The second like "2)" has a link to the paper: http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Timo.Hanke/AsicBoostWhitepaperrev5.pdf
which does discuss the fact that it is "patent-pending". Likewise it discusses ASIC improvements. Avoiding patents that impact bitcoin and are not freely licensed, is something that is worthwhile for discussion. On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Sergio Demian Lerner via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev < > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > >> As part of the hard-fork proposed in the HK agreement(1) we'd like to >> make the >> patented AsicBoost optimisation useless, and hopefully make further >> similar >> optimizations useless as well. >> >> >> You say that you want to make patented optimization useless, but you > point to a link that doesn'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). > > All changes to the protocol should be discussed in public here. If you > want to make "further similar optimizations useless as well" then maybe you > should propose a switch to EquiHash. > > > >> >> 1) >> https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/bitcoin-roundtable-consensus-266d475a61ff >> >> 2) >> http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-April/012596.html >> >> -- >> https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bitcoin-dev mailing list >> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org >> https://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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