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> There's no crypto code in Bitcoin that was invited by Satoshi and could have been badly broken in a subtle manner. Read up on the history of the client. Sato
by nwh 13y ago
> There's no crypto code in Bitcoin that was invited by Satoshi and could have been badly broken in a subtle manner.
Read up on the history of the client. Satoshi was innovative but could certainly not code securely to save themselves. Most of the script OP codes are still disabled because they introduced huge vulnerabilities. You could spend anybodies coins in Satoshi's client, or create integer overflows that created billions of coins in a transaction.
The client is a lot better now, but to say it's perfect because it was there from inception is a huge mistake.
- oleganza 13y agoWhich only proves my point. It's really hard to make it right in v0.1 and you have to make it right, otherwise the whole thing is forever broken. Even then, there were two huge bugs: one with integer overflow that created billions of bitcoins in one transaction. Another was with OP_RETURN that allowed to spend bitcoins from any transactions without any effort. Bitcoin wins over more complex schemes because it has less moving parts. Fortunately, the parts that were enabled work fine and give us awesome possibilities. Otherwise, they'd be disabled too.