You answer for me? That's part of your moderation duties?
A healthy moderation should stay neutral and not participate in the discussions, nor lock threads.
Now that is a load of bullshit. You mean to say that moderators are not allowed to participate in discussion in which they are interested and have expertise in? Moderators are participants in this forum too, and were posters before they became moderators. I am posting as myself, not as a moderator, nor am I posting on behalf of the forum.
I think you have been the only one to mention "asicboost". Do you have any statistical evidence for the possibility you claim?
Reverse engineering has found that the mining chips used in Bitmain's Antminer S9's and R4's (and perhaps more, I don't know off of the top of my head) contain the circuitry necessary for asicboost to work. It was also found that antpool and the publicly available firmware for the antminers contains the codepaths and api calls necessary for overt asicboost to work, and in fact people have managed to get their miners to use overt asicboost. See
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/63yo27/some_circumstantial_evidence_supporting_the_claim/dfy5o65/