
But like most charities in the world like unicef , etc .But with regards to all money made or donations, very little goes towards the cause.
kikipope is no more thou
Another note:
Users need to be more vigilant in any software that they install period.
I know what you mean and i actually also don't like Pomegranate and the way it works, but fact is that instead of beeing spread by hacking computers Pomegranate installs in software bundles. So it mainly is installed on pc's of users who clicked through an installation very fast and basically agreed to install it, so there is not much do on our site.
Of course you don't have to like it and the fact that most Pomegranate hosts only exist for some weeks also tells us that most users don't like their pc's beeing slowed down by this.