On May 11, 2016 05:15, "Timo Hanke via bitcoin-dev" < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > Again: this is unlike the hypothetical persistence of two chains after a hardfork that is only contentious but doesn’t change the mining algorithm, the kind of hardfork you are proposing would guarantee the persistence of two chains.
If all users abandon the old rules, why would asicboost miners continue to spend energy on a chain that everybody else is ignoring? > To be more precise, if you change the block validation ruleset R to block validation ruleset S you have to make sure that every hardware that was capable of mining R-valid blocks is also capable of mining S-valid blocks. Why? No, this proposal, for example, may make patented asicboost hardware obsolete. I don't accept this claim as true, this is just your opinion. > > The only way out is to go the exact opposite way and to embrace as many optimizations as possible to the point where there are no more optimizations left to do, or hopefully getting very close to that point. What do you mean by "embrace" in the context of a patented optimization that one miner can prevent the rest from using?
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