RE: https://www.coindesk.com/bank-america-files-3-new-blockchain-patents/?utm_content=bufferdfcab&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

I've been wondering this for awhile. Can these patents go through if they are built on top of open source code?

A quick read through some of the applications don't sit well with me. They remind me of the 'shopping cart' patents and a lot of those early patents that were granted and later used by troll attorneys.

My fear is that sometime down the road we ( any crypto developer ) could be accused of patent infringement because of the broad scope of how these patents are being applied for, and is there anything the crypto community can do to insure that doesn't happen.

I've been setting up a p2pool instance (latest version from github repo) on litecoin test network and am finding some things that I'm trying to work through:


a)The stratum difficulty code that adjusts for scrypt difficulty differneces were removed
 -this is causing buckets of shares being rejected by p2pool as above the target, when they are not and are actually valid

b)There is code to make P2pool BIP101,CSV compliant which reports block version numbers differently
 -this submits blocks to the blockchain, which are accepted, with version numbers like "536870912"
 -I'm not sure what other effects its having.

My thought is to revert the code, my tests show that this fixes the issues caused by these changes, but I'm wondering if I'm not missing something.

Does anyone know if the blocks are valid version 4 blocks? Or are there changes that I can't find which would make them something different?

Is there some reason that the difficulty adjustment code was backed out?

Anyone know what's up with this? Or a reason I shouldn' t revert?

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Last edit: 2021-02-05

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Is anyone else getting an 'invalid address' error when trying to withdraw?

I would post this in the correct forum....but....you know.

TIA