If I understand correctly, this can only be exploited by a miner who would willingly create an invalid block (double input). And NOT getting the 12.5 BTC block reward.
Bitcoin core 0.14 - 0.16.2 clients would crash when they try to validate the block. and Core 0.16.3 clients would just simply reject the block.
It looks like a bad risk/reward ratio for miners and they're unwilling to exploit it. So I don't see the price dropping because of this...
Topic: I expected a price flop with the recent news. - page 2. (Read 357 times)
You don't have to worry too much. Although it has been missed by developers for a long time, it has not helped the hackers very well. No one has suffered huge losses, so its impact will not be great!
Due to this: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/dos-in-bitcoin-core-update-required-5032443 I was expecting a significant price drop. It doesn't matter that the vulnerability is a small one, it's the fact that it got missed by the core devs for so long and maybe smaller things could also get missed by them accidentally along the way that are more significant...
Anyone got any thoughs, was I being too pessamistic here? (by significant I mean 300-500$ the coin itself is quite stable)
Anyone got any thoughs, was I being too pessamistic here? (by significant I mean 300-500$ the coin itself is quite stable)
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