Luke Dashjr [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2017-04-08 📝 Original message:On Saturday, April 08, ...
📅 Original date posted:2017-04-08
📝 Original message:On Saturday, April 08, 2017 3:17:47 PM Jimmy Song wrote:
> Overt ASICBoost is allowed on the network already. Until a proposal
> explicitly blocking overt ASICBoost as a soft fork is activated, this seems
> to be better than the current state which is that overt ASICBoost is
> allowed, but at a cost to BIP9 signals.
No, it isn't allowed right now. Doing it wouldn't invalidate blocks, but it
would clearly be an attack on the network and cause harm. The same as if
miners were to maliciously mine only empty blocks.
Luke
📝 Original message:On Saturday, April 08, 2017 3:17:47 PM Jimmy Song wrote:
> Overt ASICBoost is allowed on the network already. Until a proposal
> explicitly blocking overt ASICBoost as a soft fork is activated, this seems
> to be better than the current state which is that overt ASICBoost is
> allowed, but at a cost to BIP9 signals.
No, it isn't allowed right now. Doing it wouldn't invalidate blocks, but it
would clearly be an attack on the network and cause harm. The same as if
miners were to maliciously mine only empty blocks.
Luke