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Title: 3rd Party Bitcoin Client Checks / Tests Post by: nyuka on March 05, 2014, 03:54:47 AM Should we have 3rd party people (vs only Bitcoin Foundation) check / test every new Bitcoin client release? With what happened at Mt.Gox, what would stop some greedy programmer from one click of a button taking all Bitcoins from everyone's wallet into his (biggest theft of all)?
Title: Re: 3rd Party Bitcoin Client Checks / Tests Post by: andytoshi on March 05, 2014, 04:31:29 AM There are many people unaffiliated with the core Bitcoin developers who watch the git repo carefully, so such a heist would be impossible to pull off undetectably. Not to mention that the developers themselves form a geographically and politically diverse group (to the best of my knowledge none of them identify as thieves though ;)). You are welcome and encouraged to read the pull requests and commits. Every bit of oversight helps, even if you are not religious about it.
But of course, a third-party test suite would be a great thing to have. If you want to spearhead such a project I think that'd be a welcome contribution. Now, having said that, what happened to Mt. Gox has nothing to do with anybody else's code, because Mt. Gox was running their own unpublished in-house code, and it was this code that had their fatal bugs. |