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On May 11, 2016 7:33 PM, "Peter Todd" <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> The optimisation has been independently discovered two or three times
(Spondoolies and maybe Bitmain).
The idea that a precedent can be set, whereby those who seek or are awarded
mining optimization patents risk retaliatory consensus changes, is very
unrealistic, and such a precedent would actually encode a dependency on the
insane patent systems of the world into the protocol development process.
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On May 11, 2016 7:33 PM, "Peter Todd" <<a href=3D"mailto:pete@=
petertodd.org">pete@petertodd.org</a>> wrote:</p>
<p dir=3D"ltr">> The optimisation has been independently discovered two =
or three times (Spondoolies and maybe Bitmain).</p>
<p dir=3D"ltr">The idea that a precedent can be set, whereby those who seek=
or are awarded mining optimization patents risk retaliatory consensus chan=
ges, is very unrealistic, and such a precedent would actually encode a depe=
ndency on the insane patent systems of the world into the protocol developm=
ent process.<br>
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