So apparently, CSWcoin is going to hardfork in the near future. Said hardfork includes the fantastic idea of basically stealing people's unclaimed BTC, which means, if you didn't claim your BSV, those coins will be "confiscated" by CSW-Ayre's mining operation (which I presume are the only people mining the thing). This also includes that satoshi's "1 million" coins will be stolen. According to raw calculations, they'll get $85million. I mean, it's not a lot, but still, this has to be a joke right? am I taking crazy pills? How is people unironically supporting such thing at this point?
I assume most here didn't even bother claiming the coins. I mean, it's such a pain claiming a forked coins, you have to do much for so little, but I don't appreciate CSW getting free money, but still, I may just don't bother.
If this is not the case, correct me if im wrong on the whole thing, but that is what I extracted from what I've read.
Can you link to highlighted, please?
Apart from rumors, i haven' seen anything solid, as it would be very weird.
Gmaxwell did address this on bsv subreddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bsv/comments/edr0av/massive_replay_theft_coming_to_a_scamchain_near/And official bsv page says:
https://bitcoinsv.io/2019/12/23/bitcoin-sv-blocking-potential-p2sh-replay-attack-after-genesis-hard-fork/Mitigation
In response, the Bitcoin SV Node team will update the Genesis hard fork specification by upgrading the rule rejecting the P2SH script pattern from a policy rule to a consensus rule. That is the specific script template OP_HASH160 OP_EQUAL will not be allowed in new outputs and this rule will be directly implemented in the Bitcoin SV Node software. Whilst unfortunate to restrict the usage of a particular script pattern, we note that the same effect can be achieved using variations of the script pattern e.g. OP_SHA256 OP_RIPEMD160 OP_EQUAL.
This change closes the attack vector and mitigates the need for honest miners to forcibly reject blocks containing theft transactions. Whilst this could have triggered a valuable demonstration of the principle of honest miners acting punitively against dishonest miners, the public disclosure by Mr. Maxwell raises the potential cost to those miners to an unacceptable level.
Note: The theory is that it is argued if there were any "mistakes" here, and stealing funds was always part of the plan, they just got caught by gmaxwell.
I don't understand any of this. I read the subreddit linked above. Which coins might be stolen if the worst happens? What does it mean for those of us who have bitcoins stored in segwit addresses and "compatibile" (starting with 3) addresses?