On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:42:30AM +0000, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev wrote: > The alert system was a centralized facility to allow trusted parties > to send messages to be displayed in wallet software (and, very early > on, actually remotely trigger the software to stop transacting). > > It has been removed completely in Bitcoin Core after being disabled for a > while.
As it has been disabled in relevant software I think it's mostly symbolic at this point, but yes, it makes sense to 'officially' retire the key. Let's pin the date and make it widely known. Doing this in organized fashion is much better than the whodunit that would undoubtly follow when the key would simply leak, which could happen at any time, as no one can know who it has spread to over all those years. Re: timing, I'd say leave three months grace time after this announcement for altcoins and such that may have accidentally have copied it to remove it, then at the beginning of 2017 broadcast the final alert. After that it's neutered, it's up to each of us that has the key to reveal it or not or when. It's a historical curiosity then. Wladimir _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
