I disagree. The use of the ASICBoost mechanism prevents improvements to
the Bitcoin network. It is not an optimization of the mining process. In fact, it
uses a short cut or loophole.When GPUs became ASICs that is somewhat acceptable,
since that was a true optimization in technology.ASICBoost exploits a failing in PoW
which creates non-mining and far reaching problems for the community.
It is one thing to create new mining devices to beat your competitors, its another to
find "zero-days" which could be used to beat your competitor as well as prevent
further expansion of the bitcoin code in ways that even Satoshi envisioned.
prevent improvements?
seriously..!!
then gmaxwell should could program new code to fix it.
blaming hardware is no excuse for sloppy code.
especially when the code doesnt live up to ANY of its promises anyway.
It is not about Maxwell and SegWit.
It is about restricting certain avenues of development because a miner took a risk and lost.
You are advocating that this miner is "too big to fail" and so the community needs to bail them out.
The community should not be subjected to this miner's bad business decisions.
That is anti-Bitcoin and anti-Satoshi. We are not Ethereum.
Optimizations are acceptable, "zero-day" like exploits in PoW is playing fast and loose.
It needs to be patched. In time the mining community will likely agree.