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Well some of the big blockers are against anything that'd prevent ASICBoost (which is a really fun/neat thing, look up the details if you haven't.) That does ca
by MichaelGG 9y ago
Well some of the big blockers are against anything that'd prevent ASICBoost (which is a really fun/neat thing, look up the details if you haven't.) That does cast some suspicion on the purity of their motives. But I think the slightly-larger blocksize (8MB) for now is quite reasonable, and the lack of even 2MB size is really indefensible.
- smokeyj 9y agoI don't know much about ASICBoost - but if the reason for changing the PoW algo is because of the US patent system.. then let the US patent system catch up, not the other way around. Bitcoin wasn't designed so that American miners have an equal opportunity.. Who comes up with these ideas
- MichaelGG 9y agoParents aside, I understand AsicBoost encourages empty blocks.