On May 11, 2016 7:33 PM, "Peter Todd" <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:

> The optimisation has been independently discovered two or three times (Spondoolies and maybe Bitmain).

The idea that a precedent can be set, whereby those who seek or are awarded mining optimization patents risk retaliatory consensus changes, is very unrealistic, and such a precedent would actually encode a dependency on the insane patent systems of the world into the protocol development process.