Making AsicBoost irrelevant



Summary:

On May 10, 2016, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev proposed a hard-fork as part of the HK agreement. AsicBoost optimization, which is patented, would be made useless with this hard-fork. The hope is to also render further similar optimizations useless.


Updated on: 2023-06-11T05:18:03.914161+00:00