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From: Pedro Worcel <pedro@worcel.com>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Miners MiTM
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 11:02:21 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPS+U9-ze_-gcYh1WNVJ5h8AZ8owoQX=8OUgNcKnaxgvjxZATA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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Hi there,

I was wondering if you guys have come across this article:

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/isp-bitcoin-theft/

The TL;DR is that somebody is abusing the BGP protocol to be in a position
where they can intercept the miner traffic. The concerning point is that
they seem to be having some degree of success in their endeavour and
earning profits from it.

I do not understand the impact of this (I don't know much about BGP, the
mining protocol nor anything else, really), but I thought it might be worth
putting it up here.

Ta,
Pedro

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             reply	other threads:[~2014-08-07 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-07 23:02 Pedro Worcel [this message]
2014-08-07 23:45 ` [Bitcoin-development] Miners MiTM Luke Dashjr
2014-08-08  0:29   ` slush
2014-08-08  0:37     ` Christopher Franko
2014-08-08  1:07       ` Pedro Worcel
2014-08-08  2:22         ` slush
2014-08-08  1:01     ` Luke Dashjr
2014-08-08  9:53       ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-08 18:21         ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08 18:27           ` Luke Dashjr
2014-08-08 18:34           ` Laszlo Hanyecz
2014-08-09 12:15             ` Sergio Lerner
2014-08-08  3:18     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08  9:42     ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-09 19:39       ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-08-09 19:31   ` Troy Benjegerdes

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