{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgyd","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgyd","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-06-16\n📝 Original message:\u003e\n\u003e \"How do you plan to deal with security \u0026 incident response for the\n\u003e duration you describe where you will have control while you are deploying\n\u003e the unilateral hard-fork and being in sole maintainership control?\"\n\u003e\n\nHow do we plan to deal with security \u0026 incident response - exactly the same\nway as before. Remember that XT is basically Core plus a few patches.\n\nGavin and myself are both on the bitcoin-security mailing list and have\nbeen for years. Both of us have experience of responding to very serious\nand tight-deadline security incidents, for example, the accidental bdb hard\nfork and (in my case) when we discovered that Android phones had so little\nentropy in them that different devices were actually generating the same\nkeys!\n\nThat one required co-ordinated crash rollouts of multiple wallets across\nthe Bitcoin ecosystem because there was a parallel investigation into key\ncollisions taking place in an open forum and they were not far from\ndiscovering the truth about how badly the Android RNG was broken   (I knew\nbecause at the time I had access to the Google internal Android bug\ntracker). I organised the whole thing.\n\nSo I think we'll manage. But I don't expect things to exist in a state of\ndisjointness for very long. XT will rebase on top of Core and follow it's\nreleases for as long as there seems to be interest in bigger blocks and as\nlong as I have the time/energy/interest. If the \u003e1mb chain wins then Core\nwill have to adopt the new ruleset or simply stop being relevant, as it\nwill have no users. That wouldn't make much sense.\n\nNow, there have been concerns raised that a hard fork is unbelievably\nrisky, the sky will fall, the value of Bitcoin will drop to zero, etc. I\ndon't believe it's anywhere near that risky. The patch Gavin is working on\nrequires both a miner majority *and* also has a date trigger in it. Much\nlike previous forks, in fact. So nobody should be taken by surprise if/when\nbigger blocks appear, because it will have been known for a long time\nbeforehand that there was sufficiently strong consensus, there will have\nbeen messages printed to the node logs, announcements in various places and\nso on.\n\nDoes that help clear things up?\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150616/abf446cc/attachment.html\u003e"}