Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP proposal - patch to raise selfish mining threshold.

[Alessandro Parisi <startithub@gmail.com>]

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I agree with Ittay: when bugs are found, they must be fixed ASAP,
expecially when they affect a sensitive sw such as Bitcon; in IT security,
every flaw that is exploitable in abstract, is going to be exploited in
real, sooner or later, also taking into account the increasing parallel
computing power; beware of false sense of security

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2013/11/5 Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>

> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Ittay <ittay.eyal@cornell.edu> wrote:
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>> The attack can be easily hidden. And be sure that before today, today,
>> and after today, very smart people are at their computer planning attacks
>> on Bitcoin. Exploits must be published and fixed FAST.
>>
>
> I think it would be helpful if you actually implemented and pulled off
> this attack, by becoming the dominant miner capable of reversing spends at
> will. Then we'd know how quickly it can be done.
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