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From: praxeology_guy <praxeology_guy@protonmail.com>
To: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Praxeological Analysis of PoW Policy Changes, Re: ASICBOOST
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 20:11:00 -0400	[thread overview]
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> "... put a damper on advancing the development of more efficient mining hardware, which is once again desirable to users as it makes the transaction ordering more future proof."

Run on sentence sorry. I meant to say that development of more efficient/mature mining hardware sooner is desirable to money owners/traders. So anything that could dis-incentivize R&D to mature ASICs would be bad. PoW policy changes should be made carefully in order to minimize this hampering effect.

I didn't mean to imply that Gregory Maxwell's current BIP countered/disabled both the evident and covert versions of asicboost. I think his BIP is a good idea, to quickly release a version that blocks the patented covert optimization... and then later we can consider taking steps to further disable the patented evident version of asicboost if it becomes a problem.

Cheers,
Praxeology Guy

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2017-04-06 20:12 [bitcoin-dev] Praxeological Analysis of PoW Policy Changes, Re: ASICBOOST praxeology_guy
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