Re: [Bitcoin-development] limits of network hacking/netsplits (was: Discovery/addr packets)

2013-05-07 Thread Matt Corallo
I really beg to differ on this one. If you're an Ubuntu user who is behind only one distro (quantal) you're stuck on version 0.6.2 with no updates since 2012 (yes, that means on May 15th you'll be lost). For those still on Debian Squeeze (ie barely out of date), you get 0.3.24! Yes, 0.3.24

[Bitcoin-development] limits of network hacking/netsplits (was: Discovery/addr packets)

2013-05-06 Thread Adam Back
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 11:25:50AM -0700, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Adam Back a...@cypherspace.org wrote: bitcoins primaryvulnerability IMO (so far) is network attacks to induce network splits, local lower difficulty to a point that a local and artificially

Re: [Bitcoin-development] limits of network hacking/netsplits (was: Discovery/addr packets)

2013-05-06 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Adam Back a...@cypherspace.org wrote: Maybe I could hack a pool to co-opt it into my netsplit and do the work for me, or segment enough of the network to have some miners in it, and they do the work. Or you can just let it mine honestly and take the Bitcoins.