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    September 22, 2018

    BTC 600 Microseconds - How CVE-2018-17144 was discovered

    600 Microseconds - How CVE-2018-17144 was discovered

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 03:48 PM PDT

    Cobra: "Turns out a Bitcoin Cash developer saved Bitcoin from one of its worst and most dangerous bugs ever. Let this be the end of the arrogance and hubris of the Core development team and their cult followers. [...]"

    Posted: 22 Sep 2018 12:37 AM PDT

    I just want to say how happy it makes me that people on both sides are doing responsible disclosure of critical vulnerabilities. This works out better for EVERYONE.

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 05:55 PM PDT

    Both sides of the camp very vehemently disagree with each other and say incredibly unkind things to each other and treat each other very poorly, but I can't even express how happy it makes me that at the end of the day people realize that it is in everyone's best interest to look out for one another. Cory Fields pointed out in his write up that no matter what he thinks about bitcoin cash it is in his and the project he has an affinity for's best interest to responsibly disclose bugs to them because in the future it may turn out to be the case that someone on the other side will have information about a critical vulnerability that he would like to have responsibly disclosed as well. Fast forward to today and here we are. A critical vulnerability was found in bitcoin core and it was indeed responsibly disclosed to them and not kept hidden or sold or exploited.

    I don't think I can even express how important this is for both bitcoin cash and bitcoin core. I really hope this continues into the future or we are going to be headed in the direction of an inevitable disaster.

    Thank you so much to both cory fields and awemany for setting such a precident on both sides. I hope this continues to be the case into the future.

    submitted by /u/_risho_
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    "Thank you Bitcoin Core developer Cory Fields for responsibly reporting a Bitcoin ABC bug. [...]"

    Posted: 22 Sep 2018 12:32 AM PDT

    Just finished converting my 21 BTC to almost 300 BCH! Left the 1 in a million club for the 1 in 100-grand club!

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 05:40 PM PDT

    I'm no troll, just seriously, thank you Roger Ver! He alone is 100% has/is making be believe we can move this thing forward and leave the Core turds with their 7th grade science fair project behind.

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    BCH really is Bitcoin, I never thought I'd touch those 21 BTC but I don't see a bright future for that shit show of a blockchain.

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    submitted by /u/juicyeggroll
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    Anyone else notice the subtext of patching the HUGE vulnerability - only mining nodes matter to consensus!

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 01:16 PM PDT

    I haven't had time to research this fully, but it appears that Core disclosed the inflation bug after the majority of mining nodes were patched. At the time of writing this, https://coin.dance/nodes (screenshotted) reports that 75% of nodes are NOT patched. Think of all of those non-mining full nodes out there with a massive show-stopper bug, and they don't worry about this?

    It's a tacit admission that non-mining nodes don't determine block validity or consensus. They just follow along with the miners' decisions.

    <donning flamesuit>

    submitted by /u/horsebadlydrawn
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    The Best Devs

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 05:37 PM PDT

    The Bitcoin Social Contract, 21 Million Coins, and the Future of Peer to Peer Cash

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 08:19 PM PDT

    Bitcoin Core (BTC) right now...

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 05:11 PM PDT

    “Cobra was partially right though. Halongmining is just a brand name created to market Innosilicon miners. There was never a "real" company behind it.“

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 07:37 PM PDT

    Audio recording of Bangkok Summit

    Posted: 22 Sep 2018 12:30 AM PDT

    Nathaniel Popper:"PayPal has indeed told Infowars they will need to get a new payment processors -- the latest tech company to cut Infowars off. A PayPal spox says "we undertook an extensive review of the Infowars sites, and found instances that promoted hate or discriminatory intolerance."

    Posted: 22 Sep 2018 12:54 AM PDT

    PayPal ends business dealings with Alex Jones's Infowars

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 04:44 PM PDT

    BeijingBitcoins:"Cowardly Lyin' Samson Mow [Blockstream Twitter troll & chicken] has spent months lying to the public and to the media (@olgakharif) about Bitmain. Meanwhile @BITMAINtech is building a $500M facility in Texas, [...]"

