From 1b73bc893dcaad5580997c40b5cbadd2acebec06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David A. Harding" Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 02:29:10 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Alerts: spv mining draft-3 --- _alerts/2015-07-04-spv-mining.html | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/_alerts/2015-07-04-spv-mining.html b/_alerts/2015-07-04-spv-mining.html index 8c9433a6..df56da9b 100644 --- a/_alerts/2015-07-04-spv-mining.html +++ b/_alerts/2015-07-04-spv-mining.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: "Some Miners Generating Invalid Blocks" alias: "spv-mining" active: true -banner: "WARNING: many wallets currently vulnerable to double spends (click here to read)" +banner: "WARNING: many wallets currently vulnerable to double-spending of confirmed transactions (click here to read)" ---

This document is being updated as new information arrives. Last @@ -20,13 +20,34 @@ update: 2015-07-04 06:00 UTC

validation.

Users of the above listed vulnerable software must either stop - accepting transactions—even if they are confirmed— or upgrade to Bitcoin + accepting transactions—even if they are confirmed—or upgrade to Bitcoin Core 0.10.2.

Users of Bitcoin Core 0.9.5 and later are currently unaffected.

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Miners: If you are a pool miner, please switch immediately to a - pool to that fully validates blocks.

+

Miners

+ +If you pool mine, please switch to a pool that properly validates +blocks. (If you solo mine, please switch to Bitcoin Core 0.10.2.) + +

Bad pools: these pools are not correctly validating, and are +losing money.

+ + + +

Good pools: these pools properly validate blocks. Please +switch to them, at least until the bad pools have fixed their +systems.

+ +

More information to follow.