From 9f30adba9fdcb59be50aa6a399938e6045409d4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David A. Harding" Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 11:56:30 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Alerts: move good/bad mining pools to wiki, other changes - Recommend upgrade to 0.10.2 because of unrelated DoS issues - Update times --- _alerts/2015-07-04-spv-mining.html | 30 +++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/_alerts/2015-07-04-spv-mining.html b/_alerts/2015-07-04-spv-mining.html index 0fb19992..eb2273cd 100644 --- a/_alerts/2015-07-04-spv-mining.html +++ b/_alerts/2015-07-04-spv-mining.html @@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ active: true 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 -update: 2015-07-04 09:30 UTC

+update: 2015-07-04 16:00 UTC

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Summary

-

Your bitcoins are safe if you received them in transactions confirmed before 2015-07-04 08:00 UTC.

+

Your bitcoins are safe if you received them in transactions confirmed before 2015-07-04 15:00 UTC.

However, there has been a problem with a planned upgrade. For bitcoins received later than the time above, confirmation scores are @@ -30,31 +30,19 @@ update: 2015-07-04 09:30 UTC

more than you would normally wait, unless you know for sure that your wallet is secured by Bitcoin Core 0.9.5 or later. -
  • Bitcoin Core 0.9.5 or later users are unaffected.
    • +
  • Bitcoin Core 0.9.5 or later users are unaffected. (Note: + upgrade to 0.10.2 is recommend due to + denial-of-service vulnerabilities unrelated to this alert.)

    • 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.)

    +blocks. The Wiki Mining Pool Comparison page currently contains a list of known (or +suspected) good and bad pools.

    -

    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.

    - - +

    If you solo mine, please switch to Bitcoin Core 0.10.2.

    When Will Things Go Back To Normal?