Return-Path: Received: from [192.168.1.101] (ool-45726efb.dyn.optonline.net. [69.114.110.251]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id c189sm427941qkb.7.2017.06.15.09.57.18 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 15 Jun 2017 09:57:19 -0700 (PDT) To: info@getechlaw.com From: Paul Sztorc Subject: Licensing / Purchase of ASICBoost Patent Message-ID: <8e1f9021-e897-b4df-657b-dc08e9398d2d@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:57:25 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To whom it may concern, My name is Paul Sztorc, I am a prominent Bitcoin researcher and technologist. According to some, the ASICBOOST patent is currently be causing problems for the Bitcoin ecosystem. One way to make this headache go away, would be for someone to purchase the patent (in full) and, as a gesture of charity, place ASICBOOST into the public domain. Please think carefully - the patent may be worthless if the Core Developers alter the Bitcoin software so that ASICBoost cannot be used (which is precisely what many influential developers intend to do). Moreover, it is obvious that an overwhelming portion of miners (often situated in China) are already ignoring the patent and intend to do so in the future. As a direct result, these miners may drive competitors out of business, at which point *all* active Bitcoin miners would be using ASICboost, for free...in which case the patent is, again, worthless. However, I have rich friends who may want to bury this issue for political reasons. You may be able to profit handsomely from an otherwise worthless patent, purely as a result of short-lived political circumstances. If you are interested, please let me know your expectations. Thank you for your time, Paul