And anyone who would have discovered it independently would have been free to implement it.  That's the issue, not that there's an optimization.

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Tom Harding via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
On 5/10/2016 2:43 PM, Sergio Demian Lerner via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>
> If we change the protocol then the message to the ecosystem is that
> ASIC optimizations should be kept secret.

Further to that point, if THIS optimization had been kept secret, nobody
would be talking about doing anything, as with countless other
optimizations.

_______________________________________________
bitcoin-dev mailing list
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev