Oh God... here we go again.. > > Again, lets remember that you personally proposed a BIP[1] that had the > effect > of aiding your ASICBOOST patent[2] without disclosing that fact in your > BIP nor > your pull-req[3]. > > This is false. The first sentence of the BIP states: "There are incentives for miners to find cheap, non-standard ways to generate new work which are not in the best interest of the protocol".
The BIP actually PROTECTS the network from stealth Shared-Nonce mining and the fact you rejected it made the Bitcoin network LESS secure because now we just don't know at what extent it is in use. Shared-nonce mining can be done with or without that BIP/pull-req. We didn't disclose more in the BIP because it was not clear if shared-nonce mining (the fact that Bitcoin had a design flaw) would have a negative affect on Bitcoin price. ASICBoost patent may be a patent that protects Bitcoiners from mining centralization: ASICBoost is the only company that at this point showed interest in licensing the technology. But I do not control ASICBoost nor the patent so I cannot do anything about it. I propose we as a community do a crowdfund to try to license it from that company (or any other that wants to put theirs in the deal) and put all in public domain.
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