Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Completing the retirement of the alert system

From: Gregory Maxwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 15:36:38 +0000

On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Andrew C via bitcoin-dev
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> On 9/10/2016 5:41 AM, Johnson Lau via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> 3. After a few months or so, publish the private key.
> Why wait a few months? Why not just publish the key a few days after the
> final alert?

Because if you were offline at the time of the final alert, the alert
you may see instead is "Urgent security problem! Upgrade to
UltraBitcoin NOW! http://scamsite.info/", among other similar reasons.