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Maxwell Discovers Covert Use of AsicBoost, Encourages SegWit Activation as Solution

Thu Apr 06, 2017 9:26 pm

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On April 6, Blockstream CTO and Bitcoin Core developer Greg Maxwell revealed on the Bitcoin development mailing list that a specific ASIC miner manufacturer had been covertly using AsicBoost to increase its mining revenue by at least 30 percent; many sources have reported it is indeed Bitmain, perhaps explaining their inertia regarding SegWit...

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