First, I just had the epiphany a few hours ago and I have been multitasking on other things too as you can see by my post history today.
So I could be incorrect, or the developers may have thought of it long ago and already put mitigation in place. So please don't jump to conclusions. I don't want to end up looking like a fool.
It appears to me that what I found can be mitigated to retain anonymity while protecting the wallets, so that makes me wonder whether I found BCX's exploit or not. But the mitigation might be onerous, I and or CN devs will need to spend more analysis time on this.
I don't have the resources to exploit it. And the exploit takes some time to develop. So don't expect anyone attacking any time soon.
My expectation is it is not as big an issue as BCX is saying. If I am correct, we can probably get this wrapped up very soon and continue forward.
I don't think a run on the coin's price would be justified at this time.
I probably did the wrong thing and should have only announced my discovery to the developers, so it could be vetted privately first. But my first reaction was how to short because if a coin killer I could earn a lot more. As I realized there is probably mitigation and also as I realized that to short I would be borrowing from the longs who are deep pocketed, that I couldn't win a shorting battle unless it was a fight to the finish and I have no desire to fight with my friend Risto nor the other developers I would like to work with in the future.
So the wisest action is to sell my insight to them if I am correct. Let them work on mitigation.
Again I could be wrong or making a mountain out of a molehill, and I doubt this is a coin killer. So just relax while I await what CN devs will offer me for my insight.
At least hopefully we can get some closure soon on the BCX exploit.
Thanks for this post Anonymint, you seem to be one of the most reasonable people on this forum, and certainly far more reasonable than I am at times.
Let's see where this goes.