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

From: Marek Palatinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 15:08:57 +0200

Ehm, I though those discussions about "ASICs are bad, because X" ended
years ago by starting "ASIC unfriendly" altcoins. ASIC industry is twisted
even without AsicBoost. I don't see any particular reason why to change
rules just because of 10% edge.

This is opening Pandora box and it is potentially extremely dangerous for
the health of the network. You cannot know in advance what you'll break by
changing the rules.

Disclaimer: I don't have any stake in any ASIC company/facility.

slush

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Sergio Demian Lerner via bitcoin-dev <
[email-masked]> wrote:

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> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Sergio Demian Lerner <
> [email-masked]> wrote:
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>> You can find it here:
>> https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/the-re-design-of-the-bitcoin-block-header/
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>> Basically, the idea is to put in the first 64 bytes a 4 byte hash of the
>> second 64-byte chunk. That design also allows increased nonce space in the
>> first 64 bytes.
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>> My mistake here. I didn't recalled correctly my own idea. The idea is to
> include in the second 64-byte chunk a 4-byte hash of the first chunk, not
> the opposite.
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