[ktorvald]

ASICBOOST doesn't seem to be as big of a deal as it's been made out to be. $2M in potential annual savings for a company, not the $100M greg claimed.

https://medium.com/@jimmysong/mining-profitability-and-asicb...

[StavrosK]

Why is it branded as savings? If they're 30% faster, that's 30% more profit, no?

[kobeya]

30% more revenue. And this is in a marginal industry. Bitmain can keep adding miners until the difficulty pushes all non-ASICBOOST miners out of business as their power costs exceed revenue, but Bitmain (who pays the same for power) would remain in business. This has already happened: see KNC miner.