📅 Original date posted:2016-02-06
📝 Original message:On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 04:11:58PM -0500, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 12:45:14PM -0500, Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Adam Back <adam at cypherspace.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > It would probably be a good idea to have a security considerations
> > > section
> >
> >
> > Containing what? I'm not aware of any security considerations that are any
> > different from any other consensus rules change.
>
> I covered the security considerations unique to hard-forks on my blog:
>
> https://petertodd.org/2016/soft-forks-are-safer-than-hard-forks
Oh, and to be 100% clear, I should say those are only *some of* the
unique security considerations - for starters the article is mainly
talking about uncontroversial hard-forks, and doesn't even delve into
economic attacks among other omissions. It's just an introductory
article.
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