[bitcoin-dev] Yesterday's Taproot activation meeting on IRC

2021-02-03 Thread Michael Folkson via bitcoin-dev
Yesterday (February 2nd) we held a relatively unstructured meeting on Taproot activation on IRC which was open to all. The conversation log is here: http://gnusha.org/taproot-activation/2021-02-02.log The meeting was previously announced here:

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Libre/Open blockchain / cryptographic ASICs

2021-02-03 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via bitcoin-dev
On Wednesday, February 3, 2021, ZmnSCPxj wrote: > Good morning again Luke, :) > If you mean miner power usage, then power efficiency will not reduce energy consumption. > Thus, any rational miner will just pack more miners in the same number of watts rather than reduce their watt consumption.

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Libre/Open blockchain / cryptographic ASICs

2021-02-03 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via bitcoin-dev
(hi folks do cc me, i am subscribed digest, thank you for doing that, ZmnSCPxj) On Wednesday, February 3, 2021, ZmnSCPxj wrote: > Good morning Luke, > > I happen to have experience designing digital ASICs, mostly pipelined data processing. > However my experience is limited to larger geometries