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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: bitmain and asicboost/segwit
by
ebliever
on 06/04/2017, 16:17:00 UTC
this is probably obvious but i havent seen a clear yes/no answer on this:

if segwit activates on btc (fat chance) will bitmains recent asics stop hashing? if so which models?

My understanding is the ASICs from Bitmain will still work, they just lose their advantage.

My understanding is also that most miners using Bitmain hardware did not know about ASICBoost or have it enabled on their setups, that it was kept secret for the personal benefit of Jihan Wu and his close associates (I'm assuming Ver was on the inside circle). But I'd appreciate correction/corroboration on this point.