Quote from: Gumballinabattleaxeninja on August 23, 2016, 07:50:02 PM

Quote from: luv2drnkbr on August 19, 2016, 08:48:54 AM

Quote from: Gumballinabattleaxeninja on August 18, 2016, 03:26:34 AM

What I want to know is, what "State" is sponsoring this malicious attack? Is it China? The USA? I would imagine a collective of countries conversing on this and funding the attackers with Bitcoin, since fiat is so traceable nowadays.

I think he found direct evidence of GFW doing a DNS MITM for bitcoin.org. That to me is the most reasonable and most likely explanation. Sure it could be another state sponsored attack, but all the other major state players just ban it and make it unpopular and whatnot. China's the only one to just implement technical measures first and do other stuff later. I think the GFW got updated to redirect bitcoin.org traffic.

This is of course entirely speculation without any shred of merit.

Can you tell me what GFW is? I may know what it is, but I do not know that acronym. Apologies for my ignorance and thank you for the information.

The Great Firewall of China