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On May 11, 2016 7:33 PM, "Peter Todd" <<a href="mailto:pete@petertodd.org">pete@petertodd.org</a>> wrote:</p>
<p dir="ltr">> The optimisation has been independently discovered two or three times (Spondoolies and maybe Bitmain).</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.<br>
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