Quote from: valiron on April 10, 2017, 04:58:37 PM

That's your opinion. Thank you. We all have one. Some of us even have arguments.

It is my opinion, it is a fact stated in the asicboost paper itself:

Quote from: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.00575.pdf

Through gate count reduction on the silicon AsicBoost improves two essential Bitcoin mining
cost metrics simultaneously and by a similar factor: the energy consumption (Joule per Gh) and
the system cost ($ per Gh/s). With the system cost being proportional to the capital expenses of
a Bitcoin mine and the energy consumption being proportional to its operating expenses,
AsicBoost reduces the total cost per bitcoin mined by approximately 20%.

Asicboost does not make existing GH/s somehow mine blocks faster without change the GH/s (in fact, it can't even effect non-asicboost chips because it is partially a hardware optimization). It makes the cost per GH/s lower.

Quote from: valiron on April 10, 2017, 04:58:37 PM

Can you explain why the old thread has been locked by moderation?

No, I can't. I was not a moderator at that time. It was probably locked because the topic was beaten to death.