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From: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@jtimon.cc>
To: Mustafa Al-Bassam <mus@musalbas.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 2 promotion to Final
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:59:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABm2gDogqtOkgtjWNY6vD_Cu=dnoATtLHBS+-E8BtrNTOsPCSg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56E17E67.9040508@musalbas.com>

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On Mar 10, 2016 16:51, "Mustafa Al-Bassam via bitcoin-dev" <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> I think in general this sounds like a good definition for a hard-fork
> becoming active. But I can envision a situation where someone will try
> to be annoying about it and point to one instance of one buyer and one
> seller using the blockchain to buy and sell from each other, or set one
up.

And all the attacker will achieve is preventing a field on a text file on
github from moving from "active" to "final".
Seems pretty stupid. Why would an attacker care so much about this? Is
there any way the attacker can make gains or harm bitcoin with this attack?

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-10 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-08 19:04 [bitcoin-dev] BIP 2 promotion to Final Luke Dashjr
2016-03-10  0:36 ` Mustafa Al-Bassam
2016-03-10 15:46   ` Jorge Timón
     [not found] ` <56E0BFDC.5070604@musalbas.com>
     [not found]   ` <201603100053.43822.luke@dashjr.org>
2016-03-10 14:02     ` Mustafa Al-Bassam
2016-03-10 15:59       ` Jorge Timón [this message]
2016-03-10 16:28         ` Mustafa Al-Bassam
2016-03-10 16:33           ` Mustafa Al-Bassam
2016-03-10 18:30           ` Jorge Timón
2016-03-10 16:43       ` Luke Dashjr
2016-03-16 20:43 ` Btc Drak
2016-03-16 22:24   ` Luke Dashjr
2016-03-18  9:42     ` Btc Drak
2016-03-18 19:34       ` Luke Dashjr
2016-03-18 22:52         ` David A. Harding
2016-03-18 11:59     ` Tom

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