The second like "2)" has a link to the paper:
http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Timo.Hanke/AsicBoostWhitepaperrev5.pdf

which does discuss the fact that it is "patent-pending".   Likewise it discusses ASIC improvements.  Avoiding patents that impact bitcoin and are not freely licensed, is something that is worthwhile for discussion. 


On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Sergio Demian Lerner via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:


On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
As part of the hard-fork proposed in the HK agreement(1) we'd like to make the
patented AsicBoost optimisation useless, and hopefully make further similar
optimizations useless as well.


You say that you want to make patented optimization useless, but you point to a link that doesn't say anything about ASIC improvements or patents, which means that you have been planning to change the protocol rules with some miners (but not all the community). 

All changes to the protocol should be discussed in public here. If you want to make "further similar optimizations useless as well" then maybe you should propose a switch to EquiHash.

 

1) https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/bitcoin-roundtable-consensus-266d475a61ff

2) http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2016-April/012596.html

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