And anyone who would have discovered it independently would have been free to implement it. That's the issue, not that there's an optimization.
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Tom Harding via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On 5/10/2016 2:43 PM, Sergio Demian Lerner via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > > > If we change the protocol then the message to the ecosystem is that > > ASIC optimizations should be kept secret. > > Further to that point, if THIS optimization had been kept secret, nobody > would be talking about doing anything, as with countless other > optimizations. > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >
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