Breaking Down Bitcoin's "AsicBoost Scandal"
Through a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) draft sent to the Bitcoin development mailing list last week, long-time Bitcoin Core developer and Blockstream co-founder and CTO Gregory Maxwell revealed that a Bitcoin mining hardware producer implemented the patented “AsicBoost” technology in its chips. While the specific manufacturer was not named in the email, it was easy to surmise that Maxwell was alluding to the Chinese mining giant Bitmain — a suspicion confirmed through a press release issued by the company the next day.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/br ... t-scandal/
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LiteCoinGuy
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[2017-04-13] Breaking Down Bitcoin's "AsicBoost Scandal"
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Re: [2017-04-13] Breaking Down Bitcoin's "AsicBoost Scandal"
it may be Rumors,
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