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

From: Gregory Maxwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 00:02:08 +0000

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:01 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> Secondly, we can probably make the consensus PoW allow blocks to be mined using
> both the existing PoW algorithm, and a very slightly tweaked version where
> implementing AsicBoost gives no advantage. That removes any incentive to
> implement AsicBoost, without making any hardware obsolete

Taking that a step further, the old POW could continue to be accepted
but with a 20% target penalty. (or vice versa, with the new POW having
a 20% target boost.)