Saturday, 22 September 2018

Anyone else notice the subtext of patching the HUGE vulnerability - only mining nodes matter to consensus!

I haven't had time to research this fully, but it appears that Core disclosed the inflation bug after the majority of mining nodes were patched. At the time of writing this, https://coin.dance/nodes (screenshotted) reports that 75% of nodes are NOT patched. Think of all of those non-mining full nodes out there with a massive show-stopper bug, and they don't worry about this?

It's a tacit admission that non-mining nodes don't determine block validity or consensus. They just follow along with the miners' decisions.

<donning flamesuit>

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