You don't have to, the download will start automatically after a while.
Thanks; that didn't seem to be the case before, but it does now.
The article says
The truth is that most people don't spend the bitcoins they buy; they hoard them, hoping that they will appreciate.
What's the evidence for this? Is it somehow verfiable in the block chain?
He quickly identified nine ways to compromise the system and scoured Nakamoto's for an insertion point for his first attack. But when he found the right spot there was a message waiting for him. "Attack removed," it said. The same thing happened over and over again, infuriating Kaminsky.
This does not seem to be literally true. Am I searching incorrectly, or are there actually explicit (but different) comments in the repository somewhere?
met% git log | grep '^commit' 2> /dev/null | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | xargs -n 1 -i git diff -r {} | grep -C 3 -i remove | grep -i attack | sort -u
- - added blinding for RSA and Rabin to defend against timing attacks
+ - added blinding for RSA and Rabin to defend against timing attacks
