Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A5F3323 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:32:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail.help.org (mail.help.org [70.90.2.18]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B0F1110 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:32:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.1.10.25] (B [10.1.10.25]) by mail.help.org with ESMTPA ; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:32:55 -0400 To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org References: <55D1167B.1060107@gmail.com> <55D124D7.4050209@gmail.com> <61AD0CE6-014E-44E2-B9C7-00B35D2E09CC@petertodd.org> <55D4A3BD.2060706@sky-ip.org> <55D5AB11.3090307@sky-ip.org> From: Milly Bitcoin Message-ID: <55D5BAE1.4090101@bitcoins.info> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:32:49 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55D5AB11.3090307@sky-ip.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin XT 0.11A X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Development Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:32:58 -0000 > The same with -XT, nobody should be able to affect the entire bitcoin > ecosystem regardless how many miners or bitcoin companies you can lobby. > If this is possible, then Bitcoin is not as secure as we thought. Bitcoin is only as secure as the developers, users, and miners allow it to be. If you can get the majority of developers, users, and miners to do insecure things then Bitcoin will be insecure. Russ