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You're begging the question pretty hard here. Why are they looking in the wrong place?
by apawloski 13y ago
You're begging the question pretty hard here. Why are they looking in the wrong place?
- betterunix 13y agoI already gave the answer: Bitcoin has all the hallmarks of amateur cryptography, not the work of an expert, researcher, or professional.
- mhartl 13y agoWhat are some of the hallmarks you see?
- betterunix 13y agoNo security definition, no threat model, a security analysis that only covers one specific attack strategy the author himself came up with, the "51% attack" being considered acceptable (despite being a polynomial time attack), no reference to the decades of related work in secure multiparty computation or digital cash, the blurred boundary between the protocol design and its implementation, etc. I discussed this in great detail a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5735993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5735993
- mhartl 13y agoGreat, thanks for the reply. I'll take a look at your other comment as well.