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Topic: Man Behind Week-Long Bitcoin Attacks Reveals Himself - page 3. (Read 4077 times)

sr. member
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wever, I remain to be convinced that people are that naïve, and in sufficient numbers, to warrant the excuse amaclin has offered.

actually we need people attacking bitcoin. and as amaclin has shown that some services are still vulnerable to this he made bitcoin a favor.

i just cant follow his reasoning
legendary
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Merit: 1019
Good to understand your reason but now that you know about its
weakness how do we make it strong because there is possibility
that a lot of people might die of one ailment or the other if they
loss their bitcoins especially those that have put their life investment in it.

Let me give you an example.
Assume you have two semi identical electric instruments. For example two drills.
The only difference between them that the first one consumes 1kWH and the second 2kWH
You are reasonable.
What will you do? There are several possibilities:
1) Use both instruments time-to-time
2) Use first one
3) Use second one
4) Modify first one to improve it
5) Modify second one to improve it
6) Research the difference and improve both instruments...
7) ... etc

hero member
Activity: 644
Merit: 503
More than anything i like people that says the truth even in the faces of strong oppositions.
If i may ask, why did you do it? and what do you intend to achieve?
I want to tell you that bitcoin is too weak for you lifetime savings
Good to understand your reason but now that you know about its weakness how do we make it strong because there is possibility that a lot of people might die of one ailment or the other if they loss their bitcoins especially those that have put their life investment in it.

What drew me to Bitcoin initially is that it gives me control over my finances. With that control comes responsibility. If anyone has put all their life savings in Bitcoin, they need to take responsibility for that.

However, I remain to be convinced that people are that naïve, and in sufficient numbers, to warrant the excuse amaclin has offered.
sr. member
Activity: 434
Merit: 250
More than anything i like people that says the truth even in the faces of strong oppositions.
If i may ask, why did you do it? and what do you intend to achieve?
I want to tell you that bitcoin is too weak for you lifetime savings
Good to understand your reason but now that you know about its weakness how do we make it strong because there is possibility that a lot of people might die of one ailment or the other if they loss their bitcoins especially those that have put their life investment in it.
legendary
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but you havent shown that?

No, but at least he had his 5 minutes of fame.  Wink
legendary
Activity: 1260
Merit: 1019
but you havent shown that?
Should I talk about atheism in a church?
hero member
Activity: 644
Merit: 503
More than anything i like people that says the truth even in the faces of strong oppositions.
If i may ask, why did you do it? and what do you intend to achieve?
I want to tell you that bitcoin is too weak for you lifetime savings

Uh, OK. Are many Bitcoin users keeping their lifetime savings in BTC? What proportion of users are we talking about? And how did you find this out?

How has this proportion changed as your efforts to educate users progress?
sr. member
Activity: 252
Merit: 251
More than anything i like people that says the truth even in the faces of strong oppositions.
If i may ask, why did you do it? and what do you intend to achieve?
I want to tell you that bitcoin is too weak for you lifetime savings

but you havent shown that?

only thing you showed is that many services are unable to learn from past accidents...but nothing bad happened because of your mallability "attack": even the price did not react.
legendary
Activity: 1260
Merit: 1019
More than anything i like people that says the truth even in the faces of strong oppositions.
If i may ask, why did you do it? and what do you intend to achieve?
I want to tell you that bitcoin is too weak for you lifetime savings
sr. member
Activity: 434
Merit: 250
There seems to be similarity between these names Alister Maclin and Amaclin or it was just a coincidence?
yes it's me
More than anything i like people that says the truth even in the faces of strong oppositions.
If i may ask, why did you do it? and what do you intend to achieve?
legendary
Activity: 1260
Merit: 1019
If you are even slightly talented, use your talent to improve the protocol
It is not possible [to improve protocol].

any kind of system will improve every time it faced and survived an attack.
Wrong assumption.
legendary
Activity: 1260
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There seems to be similarity between these names Alister Maclin and Amaclin or it was just a coincidence?
yes it's me
copper member
Activity: 924
Merit: 1007
hee-ho.
Why the member who love bitcoin is trying to break its network or working system? Is it only for security test or just to get bitcoin down? Everybody here i think loves the way bitcoin work but why all of these test or attacks going on by the people who love bitcoin.  Huh Huh

it will only make it stronger, if anything. any kind of system will improve every time it faced and survived an attack.
nothing is broken. and these attacks will not break bitcoins.

if bitcoin can be taken down by just one man then it should be considered a failed system.
legendary
Activity: 1061
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Why the member who love bitcoin is trying to break its network or working system? Is it only for security test or just to get bitcoin down? Everybody here i think loves the way bitcoin work but why all of these test or attacks going on by the people who love bitcoin.  Huh Huh

try reading the article by visiting link
he doesn't love bitcoin
legendary
Activity: 994
Merit: 1000
Why the member who love bitcoin is trying to break its network or working system? Is it only for security test or just to get bitcoin down? Everybody here i think loves the way bitcoin work but why all of these test or attacks going on by the people who love bitcoin.  Huh Huh
hero member
Activity: 874
Merit: 1002
Why should somebody fix vunerability if you do not want to pay for fixing?
I am going to kill your dog.  Your dog is vulnerable.  I could fix this vulnerability - but you are going to have to pay me for that.

Fuck you Maclin.  It is very hard to build a tall building.  It is very easy to blow one up.  You think you are some kind of genius?  Typical Russian prick.  

If you are even slightly talented, use your talent to improve the protocol rather than finding a weakness to exploit and get off trying to claim you dominate bitcoin.  The core devs will remove this minor tick in due course and you will again be the same miserable piece of shit you were yesterday.
sr. member
Activity: 434
Merit: 250
There seems to be similarity between these names Alister Maclin and Amaclin or it was just a coincidence?
hero member
Activity: 518
Merit: 500
what if he makes his 100 line code opensource
Do now worry about it.
One has some knowledge in bitcoin protocol and programming skills would be able to write it himself.


Basically it is already open-source, at least as of recently. Anyone who wants to be doing this is already doing it because they can easily find the resources readily available to do so.
I'm sure anybody with advanced knowledge has moved on to the next thing and this is old-news, and not worth anymore time.
legendary
Activity: 1260
Merit: 1019
what if he makes his 100 line code opensource
Do not worry about it.
One has some knowledge in bitcoin protocol and programming skills would be able to write it himself.

upd: typo fixed
Q7
sr. member
Activity: 448
Merit: 250
I think he has done the community a great deal of favor by pointing out weaknesses in the system. At least once we know where the loophole is we can have a patch to cover up during the next update. At least on the bitcoin price this has not been affected as it is still on yhe uptrend.
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