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Re: Antbleed: A remote shutdown backdoor in antminers
by
leopard2
on 28/04/2017, 01:27:25 UTC
Only someone with a paid agenda or a recent brainosuction would ignore these simple facts:

1. BU miners have already threatened to attack and destroy the non-BU chain after a split, this is documented
2. BU miners under Bitmain lead, have ASICBOOST, so they can invoke a 30% gain at any given time, on their own miners
3. Now Antbleed has been revealed; a method that, until 48 hours ago, could have been used to destroy everyone elses Antminer on the planet at their discretion

There is no certainty, but there is certainly a possibility, to combine 2+3, to achieve 1, which would be the destruction of the alternative chain, at least a temporary disruption, that could be the edge required to turn their BU chain into the winner.

Am I paranoid again?  Huh