[bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Inhibiting a covert attack on the Bitcoin POW function

Alex Mizrahi alex.mizrahi at gmail.com
Thu Apr 6 15:36:23 UTC 2017


> Agreed! There's no benefit to Bitcoin for having it - one way or the other
> miners are going to destroy ~12BTC/block worth of energy. Meanwhile it
> appears
> to have lead to something like a year of stupid political bullshit based
> on a
> secret advantage - there's no reason to invite a repeat of this episode.


But is it even possible to completely remove ASICBOOST optimization
possibility?
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