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>I don't see ASCIBOOST as a real problem for Bitcoin. It often incentivizes miners to reorder or drop transactions until they hash to a specific value. (A certain mining pool is publishing a significant number of empty blocks.) Miners exist to verify transactions, and Bitcoin was designed with transaction fees in order to incentivize miners to include transactions. A competing force pushing miners away from including…
Reordering or dropping transactions is a non-issue. All you need to covertly implement Asicboost is dropping 2 random tx on the left side of the tree, and 2 on the right side (out of ~2000!) That's enough combinations to find enough partial merkle collisions. So at worst these 4 dropped collisions will be included in the next block because the next miner, even if he also implements Asicboost, will statistically almos…
4 patents (applications) from 4 different holders! This provides enough competing interests that it is even less likely that asicboost will ever turn out to be a "problem".