You can't protect against third parties with patents - that's better addressed through patent licensing pools like the Open Invention Network. You're basically just trying to reassure users that they can trust the participants in the process not to have ulterior motives. 3/12
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The other two coauthors remain anonymous, and as per Kristy a group of around 40 anons have contributed in various ways (whether "hard" or "soft"). None of these actors will be bound to any CLA or DCO. To my knowledge, this will be first EIP accepted into Ethereum from anons.
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And it is a change to the most economically critical element of Ethereum - the POW algorithm - with this change steering perhaps ~$1B worth of economic activity per year. How this EIP can be passed boggles my mind. Truly. IP risk. Economic risk. Bad actor association.
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Yep, I followed that a bit, but it's important not to let specifics like this be the rationale for new policies, even if they are a motivator.
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No - not the rationale in itself. ETC has sufficient social defence to see off this specific threat without any change of formal process. It was just a reminder to me that we needed to make this systemic change as well, in case of similar future scenarios. Build city walls!
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