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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Alert System
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On Thursday, September 08, 2011 3:43:12 PM theymos wrote:
> The alert system will be very important if there are ever any critical
> problems in the network. For example, it is currently Bitcoin's only
> defense against an attacker with >50% of the computational power, where
> alerts would be used to tell people to stop accepting transactions.

I don't seem to recall this ever happening, despite Deepbit having over 50% 
multiple times now.