<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">The second like &quot;2)&quot; has a link to the paper:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Timo.Hanke/AsicBoostWhitepaperrev5.pdf">http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Timo.Hanke/AsicBoostWhitepaperrev5.pdf</a><div><br></div><div>which does discuss the fact that it is &quot;patent-pending&quot;.   Likewise it discusses ASIC improvements.  Avoiding patents that impact bitcoin and are not freely licensed, is something that is worthwhile for discussion. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Sergio Demian Lerner via bitcoin-dev <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org" target="_blank">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org" target="_blank">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">As part of the hard-fork proposed in the HK agreement(1) we&#39;d like to make the<br>
patented AsicBoost optimisation useless, and hopefully make further similar<br>
optimizations useless as well.<br>
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<br></blockquote></span><div>You say that you want to make patented optimization useless, but you point to a link that doesn&#39;t say anything about ASIC improvements or patents, which means that you have been planning to change the protocol rules with some miners (but not all the community). </div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>All changes to the protocol should be discussed in public here. If you want to make &quot;further similar optimizations useless as well&quot; then maybe you should propose a switch to EquiHash. <br></div><span class=""><div><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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1) <a href="https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/bitcoin-roundtable-consensus-266d475a61ff" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/bitcoin-roundtable-consensus-266d475a61ff</a><br>
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2) <a href="http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-April/012596.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-April/012596.html</a><br>
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