Re: [Bitcoin-development] Alert System

2011-09-09 Thread Christian Decker
Resending to mailing list as I replied directly... On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Christian Decker decker.christ...@gmail.com wrote: Will w...@phase.net wrote: In fact, I think the alert system should relay (note, NOT display) messages *regardless of the key used*, so it isn't yet

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Alert System

2011-09-08 Thread David Perry
@Steve re Who knows, it might be the only way we'll ever hear from Satoshi again. That brings up a good point... Does anyone aside from Satoshi actually have the ability to send such an alert? Should we at the very least change the alert system to give such privileges to current devs and ensure

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Alert System

2011-09-08 Thread Luke-Jr
On Thursday, September 08, 2011 1:33:15 PM John Smith wrote: Be careful though, if you relay everything, it suddenly *does* have DDoS potential... Maybe require a proof-of-work then? -- Doing More with Less: The Next

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Alert System

2011-09-08 Thread theymos
On Thursday, September 08, 2011 3:45 PM, Luke-Jr l...@dashjr.org wrote: I don't seem to recall this ever happening, despite Deepbit having over 50% multiple times now. An alert would have been issued if they had abused that position.