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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: - This system USED to be controlled by the public network. -
by
theboos
on 10/06/2011, 03:31:11 UTC
Closed-source clients have the ability to send your Bitcoins where you don't want, or simply steal your wallet.dat, but can't affect the network as a whole. Even open source miners simply hash what is handed them by a server. The vulnerability lies with a powerful pool (Deepbit for example) verifying invalid blocks and splitting the chain.