    Posted: 22 Sep 2018 12:50 AM PDT

    BCore tell us all nodes matter, but they only care about mining nodes upgraded with their new zero-day hard fork. And hard forks are something they don't do cause they're dangerous & require lots of time to prepare, except for when they do them in hours to fix their fuckups!

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 02:46 PM PDT

    The Blue Matt (Matt Corallo), the coreon directly responsible for the shit-code that created the new BCore serious vulnerability bug... well his tweet aged like the baby teeth Luke JR once had did...

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 02:03 PM PDT

    Theymos on /r/bitcoin: If the bug was exploited they (Bitcoin Core devs) would rollback the transactions, similar to the DAO. I thought BTC was supposed to be immutable?

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 06:48 AM PDT

    Quote from theymos:

    Stored funds are not at risk, and never were at risk. Even if the bug had been exploited to its full extent, the theoretical damage to stored funds would have been rolled back, exactly as it was in the value overflow incident. However, there is currently a small risk of a chainsplit. In a chainsplit, transactions could be reversed long after they are fully confirmed. Therefore, for the next week or so you should consider there to be a small possibility of any transaction with less than 200 confirmations being reversed.

    https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/9hkoo6/new_info_escalates_importance_upgrading_to_0163/

    Edit:

    It seems by some of the comments in this thread that some misunderstood the point of this post. It wasn't to say whether BTC Core devs would be right or wrong in rolling back BTC if there were transactions that were exploited from the bug they introduced. The point of the post was to say, that BTC is not fully immutable, as is always suggested by Core devs. This post just helps to highlight that it is not and put their hypocrisy on display. Bitcoin is not fully run by artificial intelligence just yet, which means, that yes humans still pull the strings - and that Bitcoin is not 100% immutable.

    Bitcoin is new technology in the big scheme of things. I don't think that in 10 years Bitcoin will be anything like it is today. It is evolving every day, and in the future Bitcoin may be very different than it is now. Maybe BTC is not as immutable as people were made to believe. Maybe it's a sliding scale with different degrees of immutability. For example with ETH and the DAO, it's safe to say it's less-immutable than BTC or BCH. Whatever your thoughts, maybe it's time for people to actually think for themselves and not just believe what Core devs tell them all the time, because clearly, they aren't being fully honest with you or themselves.

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    Another reason why there should be no single man in command

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 10:05 PM PDT

    This Peter Todd quote did not age well: "Why multiple implementations doesn't help"

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 12:33 PM PDT

    Ryan: "Money Button is the biggest opportunity in the world. Almost no one yet appreciates the power of reducing the difficulty of payments down to the same as the Facebook Like Button. We'll show you. Demo apps coming AQAP :)"

    Posted: 22 Sep 2018 12:45 AM PDT

    Is Samson Mow Afraid Of Bitmain’s Success? | CoinSpice

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 10:09 PM PDT

    Ryan X. Charles: Bitcoin Core (BTC) is going to drop to #40 on CoinMarketCap

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 02:44 PM PDT

    Are there honest bitcoin cash holders that believe this shit?

    Ryan X. Charles: Bitcoin Core (BTC) is going to drop to #40 on CoinMarketCap. It has no utility and the entire thing is an Emperor Has No Clothes type of situation. High Fee Coin is a stupid idea and it's going to fail. Children understand this.

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    https://twitter.com/ryanxcharles/status/1043226621971517441

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    Awemany’s 0-Conf Solution

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 11:33 AM PDT

    Chris Pacia on Twitter: "The irony that at the same time all the Core fanboys we're proudly walking around wearing Assert(0) tshirts to mock a Bitcoin Unlimited crashing bug, their own production code had a bug in it that allowed for unbounded inflation."

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 07:20 AM PDT

    We just added tracking for which BTC nodes are impacted by the vulnerability identified on September 17th on the BTC chain

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 11:52 AM PDT

    Bitmain announces there 7nm asic chip, claims it can mine at 42J/TH.

    Posted: 21 Sep 2018 05:23 AM PDT
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