Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Making AsicBoost irrelevant

From: Tom Harding <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 19:27:09 -0700

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.