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From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr•org>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Alert System
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:45:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201109081545.41378.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1315510992.9621.140258138898885@webmail.messagingengine.com>

On Thursday, September 08, 2011 3:43:12 PM theymos wrote:
> The alert system will be very important if there are ever any critical
> problems in the network. For example, it is currently Bitcoin's only
> defense against an attacker with >50% of the computational power, where
> alerts would be used to tell people to stop accepting transactions.

I don't seem to recall this ever happening, despite Deepbit having over 50% 
multiple times now.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-08 19:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-08 14:42 David Perry
2011-09-08 15:04 ` Steve
2011-09-08 16:09   ` David Perry
2011-09-08 16:16     ` Matt Corallo
2011-09-08 16:20     ` Pieter Wuille
2011-09-08 16:37       ` John Smith
2011-09-08 16:51         ` Mike Hearn
2011-09-08 16:56           ` Alex Waters
2011-09-08 17:15           ` Luke-Jr
2011-09-08 17:33             ` John Smith
2011-09-08 17:59               ` Luke-Jr
2011-09-08 19:25             ` Will
     [not found]               ` <3658b238-b1bf-4fde-8880-d50c3eaa8ed9@email.android.com>
2011-09-09  9:15                 ` Christian Decker
2011-09-08 15:20 ` Matt Corallo
2011-09-08 15:25   ` Steve Coughlan
2011-09-08 19:43 ` theymos
2011-09-08 19:45   ` Luke-Jr [this message]
2011-09-08 20:17     ` theymos

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