People seem to be assuming that AsicBoost won&#x27;t be licensed, but I don&#x27;t see why not. If they&#x27;re smart the license fee will be around half the speedup so that it&#x27;s still rational to pay.<p>There is some precedent in Prof. Tyrell&#x27;s optimized FPGA miner that charged a 5% license fee. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tricone-mining.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tricone-mining.com&#x2F;</a> (And I don&#x27;t remember anyone trying to fork him out.)