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From: Tier Nolan <tier.nolan@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Miners: You'll (very likely) need to upgrade your Bitcoin Core node soon to support BIP66
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 09:37:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE-z3OXMp6494BXeD0FcKPSriHHr+F6grH=tdhk45Ni1+FQ6ZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150612004058.GA14749@muck>

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Once the 75% threshold is reached, miners who haven't updated are at risk
of mining on invalid blocks.

If someone produces a version 3 block that violates the new rules, then
miners who haven't upgraded will end up wasting mining power building on
that block.

This could be used as an expensive way to attack miners who haven't
upgraded.  It is low risk of happening, since creating an invalid version 3
block costs 25BTC in hashing power and the miner who does it ends up
creating an invalid block.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-12  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-12  0:40 [Bitcoin-development] Miners: You'll (very likely) need to upgrade your Bitcoin Core node soon to support BIP66 Peter Todd
2015-06-12  8:37 ` Tier Nolan [this message]
2015-06-13 13:01   ` Pieter Wuille

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