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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: newbie questions: fee estimation, file size prediction, ISP blocking
by
MoonShadow
on 19/04/2011, 01:19:52 UTC
I wonder if an attacker could harm the network by taking over the IRC server it uses?

Not for long.  IRC is not a critical aspect of the system.  IT's not even part of the protocol, and is only used as a peer discovery method that is not exclusive.