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2023-06-07 17:53:41

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📅 Original date posted:2016-10-02
📝 Original message:On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 12:49:08PM -0300, Sergio Demian Lerner via bitcoin-dev wrote:

I think your history of patenting(1) Bitcoin consensus relevant technology is
sufficient by itself to be extremely dubious of any proposals coming from you
or your colleagues; patents on Bitcoin consensus technology are a serious
threat to decentralization. Personally, I'm NACKing this proposal on that basis
alone.

You need to rectify this dangerous and unethical behavior in a convincing,
legally binding way. I'd suggest looking into Blockstream's patent pledges as a
way forward:

https://www.blockstream.com/about/patent_pledge/

I see no reason to have any further discussion of your proposal until this is
rectified.

1) "AsicBoost is a patent-pending method to improve the efficiency and cost of Bitcoin mining by approximately 20%"
http://www.asicboost.com/single-post/2016/03/24/AsicBoost-Press-Release

> Since ScalingBitcoin is close, I think this is a good moment to publish our
> proposal on drivechains. This BIP proposed the drivechain we'd like to use
> in RSK (a.k.a. Rootstock) two-way pegged blockchain and see it implemented

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https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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