On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Mark Friedenbach <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/16/2014 02:29 PM, Kevin wrote: >> Okay, so how about an autoupdate function which pulls a work around off >> the server? Sooner or later, the vulnerabilities must be faced. > > NO. Bitcoin Core will never have an auto-update functionality. That > would be a single point of failure whose compromise could result in the > theft of every last bitcoin held in a Bitcoin Core wallet.
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