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

From: Peter Todd <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 01:58:06 +0000

On 11 May 2016 21:23:21 GMT-04:00, Russell O'Connor via bitcoin-dev <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Is the design and manufacturing processes for the most power efficient
>ASICs otherwise patent unencumbered?  If not, why do we care so much
>about
>this one patent over all the others that stand on the road between pen
>and
>paper computation and thermodynamically ideal computation?

If others are found that are significant I think we'd definitely consider fighting them as well.