Slush, You can actually detect the use of this improvement by looking at the I/O of the chip, the I/O of an on-board micro-controller or even at the system I/O because all the communication including the mining pool protocol is different.
Timo On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 1:57 AM, Marek Palatinus <ma...@palatinus.cz> wrote: > To my understanding it is purely software thing. It cannot be detected > from outside if miner uses this improvement or not. So patenting it is > worthless. > > slush > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Mustafa Al-Bassam via bitcoin-dev < > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> Alternatively scenario: it will cause a sudden increase of Bitcoin mines >> in countries where the algorithm is not patented, possibly causing a >> geographical decentralization of miners from countries that already have a >> lot of miners like China (if it is patented in China). >> >> On 01/04/16 10:00, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote: >> >> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 09:41:40PM -0700, Timo Hanke via bitcoin-dev wrote: >> >> Hi. >> >> I'd like to announce a white paper that describes a very new and >> significant algorithmic improvement to the Bitcoin mining process which has >> never been discussed in public before. The white paper can be found here: >> http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Timo.Hanke/AsicBoostWhitepaperrev5.pdf >> >> What steps are you going to take to make sure that this improvement is >> available to all ASIC designers/mfgs on a equal opportunity basis? >> >> The fact that you've chosen to patent this improvement could be a >> centralization concern depending on the licensing model used. For example, >> one >> could imagine a licensing model that gave one manufacture exclusive rights. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bitcoin-dev mailing >> listbitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.orghttps://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bitcoin-dev mailing list >> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >> >> >
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