> "... 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