Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 16:24:19 -0500
From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>,
	Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
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On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 04:11:58PM -0500, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 12:45:14PM -0500, Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev =
wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org> wrote:
> >=20
> > >
> > > It would probably be a good idea to have a security considerations
> > > section
> >=20
> >=20
> > Containing what?  I'm not aware of any security considerations that are=
 any
> > different from any other consensus rules change.
>=20
> I covered the security considerations unique to hard-forks on my blog:
>=20
> https://petertodd.org/2016/soft-forks-are-safer-than-hard-forks

Oh, and to be 100% clear, I should say those are only *some of* the
unique security considerations - for starters the article is mainly
talking about uncontroversial hard-forks, and doesn't even delve into
economic attacks among other omissions. It's just an introductory
article.

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