Only someone with a paid agenda or a recent brainosuction would ignore these simple facts:
1. BU miners have already threatened to attack and destroy the non-BU chain after a split, this is documented
2. BU miners under Bitmain lead, have ASICBOOST, so they can invoke a 30% gain at any given time, on their own miners
3. Now Antbleed has been revealed; a method that, until 48 hours ago, could have been used to destroy everyone elses Antminer on the planet at their discretion
There is no certainty, but there is certainly a possibility, to combine 2+3, to achieve 1, which would be the destruction of the alternative chain, at least a temporary disruption, that could be the edge required to turn their BU chain into the winner.
Am I paranoid again?
1. BU miners have already threatened to attack and destroy the non-BU chain after a split, this is documented
2. BU miners under Bitmain lead, have ASICBOOST, so they can invoke a 30% gain at any given time, on their own miners
3. Now Antbleed has been revealed; a method that, until 48 hours ago, could have been used to destroy everyone elses Antminer on the planet at their discretion
There is no certainty, but there is certainly a possibility, to combine 2+3, to achieve 1, which would be the destruction of the alternative chain, at least a temporary disruption, that could be the edge required to turn their BU chain into the winner.
Am I paranoid again?
Fact. They stalled shipping of L3+'s for a month plus due to 'firmware problem'. They really used them to mine themselves and stalled the units to paid customers to use them to stop seq witness till consensus. A nice payday. Run diff up by 33% to boot. The April 15th folk are getting units now with Jan dated firmware on them, so that surely was a lie now.
An added benifit is this patch will get rid of the nasty Jan date on the firmware to boot.
Bitmain. Evil pays. (tm bitmain)