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Title: NEWS - Cornell Bitcoin Researchers: You Can Game the System Post by: smoothrunnings on November 05, 2013, 10:45:44 AM A friend of mine sent me this link, so don't shoot the messenger! LOL
Why am I not surprised to see this though? http://mashable.com/2013/11/04/bitcoin-cornell-researchers/ Title: Re: NEWS - Cornell Bitcoin Researchers: You Can Game the System Post by: Barek on November 05, 2013, 11:30:06 AM Earlier post with same/similar topic here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=325225.0 Old and overblown news. Here's the more detailed tech thread on it, which notes, among other things, that the basic idea of this attack has been discussed for 3 years now: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=324413.0 Something to be addressed long-term, but not a big deal. This thread's title is pretty misleading once you understand the issue. |