Vulnerability of all Crypto$$.Ghash.io cancontrol Bcoin now

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10 Jan 2014, 4:14 pm

Read this: http://qz.com/165273/the-existential-th ... w-at-hand/

Researcher's @ Cornell say " Bitcoin is broken. And not just superficially so, but fundamentally, at the core protocol level. We're not talking about a simple buffer overflow here, or even a badly designed API that can be easily patched; instead, the problem is intrinsic to the entire way Bitcoin works. All other cryptocurrencies and schemes based on the same Bitcoin idea, including Litecoin, Namecoin, and any of the other few dozen Bitcoin-inspired currencies, are broken as well."

Full article: http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/0 ... is-broken/

ArXiv pre-print scholarly version: http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0243

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10 Jan 2014, 5:55 pm

I figured that BC would go the way of the Reichsmark as soon as BC Mining became unprofitable. Now it has another nail in the coffin. --Oh well.


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