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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Critical Bug Found in Bitcoin Core
by
CrazyCraig
on 19/09/2018, 21:11:45 UTC
nope. bcause theres a few hundred nodes(10%) that were not core 0.14-0.16.2 even before 24 hours ago...
meaning if 90% were 0.14-0.16.2 now with 10% of those are now 0.16.3 thats only 80% that are stil 0.14-0.16.3

My apologizes, did not realize you were only counting .14+ nodes.

Anyway, all the nodes that I personally manage have been updated within the last 24. I suspect by the end of the week we will see about 30-40% of nodes upgraded. Outside of backing up data and verifying the packages, upgrading took less than 5 minutes and could be as simple as upgrading the PPA package if using ubuntu.


I agree with you on your decentralization points.

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The bug is patched already. Users just need to upgrade to the 0.16.3 version and even if they don't immediately, their coins are not in risks.
It' not the type of bug that put Bitcoin core at risk, nor the market will be influenced from this news.

You are correct as it is patched. The point was that only 10% of the network is using the upgraded binary putting the rest of it at risk. While extremely unlikely, it is entirely possible the network could be at risk for a 51% attack and the price being brought down.