From: Sergio Demian Lerner <sergio.d.lerner@gmail•com>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] DPL is not only not enough, but brings unfounded confidence to Bitcoin users
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:10:45 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdR-pp0K-kqHWBP6A_+Ze0x3Ye5c94M+gz+Tue1Q-v4R5hog@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161014105757.GA8049@fedora-21-dvm>
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Oh God... here we go again..
>
> Again, lets remember that you personally proposed a BIP[1] that had the
> effect
> of aiding your ASICBOOST patent[2] without disclosing that fact in your
> BIP nor
> your pull-req[3].
>
> This is false. The first sentence of the BIP states: "There are incentives
for miners to find cheap, non-standard ways to generate new work which are
not in the best interest of the protocol".
The BIP actually PROTECTS the network from stealth Shared-Nonce mining and
the fact you rejected it made the Bitcoin network LESS secure because now
we just don't know at what extent it is in use.
Shared-nonce mining can be done with or without that BIP/pull-req.
We didn't disclose more in the BIP because it was not clear if shared-nonce
mining (the fact that Bitcoin had a design flaw) would have a negative
affect on Bitcoin price.
ASICBoost patent may be a patent that protects Bitcoiners from mining
centralization: ASICBoost is the only company that at this point showed
interest in licensing the technology. But I do not control ASICBoost nor
the patent so I cannot do anything about it.
I propose we as a community do a crowdfund to try to license it from that
company (or any other that wants to put theirs in the deal) and put all in
public domain.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-14 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-14 10:38 Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-10-14 10:57 ` Peter Todd
2016-10-14 11:51 ` Daniel Robinson
2016-10-14 12:31 ` Peter Todd
2016-10-15 10:01 ` Tom Zander
2016-10-14 18:10 ` Sergio Demian Lerner [this message]
2016-10-14 19:01 ` Nick ODell
2016-10-14 21:07 ` Daniel Robinson
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