Meh, Mike proposes terrible ideas all the time. Predictably it's getting shot down, and will probably sit there unmerged forever, just like his pull-req to turn the totally broken nSequence replacement back on. Heck, I'm only really replying because I'm quite fond of polishing my writing skills; it'd probably be more productive to get it merged and attack it later.
Speaking of, if you want to have some fun with dumb unauthenticated applications: https://github.com/petertodd/bitcoin/tree/bloom-data-hiding-attack
Topic: Worrying proposal to add unauthenticated api to p2p protocol (Read 618 times)
Is anyone else worried by this pull request from Mike Hearn?
It's worth to read the entire discussion if you have time
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4351
It's worth to read the entire discussion if you have time
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4351
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