Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP proposal - patch to raise selfish mining threshold.

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 13:58:18 -0500

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Alessandro Parisi <[email-masked]> wrote:
> this means that anytime a bug is found in Bitcoin protocol, chances are that
> it would take a lot more time to get fixed

Correct.  There is significant potential that a fix can create other
problems...   and any major mistake could instantly destroy > $2
billion worth of value.

-- 
Jeff Garzik
Senior Software Engineer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/