Why would a miner who is not bitmain use ASICBOOST on antpool? I don't think it produces more shares, so anypool would pay out the same as if it was not being used, and additional investment would have to be made on the part of the miner.
Because you need a stratum server that supports ASICBOOST for it to work. Currently only antpool does, but there is rumours slush may add support for it. It doesn't pay out more shares but reduces power consumption.
I'm not saying bitmain is mining on antpool. I have no idea if they are nor have I any idea if they use ASICBoost for their farms. I'm saying normal joe bloggs has figured out how to turn on asicboost and is using it on antpool.
i'm confused... before i heard there is no pool that allows it... then someone else mentioned that : that would be overt mining, and this is covert asicboost... so does overt vs covert require the pool configuration?? You sound like youre somewhat knowledgeable, ... i still think its all a huge distraction from scaling and bigger blocks, but its interesting, so give us the gangster deets.
https://blog.bitmain.com/en/regarding-recent-allegations-smear-campaigns/
Bitmain admits they have used it on a test network but not for actual mining. The only issue I see around asicboost is Bitmain holds a patent on it, at least in China. Other than that, I all for whatever can be done to reduce the amount of work necessary to find a block. However I'm in the process of writing my third miner and I may decide to build a hardware implementation of it. These though are for my own use as I really dislike supporting software, that is what I do for a living I don't need to do it for my own personal business.
It is true that bitmain has released a statement that they have not used asicboost on actual mining but rather on a test network. But there was one person who said that he is going to attack the core developer and he is doing it by using asicboost. Thus if Jihan has already started using it on the actual mining does it mean that bitmain is lying or Jihan is not connected to bitmain. Which is true, any ideas guys?
Many more options exist for example:
1) You are lying
2) You are crazy
3) Someone else lied or made up crap and you are repeating it.
Seriously ... Asicboost or no asicboost really doesn't make a difference. It is someone's imagination that asicboost will let Bitmain control the Bitcoin network. I simple won't happen. They need a lot more than 20% boost in performance to do that, and that is assuming asicboost actually works.