The fact that this is possible should be enough for us to implement meassures against it. On Fri, 7 Apr 2017, Daniele Pinna via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > Can you please not forget to supply us more details on the claims made regarding the reverse engineering of the Asic chip? > > It is absolutely crucial that we get these independently verified ASAP. > > Daniele > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 21:38:31 +0000 > From: Gregory Maxwell > To: Bitcoin Dev > Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal: Inhibiting a covert attack on >         the     Bitcoin POW function > Message-ID: >         > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > each block MUST either contain a BIP-141 segwit commitment or a > > correct WTXID commitment with ID 0xaa21a9ef. > It was just pointed out to me that the proposed ID (which I just > selected to be above the segwit one) collides with one chosen in > another non-BIP proposal.  This wasn't intentional, and I'll happily > change the value when I update the document. > >   > >