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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] Drivechain proposal using OP_COUNT_ACKS
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 14:00:01 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdR-qsj80cuq27YP0hCXtSL734G4QatmopLANpynvQYNRU=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161002161717.GA13915@fedora-21-dvm>

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Peter, are you really going to try to down vote a decent free and
open-source proposal that benefits all the Bitcoin community including
you and your future children because a personal attack to me without any
logic or basis?

Is that the way you collaborate to improving Bitcoin?

I just can't believe it.

Let's open another thread elsewhere to discuss hardware and software
patents, and that particular one, if you wish, this is NOT the place.



On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd•org> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 12:49:08PM -0300, Sergio Demian Lerner via
> bitcoin-dev wrote:
>
> I think your history of patenting(1) Bitcoin consensus relevant technology
> is
> sufficient by itself to be extremely dubious of any proposals coming from
> you
> or your colleagues; patents on Bitcoin consensus technology are a serious
> threat to decentralization. Personally, I'm NACKing this proposal on that
> basis
> alone.
>
> You need to rectify this dangerous and unethical behavior in a convincing,
> legally binding way. I'd suggest looking into Blockstream's patent pledges
> as a
> way forward:
>
>     https://www.blockstream.com/about/patent_pledge/
>
> I see no reason to have any further discussion of your proposal until this
> is
> rectified.
>
> 1) "AsicBoost is a patent-pending method to improve the efficiency and
> cost of Bitcoin mining by approximately 20%"
>    http://www.asicboost.com/single-post/2016/03/24/AsicBoost-Press-Release
>
> > Since ScalingBitcoin is close, I think this is a good moment to publish
> our
> > proposal on drivechains. This BIP proposed the drivechain we'd like to
> use
> > in RSK (a.k.a. Rootstock) two-way pegged blockchain and see it
> implemented
>
> --
> https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-02 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-02 15:49 Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-10-02 16:17 ` Peter Todd
2016-10-02 17:00   ` Sergio Demian Lerner [this message]
2016-10-02 17:11     ` Peter Todd
2016-10-02 17:18       ` Andrew Johnson
2016-10-02 17:24         ` Peter Todd
2016-10-02 21:28         ` Luke Dashjr
2016-10-02 21:46           ` Russell O'Connor
2016-10-02 22:36             ` Sergio Demian Lerner
     [not found]               ` <CAMZUoKnE9VNnUHrDTtZOroBp=SC_eY1fEAsEOz=4b1=5v_wHaA@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-02 23:00                 ` [bitcoin-dev] Fwd: " Russell O'Connor
     [not found]                 ` <CAKzdR-oxpDdXEcPTYtj6os58cVMgwoqyXvu5UMMQzD3QbvMtxA@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-02 23:26                   ` [bitcoin-dev] " Russell O'Connor
2016-10-02 21:54           ` Russell O'Connor
2016-10-02 17:26       ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-10-02 17:34         ` Peter Todd
2016-10-02 18:17 ` Russell O'Connor
2016-10-24 17:37 ` Johnson Lau
2016-10-25 16:38   ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2016-10-25 17:45     ` Johnson Lau

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