[timq]

> - Segwit actualy block harmful form of ASICBOOST

It's - of course - not the only solution to this "problem", but somehow this paper doesn't propose anything else other than segwit, and his conclusion is a typical Bitcoin Core propaganda.

> by "growing majority" you mean handful of chinese miners and 2% of nodes (http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/softwar...)

You aren't without knowing that in Bitcoin, miners establish consensus by voting with their hashrate. Nodes count doesn't prove anything because its really easy to host a node. The point is: there is more miners supporting BU than Segwit [1].

[1]: http://xtnodes.com/#bitcoin_classic_blocks

[midmagico]

> but somehow this paper doesn't propose anything else other than segwit

Literally there's another solution that has nothing to do with Segwit. gmax himself proposed it to block off covert ASICBoost. Here's a link:

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017...

Also, miners do not establish consensus. That is why if a miner mines an invalid block, even if other miners extend it, no nodes will accept it.