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From: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org>
To: Andrew C <achow101@gmail.com>,
	 Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Completing the retirement of the alert system
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 15:36:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgRECo8VGQXaQEhJwZMsYYiP=2Ck3b3f45mT62fofL316w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf57ea1e-87b6-52ae-3f92-23e62f936592@gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Andrew C via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On 9/10/2016 5:41 AM, Johnson Lau via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> 3. After a few months or so, publish the private key.
> Why wait a few months? Why not just publish the key a few days after the
> final alert?

Because if you were offline at the time of the final alert, the alert
you may see instead is "Urgent security problem! Upgrade to
UltraBitcoin NOW! http://scamsite.info/", among other similar reasons.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-10 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-10  0:42 [bitcoin-dev] Completing the retirement of the alert system Gregory Maxwell
2016-09-10  0:54 ` Eric Voskuil
2016-09-10  0:58 ` Peter Todd
2016-09-10  1:48   ` Gregory Maxwell
2016-09-10  2:19     ` Peter Todd
2016-09-10  1:31 ` Andrew C
2016-09-10  5:51 ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2016-09-10  9:41 ` Johnson Lau
2016-09-10 13:23   ` Andrew C
2016-09-10 14:57     ` Johnson Lau
2016-09-10 15:36     ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]

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