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From: Milly Bitcoin <milly@bitcoins.info>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Significant losses by double-spending unconfirmed transactions
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:57:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55A6BB27.6000003@bitcoins.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150715193259.GC3064@muck>

> (note how Chainalysis's actions were
> described(1) as a sybil attack by multiple Bitcoin devs, including
> Gregory Maxwell, Wladimir van der Laan, and myself)

As far as I know none of those people are security experts nor do they 
engage in systematic risk and threat analysis.  Simply because they are 
experts in Bitcoin development does not make them expert in other areas. 
  Many of those involved in Bitcoin think that because they know Bitcoin 
that they somehow have become experts in other areas.  That is one 
reason why so many Bitcoin companies have been hacked.

An "attack" according to ISO/IEC 27000 "is any attempt to destroy, 
expose, alter, disable, steal or gain unauthorized access to or make 
unauthorized use of an asset."  The situation you are describing is not 
an "attack," they are providing a service.  Satoshi Dice is also not 
"spam," it is again providing a service within the rules set forth in 
the software.  The people going around claiming these are "spam" and 
"attacks" spend too much time of Reddit or they have an ulterior motive. 
  In any case these baseless accusations and arguments waste inordinate 
amounts of time.

Russ





  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-15 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-15  3:29 [bitcoin-dev] Significant losses by double-spending unconfirmed transactions simongreen
2015-07-15 14:35 ` Tom Harding
2015-07-15 15:18   ` Peter Todd
2015-07-15 15:49     ` Me
2015-07-15 15:53       ` Bastiaan van den Berg
2015-07-15 15:59       ` Peter Todd
2015-07-15 16:06         ` Me
2015-07-15 16:11           ` Pieter Wuille
2015-07-15 16:41             ` Me
2015-07-15 16:12         ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-15 18:25           ` Matthieu Riou
2015-07-15 19:32             ` Peter Todd
2015-07-15 19:57               ` Milly Bitcoin [this message]
2015-07-16  0:08               ` Matthieu Riou
2015-07-16  5:18                 ` odinn
2015-07-17 11:59                 ` Peter Todd
2015-07-17 12:56                   ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-15 17:01 ` Adrian Macneil
2015-07-16 14:30 ` Arne Brutschy
2015-07-16 14:50   ` Me
2015-07-16 15:33     ` Greg Schvey
2015-07-18 11:43   ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-18 15:09     ` Peter Todd

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