Topic: Jacob Appelbaum: "Bitcoin Prediction: Major bugs in the near future ..." (Read 14860 times)
December 20, 2013, 04:31:24 PM
Thread necro much?
December 20, 2013, 04:25:10 PM
March 2013, fork in the blockchain. His prediction was right.
I'm curious what his position would be now.
What bugs could occur in the bitcoin protocol?
Could there be a major flaw?
I'm curious what his position would be now.
What bugs could occur in the bitcoin protocol?
Could there be a major flaw?
The March fork was an issue for around 5 hours... pretty much a non-event, and was handled beautifully by the main devs.
Prior to that, the only other significant bug was back in 2010.
Appelbaum has zero cred when it comes to Bitcoin.
December 20, 2013, 03:44:16 PM
March 2013, fork in the blockchain. His prediction was right.
I'm curious what his position would be now.
What bugs could occur in the bitcoin protocol?
Could there be a major flaw?
I'm curious what his position would be now.
What bugs could occur in the bitcoin protocol?
Could there be a major flaw?
July 11, 2012, 05:42:44 AM
I guess the price wouldn't be $16 right now if a major bug had been found. Trouble is, if he ever does find a major bug in the future, no one will believe him.
sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but did anything ever come of this?
I didn't want to say anything because it conflicts with what i'm about to say...
quit bumping an old thread
i didn't realize this was a year old till i saw the $10 - $15 price comment
quit bumping an old thread
i didn't realize this was a year old till i saw the $10 - $15 price comment
So much this!
Ente
July 10, 2012, 04:19:04 PM
i didn't read this thread a year ago.
yes i could have read the date, but i usually scan the headline, and body before looking for little deatails like the year.
I starty my day off here...
yes i could have read the date, but i usually scan the headline, and body before looking for little deatails like the year.
I starty my day off here...
July 10, 2012, 03:12:44 PM
I hate reading some god damn thread and then have nothing of substance come out of it. 
i didn't realize this was a year old till i saw the $10 - $15 price comment
All you guys need to learn how to use this button, it's there for a reason:
It keeps you from having to re-read entire threads that you may have already read.
July 10, 2012, 03:07:53 PM
I didn't want to say anything because it conflicts with what i'm about to say...
quit bumping an old thread
i didn't realize this was a year old till i saw the $10 - $15 price comment
quit bumping an old thread
i didn't realize this was a year old till i saw the $10 - $15 price comment
July 10, 2012, 03:05:26 PM
How many times have i read threads like this? 
A newb shows up, reads for 15min. and decides "bitcoin can't work! I should tell everybody!"
A newb shows up, reads for 15min. and decides "bitcoin can't work! I should tell everybody!"
July 10, 2012, 03:02:43 PM
I hate reading some god damn thread and then have nothing of substance come out of it.
Lots of substance comes out of it: bullshitters are discredited. For one reason or another, there are still occasional waves of people or sock-puppets showing up out of nowhere and spreading fact-free, panicky bullshit. July 10, 2012, 02:55:53 PM
I hate reading some god damn thread and then have nothing of substance come out of it.
Really? But, you know, you are on the Bitcoin forums...
July 10, 2012, 02:51:44 PM
I hate reading some god damn thread and then have nothing of substance come out of it.
July 10, 2012, 02:50:23 PM
i guess not, but jacob seems to be no fool so i assumed it would at least have been revealed (what he was talking about)
July 10, 2012, 02:48:42 PM
sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but did anything ever come of this?
well what do you think?
July 10, 2012, 02:47:29 PM
sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but did anything ever come of this?
July 01, 2011, 07:19:52 AM
I agree. For one thing it relies on encryption and a public log. Encryption can be broken and with bitcoins as is, you can't force new encryption standards on old bitcoins. As for the public log, if someone branches from it or introduces their own log then we loose credibility of the currency.
Bitcoins is a good proof of concept, but I think the concept will be taken over and improved upon by companies who don't respect the same level of anonymity that Bitcoins and Tor promote.
Good luck breaking SHA 256 Bitcoins is a good proof of concept, but I think the concept will be taken over and improved upon by companies who don't respect the same level of anonymity that Bitcoins and Tor promote.
SHA256 is irrelevant in that context. Good luck breaking ECDSA.
July 01, 2011, 03:43:16 AM
I agree. For one thing it relies on encryption and a public log. Encryption can be broken and with bitcoins as is, you can't force new encryption standards on old bitcoins. As for the public log, if someone branches from it or introduces their own log then we loose credibility of the currency.
Bitcoins is a good proof of concept, but I think the concept will be taken over and improved upon by companies who don't respect the same level of anonymity that Bitcoins and Tor promote.
Good luck breaking SHA 256 Bitcoins is a good proof of concept, but I think the concept will be taken over and improved upon by companies who don't respect the same level of anonymity that Bitcoins and Tor promote.
July 01, 2011, 03:15:20 AM
I guess the price wouldn't be $16 right now if a major bug had been found. Trouble is, if he ever does find a major bug in the future, no one will believe him.
July 01, 2011, 02:00:16 AM
so did anything ever come of this?
June 20, 2011, 03:00:46 PM
Hmmmmm...
June 14, 2011, 01:50:22 AM
Twitter user @smarimc claims to have found a protocol level bug that allows the Bitcoin network to be used for a DDoS attack.
Then he should contact the dev team: http://www.bitcoin.org/
It is known that there are certain ways to DoS a P2P node, but amplification attacks and DDoS are a different beast.
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