I don't see BTU shills here. Appears not only Bitmain has an Antbleed and could shutdown antminers, but they also have a Shillbleed and can disable/anable their shills on demand.
Man, I was thinking the same thing, where's franky and jonald?
They are still translating the excuse from Chinese into English but can't figure out how to spin "BTCU or we kill your miners" in a positive light.
mention my name and i appear.
i was going to keep myself quiet because this indeed is a exploit risk unlike asicboost which is a efficiency
anyway achow and frodocooper the antbleed website has explained the issue and the fix
but as you all aware i do like to waffle my opinion when i can. which i was going to hold back on due to this topic originally being an actual risk that needs highlighting without derailing the topic.
but my name was mentioned.
seeing as the OP and first couple posts of topic has the fix aswell as an explaination and people have already started derailing the topic with "kill asics now" "PoW change" "sitting on landmines" we might aswell consider all posts just "post bumps" to keep the topic on front page so people tomorrow and so on know of the issue.
anyway
if you want to change PoW
then that involves a proper network consensus upgrade, which is a great opportunity to then do things properly like a 1merkle segwit which would give a 4mb baseblock and not need the 1mb base 4mb weight tier network cesspit creating crap.
(id prefer the 4mb block to be dynamic to not rely on any dev team to spoon feed limits in future)
aswell as a opportunity to really handle quadratics by keeping maxtxsigops down, eg:
4k or below so that the native key users dont gain more spammer causing headache (0.14: maxtxsigops 16k)
thus getting the community everything everyone wants. where native key users get 4mb block and segwit key users get to use segwit where everyone on the same level playing field.
yep no more core tier network concern.
no more band camp debate. but finally a community peer network not filled with half gestures and empty promises
P.S
you can try pigeon holing me into "chinese" or "btcu" all you want.
my opinion is about open diverse decentralised single peer network of many implementations. which has not changed in years
if the only thing you can do is try turning this topic into a "hate the chinese"(as a country) or point fingers at anything not core. then thats your bias.
but if you just want to waste a oppertunity of a proper ful network consensus upgrade just to kill asics. just realise that within a couple months the utopian dream asic killers think they will get of solo mining from their basement again wont last long because someone somewhere will find efficiency methods of any new system and within 6 months the its back to a new form of pool/syndicate/sybil mining groups