Found it... Surprised no one else bothered to Google it...
https://www.google.com/patents/WO2015077378A1?cl=en
The fact that it lists Timo Tobias HANKE, Sergio Demian Lerner as the Authors suggests to me that Bitmain bought the rights to it (for in China). Hmm. The Plot thickens.
Filed Nov 19, 2014

I wonder if Bitmain's Chinese Patented method of using Merkle Collisions (I do like that name better...) lists your work and that of the ASICBoost Authors as Prior Art? I would hope that the Chinese Patent process would at least require mention of that...

... and much worse, change of PoW are being bantered around ...

Yes? It's a combination of giving those miners who want to signal the option to do so, and as a way to represent the remainder that have no opinion on the matter. Basically I'm saying a pool should either give miners a choice, or have a position.

Pools are the miners' voice and the miners are the only ones who can reliably activate substantial change. People want to either choose a pool based on what it's signalling or want the pool they're already loyal to to give them the option of signalling what they want. The fact that there are lots of miners that choose pools only due to profit doesn't change the fact that pools are the ones with the actual power to effect change. Pools should be proactive and ahead of what is happening in the bitcoin development space even if the miners are less inclined to be so.

Lack of more concrete messages from the pools is the reason garbage like User Activated Soft Fork and much worse, change of PoW are being bantered around. I understand there is potentially conflict since you're representing bitmain who have a (very unpopular) position of sorts, but you have said you're an independent entity.

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I like the idea of a memory-hard (Equihash?) PoW.

Another option would be a PoW that's randomized every retargeting period to make it ASIC-proof. A block hash would be used as the source of randomness.

Not meaning to thread-crap, but Guy offered to help (he remains the most helpful person in the crypto community, btw). Thanks to the whole Spondoolies crew for building the SP30 and SP20. My impression has been that second-hand demand for them is still high, even today.

I run HashPlex, a mining company in WA. We're looking for an M&A partner to get to scale (we're sorta stuck at 1MW with 7+ on tap). Everything we've built was custom-designed and built from the ground up (no retrofit jankery) with top-shelf new equipment (SquareD I-Line, etc.). The evap system consumes 8000 gallons of water in 12 hours and drops intake temps 25F. 100A / phase, 3-phase, switched, fused, current logging PDUs. 650,000 CFM of filtered air per MW. Lots more.

If you're interested in scooping up a datacenter for pennies on the dollar or working out a long-term lease etc. get in touch. We'll probably close a deal in the next couple months.

Some mining pr0n to make things more fun:

Good to see you are still around Guy. Happy new year !

That was my first impression too, but I believe that the proposed Spectre protocol for Bitcoin is completely different from the new cryptocurrency SPECTRE based on Shadowcash.

What is your take on SPECTRE?

In Two Weeks.

_*ducks*