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Thu Apr 06 22:23:56 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> probably
Thu Apr 06 22:23:17 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> funkenstein_: afaik the older asics have mostly ended up in landfill / gold reclamation (also big biz in cn) by nao.
Thu Apr 06 22:22:52 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> 3) if you don't piss on patents, you are an idiot, see (2)
Thu Apr 06 22:22:40 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> ^ chinese currently in the process of learning
Thu Apr 06 22:22:31 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> 2) if you mine, and anyone else knows that you mine, you are an idiot
Thu Apr 06 22:22:19 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> ^ chinese finally learned this 2-3 yrs ago
Thu Apr 06 22:22:13 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> and... 1) if you make asics, and sell them (instead of mining yourself) you are an idiot
Thu Apr 06 22:21:14 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> ^ from horse's mouth.
Thu Apr 06 22:21:07 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> 'In order to be able to reuse Message Schedule 1 across multiple work items, AsicBoost generates many block header candidates that all share a common Message part. In other words, the many block header candidates differ from each other only in chunk 1. The work items derived from these block header candidates then all share a common Message component and differ only in the Midstate component.' << screamingly obvious trick, t
Thu Apr 06 22:21:07 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> o anyone with half a brain and any interest in the subject
Thu Apr 06 22:20:12 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> all patent sc4mz0rz will swear that 'everybody else paid, now pony up'
Thu Apr 06 22:19:54 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> i wasn't there, didn't see.
Thu Apr 06 22:19:49 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> supposedly it was nonobvious. supposedly someone, somewhere, paid.
Thu Apr 06 22:19:34 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> for this quite obvious optimization.
Thu Apr 06 22:19:22 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> and -- supposedly -- some gullible asic makers paid for license.
Thu Apr 06 22:19:05 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> some snake oil d00d managed to get a bogus patent (trivial in, e.g., usa) on the idea of precomputing context prior to hashing, and reusing.
Thu Apr 06 22:17:25 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> not even
Thu Apr 06 22:15:39 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> through power of miracle
Thu Apr 06 22:14:37 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> 'attack'
Thu Apr 06 22:14:35 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> funkenstein_: old snore