Yes. It'd also be interesting if there was a way to turn the hashers off and on intermittently (does it try again after receiving a "false"? don't feel like reading the code right now). This would be a good way to sell hardware but still preserve their control over hash power by causing devices to have some idle time, which means more blocks and shares from pools for themselves.
While this is obviously a big problem, it is a little bit of a vindication for me, because people have scoffed when I've expressed concerns that bitcoin mining is too centralized. [0]
And if one ASIC vendor can do this, what could a government do? [1]
While this is obviously a big problem, it is a little bit of a vindication for me, because people have scoffed when I've expressed concerns that bitcoin mining is too centralized. [0]
And if one ASIC vendor can do this, what could a government do? [1]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14040165
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14166820