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A comment on Hal Finney’s proposal for optimizing Bitcoin to be enabled in Bitcoin Core. Parent comment

Re:Hal Finney’s proposal for optimizing Bitcoin to be enable... by hudon on Sunday September 27, 2020 @10:56AM (#24607084)
The fact that changes to Bitcoin Core get some amount of reviews is not enough for all vulnerabilities to get caught, as seen here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposu...

And some of those vulnerabilities may have been planted intentionally, we’d never know.

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Re:Hal Finney’s proposal for optimizing Bitcoin to be enable... by Taek on Sunday September 27, 2020 @11:07AM (#24607171)
A lot of the CVE's there are pretty minor. There hasn't been a serious but in Bitcoin core that I know of since 2018, and the one before that was in 2016.

Not perfect, but overall I think that's a pretty decent track record.

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