From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Timo Hanke <timo.hanke@web.de>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] AsicBoost
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 05:00:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160401090050.GA24677@savin.petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH6h1Lu81Ot0xVb+n05zrtb7PqMAukvP3525rZ8STaq2tcfWNw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 09:41:40PM -0700, Timo Hanke via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'd like to announce a white paper that describes a very new and
> significant algorithmic improvement to the Bitcoin mining process which has
> never been discussed in public before. The white paper can be found here:
>
> http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Timo.Hanke/AsicBoostWhitepaperrev5.pdf
What steps are you going to take to make sure that this improvement is
available to all ASIC designers/mfgs on a equal opportunity basis?
The fact that you've chosen to patent this improvement could be a
centralization concern depending on the licensing model used. For example, one
could imagine a licensing model that gave one manufacture exclusive rights.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-01 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-01 4:41 [bitcoin-dev] AsicBoost Timo Hanke
2016-04-01 9:00 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2016-04-04 23:01 ` Mustafa Al-Bassam
2016-04-06 11:57 ` Marek Palatinus
2016-04-06 12:09 ` Mustafa Al-Bassam
2016-04-08 20:58 ` Timo Hanke
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