Re: [bitcoin-dev] Selfish Mining Prevention

2018-09-19 Thread Andrew via bitcoin-dev
@ Eric: Yes I forgot to mention that cost (in addition to price) also determines the profitability of mining and thus the total hashpower. I disagree with your assessment of merge mining as really what matters is opportunity cost of honestly mining vs attacking, and one reason we are currently

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core update notice

2018-09-19 Thread Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello all, Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 was just released with a fix for CVE-2018-17144: https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/18/release-0.16.3/ We urge all network participants to upgrade to 0.16.3[*] as soon as possible. [*] For those who build from

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 released

2018-09-19 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bitcoin Core version 0.16.3 is now available from: or through bittorrent