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Worth noting: libbitcoin is an obscure project with an impressive name. In that it's not used by bitcoind or any wallets I know of: it's mainly of interest her
by RustyRussell 3y ago
Worth noting: libbitcoin is an obscure project with an impressive name.
In that it's not used by bitcoind or any wallets I know of: it's mainly of interest here because the book Mastering Bitcoin used it for examples.
- lrvick 3y agoIt is also of interest because at least ~$1m of funds were stolen from thousands of wallets made by people that wanted a simple and seemingly reputable CLI tool to generate a mnemonic and derive addresses for various coins.
- RustyRussell 3y agoSigh. I did not know that, thanks :(
- Zenul_Abidin 3y agoNow I'm busy making my own CLI for that, after this mess.
- nullc 3y agoIt's far from the first time that people have sought to make themselves extra secure and as a result found themselves using obscure software which was inadequately reviewed and flawed or even outright backdoored and as a result received almost no security at all.
- yieldcrv 3y agothere are a couple crypto programming youtube videos like that, remix IDE put up a warning at one point its an interesting attack vector provide educational resources with compromised examples wait for dev or their users to deposit funds in the copy and pasted contract or dependency long game, been wondering how well that worked