Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making AsicBoost irrelevant

2016-05-12 Thread Jorge Timón via bitcoin-dev
On May 12, 2016 00:43, "Timo Hanke via bitcoin-dev" < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > This is what I meant. If existing hardware gets forked-out it will inevitably lead to the creation of an altcoin. Simply because the hardware exists and can't be used for anything else both chains

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making AsicBoost irrelevant

2016-05-12 Thread Allen Piscitello via bitcoin-dev
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 Lerne

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making AsicBoost irrelevant

2016-05-12 Thread Tom via bitcoin-dev
On Wednesday 11 May 2016 22:58:48 Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Timo Hanke via bitcoin-dev > > wrote: > > This is what I meant. If existing hardware gets forked-out it will > > inevitably lead to the creation of an altcoin. Simply because the hardware