Marty's Ƀent
Issue #1353: Beware of fake apps trying to take your bitcoin
Securing bitcoin is a very serious matter that should not be taken lightly. Take your time. Do your research.
Securing bitcoin is a very serious matter that should not be taken lightly. Take your time. Do your research.
It is still early days and this is nothing more than an idea at the moment. But your Uncle Marty thinks it is a very good idea that should gain traction.
This is the nature of open source distributed systems.
This may not make you feel great, but it is the reality we find ourselves in today.
The stakes have never been higher. The state is losing its grasp of control over the people and it is doubling, tripling and quadrupling down on utter incompetence and nefariousness.
In a world filled with weak men driven by profits, it isn't hard to imagine that many corporate miners in the West would bend the knee to try to accommodate this so they can stay in business.
In light of these events, I'm very interested to learn how systemic of a problem this could potentially be for mining pools moving forward.
To date, this attack vector hasn't been exploited to the best of my knowledge.
