Does any one know how long it would take for a TW attack to start to manifest itself?
I don't know when the clock started, some time yesterday?
Yeah, I think it's been 24+ hours now so was wondering at which point, roughly, people could start believing all is safe and sound.
TL;DR
Its over. TW attacks will never again work against XMR.
If you read the last commit on github, you'll know the whole answer.
ANN here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg8961211#msg8961211XMR Dev team rose to the challenge of forced evolution in the time available.
They have crafted a polymorphic bitmonerod+client that adds checkpoints at will and with no dev team intervention needed. Its a decentralized self-maintainable solution that scales as needed. Even if you DDoS github, checkpoints can still be deployed.
Thanks are due to BCX for initiating the game. I hope it was rewarding, even though he was outplayed, this time.
If there are also some other anon-busters, but that don't rely on defanged TW, they're probably rested and ready for a rematch by now.