There has been some discussion on the new Bitcoin
StackExchange site lately about the alert protocol. A few
have suggested that it might carry the potential for abuse
(spam/DoS) and others have argued that it's merely deprecated. In
any case, enough have voiced concerns that I've forked
bitcoin/bitcoin, removed the snippet of code from main.cpp that
makes the questionable call and submitted a pull request.
On that pull request it was noted by Gavin Andresen that it
merited discussion here and some kind of consensus should be
reached before acting on that pull request. It was also mentioned
that he thought the feature was still more useful than dangerous
and that he would argue against.
So I pose the question to you fine fellows: Is the alert
system valuable, an unnecessary risk or merely a snippet of
deprecated code? Should it be removed?
Sources:
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