Re:Becoming a blockchain developer
by lawn on Monday February 10, 2020 @08:59AM
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It's not foolproof of course, and it might be overkill for many, but consider this example:
You've found one of the most catastrophic bugs in Bitcoin ever, and you know that the developers are extremely skeptical of anything. The community is also divided and full of toxic people who will try to discredit anything you do.
Now, will you be satisfied with just posting a hash on IRC or on the mailing list? Are you sure people won't distrust you from posting on "the wrong IRC channel"?
I would assume you'll want as solid a proof as you can construct. Therefore you'll timestamp your message on the blockchain in addition to posting on social media somewhere.
And exactly this is what awemany did when he discovered CVE-2018–17144, one of the most catastrophic bugs in Bitcoin ever:
You've found one of the most catastrophic bugs in Bitcoin ever, and you know that the developers are extremely skeptical of anything. The community is also divided and full of toxic people who will try to discredit anything you do.
Now, will you be satisfied with just posting a hash on IRC or on the mailing list? Are you sure people won't distrust you from posting on "the wrong IRC channel"?
I would assume you'll want as solid a proof as you can construct. Therefore you'll timestamp your message on the blockchain in addition to posting on social media somewhere.
And exactly this is what awemany did when he discovered CVE-2018–17144, one of the most catastrophic bugs in Bitcoin ever:
https://medium.com/@awemany/600-microseconds-b70f87b0b2a6