[At the risk of being overly blathering]
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I'd like to add that the approach I speculate (hard-coded donation mining), if done for, say, six months, would probably net reorder far more than a salary and/or voluntary donations (depending on how widely the re-coded miner is adopted).
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reorder, you could open-source it under those terms: with a statement that it will mine for 1.25 hours to your donation address every day, and code it to do so. I'd totally mine with that. "breaking" proof-of-work momentum for GPUs had a high bounty associated with it, and this miner if widely adopted will probably produce a lot of value for everyone . . . it would also make it easier for the PTS devs to adjust the algorithm against whatever advantages you discovered . . .