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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Thomas Zander <thomas@thomaszander.se>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or "If We Do Nothing" Analysis
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:43:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150724174320.GB25947@savin.petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2275059.uyAkQvreAU@coldstorage>

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On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 03:39:08PM +0200, Thomas Zander via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On Friday 24. July 2015 05.37.30 Slurms MacKenzie via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > It's worth noting that even massive companies with $30M USD of funding don't
> > run a single Bitcoin Core node,
> 
> I assume you mean that they don't have a Bitcoin Core node that is open to 
> incoming connections. Since that is the only thing you can actually test, no?

We can test the fact that blockchain.info's wallet and block explorer
has behaved in a way consistent with not running a full node - they have
shown invalid data that any full node would reject on multiple
occasions, most recently invalid confirmations during the BIP66 fork.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-24 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-24  2:57 [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or "If We Do Nothing" Analysis Dave Scotese
2015-07-24  3:37 ` Slurms MacKenzie
2015-07-24 11:38   ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-24 14:09     ` Adam Back
2015-07-24 15:22       ` Simon Liu
2015-07-24 17:40       ` Peter Todd
2015-07-24 20:28         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24 20:31           ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24 15:08     ` Dave Scotese
2015-07-24 13:39   ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-24 17:43     ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-07-24 20:23       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24 21:12       ` Slurms MacKenzie
2015-07-24 15:40 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-25  2:23 Dave Scotese
2015-07-25 11:19 ` Slurms MacKenzie

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