Re: [bitcoin-dev] AsicBoost

2016-04-08 Thread Timo Hanke via bitcoin-dev
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 wro

Re: [bitcoin-dev] AsicBoost

2016-04-08 Thread Mustafa Al-Bassam via bitcoin-dev
It will prevent companies from legally selling mining rigs with the improvement, which stems access to the improvement in patented countries. Or miners can export rigs with the improvement from companies that sell it in non-patented countries. It is not purely a software thing - it is intended to

Re: [bitcoin-dev] AsicBoost

2016-04-08 Thread Marek Palatinus via bitcoin-dev
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 scenari

Re: [bitcoin-dev] AsicBoost

2016-04-05 Thread Mustafa Al-Bassam via bitcoin-dev
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 T

Re: [bitcoin-dev] AsicBoost

2016-04-01 Thread Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
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