From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Ittay <ittay.eyal@cornell.edu>
Cc: "Bitcoin Dev" <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>,
"Gavin Andresen" <gavin@bitcoinfoundation.org>,
"Emin Gün Sirer" <egs@systems.cs.cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP proposal - patch to raise selfish mining threshold.
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 18:54:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP0itd3xW7yyg9FBJVuJNttcmMhnqWGOaWxjz37ATrR8qA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABT1wW=XgDfxfxMxyjcNhtNTzXkGLtgSLz3JJcUAq9ywgpymyg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Ittay <ittay.eyal@cornell.edu> wrote:
> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-05 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-05 16:56 [Bitcoin-development] BIP proposal - patch to raise selfish mining threshold Ittay
2013-11-05 17:05 ` Peter Todd
2013-11-05 17:14 ` Peter Todd
2013-11-05 17:43 ` Ittay
2013-11-05 17:54 ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2013-11-05 18:07 ` Alessandro Parisi
2013-11-05 18:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-11-05 18:55 ` Alessandro Parisi
2013-11-05 18:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-11-05 19:33 ` Jameson Lopp
2013-11-05 19:56 ` Peter Todd
2013-11-05 17:26 ` Ittay
2013-11-05 17:37 ` Patrick
2013-11-05 18:18 ` Alessandro Parisi
2013-11-05 18:57 ` Jeremy Spilman
2013-11-05 22:49 ` Ittay
2013-11-07 20:05 ` [Bitcoin-development] comments on selfish-mining model (Re: BIP proposal - patch to raise selfish mining threshold.) Adam Back
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