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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 19:55:45 +0100
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From: Alessandro Parisi <startithub@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP proposal - patch to raise selfish
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Thank you very much for your fair response, Sir;
this means that anytime a bug is found in Bitcoin protocol, chances are
that it would take a lot more time to get fixed


2013/11/5 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>

> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Alessandro Parisi <startithub@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I agree with Ittay: when bugs are found, they must be fixed ASAP,
> expecially
> > when they affect a sensitive sw such as Bitcon; in IT security, every
> flaw
> > that is exploitable in abstract, is going to be exploited in real,
> sooner or
> > later, also taking into account the increasing parallel computing power;
> > beware of false sense of security
>
> That is quite ignorant.  Bitcoin is far more complex than standard IT
> security "fix ASAP" mantra.  Distributed consensus is a new field of
> computer science, and blindly applying standard logic to bitcoin will
> quickly result in large problems.
>
> Every fix has the chance of changing the game theory or economics of
> bitcoin.  A change to the core consensus protocol within bitcoin --
> mining -- is even more game-theory- and economically-critical to the
> core system.  Changes thus have more impact, where any change
> potentially reduces bitcoin's value to zero in the worst case.
>
> Bitcoin is akin to medical device or avionics software.  We cannot
> just change at will, without significant research, analysis and
> testing.   "It is a bug, it must be fixed ASAP" is ignorant and
> dangerous.
>
> Further, this is at present a THEORETICAL problem, and the solution
> presented has some obvious flaws, that would make our current, WORKING
> SYSTEM more fragile, and less secure.
>
> --
> Jeff Garzik
> Senior Software Engineer and open source evangelist
> BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Thank you very much for your fair response, Sir;<div style=
>this means that anytime a bug is found in Bitcoin protocol, chances are th=
at it would take a lot more time to get fixed</div><div class=3D"gmail_extr=
a">

<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">2013/11/5 Jeff Garzik <span dir=3D"ltr">=
&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:jgarzik@bitpay.com" target=3D"_blank">jgarzik@bitpay.=
com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0=
 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class=3D"im">On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Alessandro Parisi &lt;<a =
href=3D"mailto:startithub@gmail.com">startithub@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br=
>
&gt; I agree with Ittay: when bugs are found, they must be fixed ASAP, expe=
cially<br>
&gt; when they affect a sensitive sw such as Bitcon; in IT security, every =
flaw<br>
&gt; that is exploitable in abstract, is going to be exploited in real, soo=
ner or<br>
&gt; later, also taking into account the increasing parallel computing powe=
r;<br>
&gt; beware of false sense of security<br>
<br>
</div>That is quite ignorant. =A0Bitcoin is far more complex than standard =
IT<br>
security &quot;fix ASAP&quot; mantra. =A0Distributed consensus is a new fie=
ld of<br>
computer science, and blindly applying standard logic to bitcoin will<br>
quickly result in large problems.<br>
<br>
Every fix has the chance of changing the game theory or economics of<br>
bitcoin. =A0A change to the core consensus protocol within bitcoin --<br>
mining -- is even more game-theory- and economically-critical to the<br>
core system. =A0Changes thus have more impact, where any change<br>
potentially reduces bitcoin&#39;s value to zero in the worst case.<br>
<br>
Bitcoin is akin to medical device or avionics software. =A0We cannot<br>
just change at will, without significant research, analysis and<br>
testing. =A0 &quot;It is a bug, it must be fixed ASAP&quot; is ignorant and=
<br>
dangerous.<br>
<br>
Further, this is at present a THEORETICAL problem, and the solution<br>
presented has some obvious flaws, that would make our current, WORKING<br>
SYSTEM more fragile, and less secure.<br>
<span class=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=3D"#888888"><br>
--<br>
Jeff Garzik<br>
Senior Software Engineer and open source evangelist<br>
BitPay, Inc. =A0 =A0 =A0<a href=3D"https://bitpay.com/" target=3D"_blank">h=
ttps://bitpay.com/</a><br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div>

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