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Some context: This blog post is written by Sergio Demian Lerner who has found a number of minor security vulnerabilities in bitcoin's source code. His method
by ewillbefull 13y ago
Some context:
This blog post is written by Sergio Demian Lerner who has found a number of minor security vulnerabilities in bitcoin's source code.
His method of associating blocks to Satoshi's identity has been disputed by several developers of bitcoin.
- mrb 13y agoNo "developers of bitcoin" have disputed Sergio's findings. The 2 persons who are disputing Sergio's findings (gmaxwell and DeathAndTaxes) are the minority. I personally agree with Sergio, I understand his analysis technique, and I have read his previous supporting arguments. gmaxwell was for example making incorrect claims, saying you would need 50+ computers to mine at ~5 Mhash/s (average hashrate throughout 2009) because CPU and code at the time was not optimized. I proved gmaxwell wrong by benchmarking an early version of Bitcoin and showing a 5-year old $200 4-core Phenom was able to do 5 Mhash/s. This validates Sergio's theory that Satoshi could have very well represented the majority of the mining hashrate with a single computer throughout 2009.
- ewillbefull 13y agohttp://bitcoin.org/en/development http://bitcoin.org/en/development Gregory Maxwell is listed as a developer. He also has contributed a lot of code to the project.
- mrb 13y agoMy bad. I forgot his status. It does not change my opinion though (that his criticism is invalid).
- Devilboy 13y agoCan you detail some of the criticism please? I understand what he's doing and it makes sense to me - and I too believe those blocks identified probably belongs to Satoshi or someone very close to them.