Quote from: muyuu on April 15, 2013, 10:20:39 PM

Quote from: Nicolai on April 15, 2013, 08:55:44 PM

Quote from: muyuu on April 15, 2013, 07:56:46 PM

06:07 < ryannn> They say there's no 'central weak point'
06:07 < ryannn> Yeah there is, there's the developers
06:08 < ryannn> There's been bugs in the client that have allowed the blockchain to split previously
06:08 < ryannn> One could just backdoor the bitcoin client binaries, not the source.
06:08 < ryannn> Nobody would figure it out until it's too late

... and this is not true, as the official binary is signed, and many people run cronjobs to download and verify that the official binary hasn't been modified.

Still amusing that he bothered commenting on it.

Linode don't take BTC do they?

Linode being hacked was responsible for one of the first big hacking loses by a bitcoin service.