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Securing Bitcoin Core with Blockstack

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• muneeb 10y ago
  There is an on-going discussion on r/bitcoin re this post where some Bitcoin Core developers are commenting on the post. Worth checking out: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4yhhe1/securing_bitcoin_core_releases_with_blockstack_a https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4yhhe1/securing_bi...
• jlrubin 10y ago
  This seems to not solve the problem for a variety of reasons, probably most trivially if Bitcoin is compromised you can't use Bitcoin to check if Bitcoin is compromised, so you need other software to validate the chain.
  • shea256 10y ago
    The assumption is there are nodes already running from previous releases.
• ISL 10y ago
  Regarding this particular attack, isn't it addressed by reproducible builds? If the bitcoin software binaries are being replaced by nefarious actors, the hashes would conflict by those generated by source compilation. Is there a reason this doesn't work?
  • TD-Linux 10y ago
    No, that works fine, and Bitcoin Core uses reproducible builds signed by many different people. The post seems to be attempting to address the chain of trust of the PGP keys instead, but whether it succeeds at doing so is questionable. Certainly if a "blockstack id" can only be owned by one person, it's worse.