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Topic: [poll] - how confident are you? - page 2. (Read 1955 times)

legendary
Activity: 1904
Merit: 1037
Trusted Bitcoiner
December 21, 2012, 01:33:54 PM
#10
people voting 100%

you read all the source code and thought about it for months, or you blindly believe it 100%?
I suppose that depends on what you mean by "bitcoin itself".

"bitcoin" is just a protocol.  There are many implementations of that protocol. Any one of those implementations might become "hacked" (Bitcoin-Qt, Electrum, blockchain.info, etc), but I think I understand the protocol and the options available for updating that protocol as new technologies develop to believe that the protocol itself as defined (though not necessarily as implemented by any one or more clients) won't be hacked.

bitcoin could be hacked and we dont even know it, someone finds a way to create bitcoins without making the GPU do any work, and can create infinite bit coins

their must be a simple way to check if this is the case, add up all the wallets with coins on the block chain and you should get 10.576 million coin

Someone do this please!


No bitcoins can come out of nowhere. That's not how it works. No bitcoin client would accept "coins" that came from nowhere.

prove it.

I can't fool everyone and make them believe i did the work
or somehow side step the hole minning issue and just send made up coins.

I know what THEY say, but can you prove it, without asking me to "understand" the hole system. add up the all the coins and say see 10million so far.
full member
Activity: 238
Merit: 100
December 21, 2012, 01:32:52 PM
#9
people voting 100%

you read all the source code and thought about it for months, or you blindly believe it 100%?
I suppose that depends on what you mean by "bitcoin itself".

"bitcoin" is just a protocol.  There are many implementations of that protocol. Any one of those implementations might become "hacked" (Bitcoin-Qt, Electrum, blockchain.info, etc), but I think I understand the protocol and the options available for updating that protocol as new technologies develop to believe that the protocol itself as defined (though not necessarily as implemented by any one or more clients) won't be hacked.

bitcoin could be hacked and we dont even know it, someone finds a way to create bitcoins without making the GPU do any work, and can create infinite bit coins

their must be a simple way to check if this is the case, add up all the wallets with coins on the block chain and you should get 10.576 million coin

Someone do this please!


No bitcoins can come out of nowhere. That's not how it works. No bitcoin client would accept "coins" that came from nowhere.
legendary
Activity: 1904
Merit: 1037
Trusted Bitcoiner
December 21, 2012, 01:22:15 PM
#8
people voting 100%

you read all the source code and thought about it for months, or you blindly believe it 100%?
I suppose that depends on what you mean by "bitcoin itself".

"bitcoin" is just a protocol.  There are many implementations of that protocol. Any one of those implementations might become "hacked" (Bitcoin-Qt, Electrum, blockchain.info, etc), but I think I understand the protocol and the options available for updating that protocol as new technologies develop to believe that the protocol itself as defined (though not necessarily as implemented by any one or more clients) won't be hacked.

bitcoin could be hacked and we dont even know it, someone finds a way to create bitcoins without making the GPU do any work, and can create infinite bit coins

their must be a simple way to check if this is the case, add up all the wallets with coins on the block chain and you should get 10.576 million coin

Someone do this please!
legendary
Activity: 3472
Merit: 4801
December 21, 2012, 01:14:56 PM
#7
people voting 100%

you read all the source code and thought about it for months, or you blindly believe it 100%?
I suppose that depends on what you mean by "bitcoin itself".

"bitcoin" is just a protocol.  There are many implementations of that protocol. Any one of those implementations might become "hacked" (Bitcoin-Qt, Electrum, blockchain.info, etc).

Edit: I think my comments about "hacking a protocol" were not well thought out or well expressed.  To avoid confusion, I've removed them from this post.
legendary
Activity: 1904
Merit: 1037
Trusted Bitcoiner
December 21, 2012, 01:10:22 PM
#6
people voting 100%

you read all the source code and thought about it for months, or you blindly believe it 100%?
full member
Activity: 238
Merit: 100
December 21, 2012, 01:04:49 PM
#5
Define bitcoin? The bitcoin we know today will surely be "hacked" 1,000+ years into the future as computers get more powerful.
hero member
Activity: 490
Merit: 500
December 21, 2012, 12:56:11 PM
#4
Never say never.
legendary
Activity: 1764
Merit: 1002
December 21, 2012, 12:12:14 PM
#3
this is actually one of the very few good polls.
legendary
Activity: 1022
Merit: 1000
December 21, 2012, 12:09:01 PM
#2
From <50% to down... what are you doing here???  Cheesy
legendary
Activity: 1904
Merit: 1037
Trusted Bitcoiner
December 21, 2012, 12:05:51 PM
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