Alerts: move good/bad mining pools to wiki, other changes

- Recommend upgrade to 0.10.2 because of unrelated DoS issues
- Update times
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banner: "WARNING: many wallets currently vulnerable to double-spending of confirmed transactions (click here to read)" banner: "WARNING: many wallets currently vulnerable to double-spending of confirmed transactions (click here to read)"
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<p><em>This document is being updated as new information arrives. Last <p><em>This document is being updated as new information arrives. Last
update: 2015-07-04 09:30 UTC</em></p> update: 2015-07-04 16:00 UTC</em></p>
{% assign confs="30" %} {% assign confs="30" %}
<h2 id="summary">Summary</h2> <h2 id="summary">Summary</h2>
<p>Your bitcoins are safe if you received them in transactions confirmed before 2015-07-04 08:00 UTC.</p> <p>Your bitcoins are safe if you received them in transactions confirmed before 2015-07-04 15:00 UTC.</p>
<p>However, there has been a problem with a planned upgrade. For <p>However, there has been a problem with a planned upgrade. For
bitcoins received later than the time above, confirmation scores are bitcoins received later than the time above, confirmation scores are
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more than you would normally wait, unless you know for sure that your more than you would normally wait, unless you know for sure that your
wallet is secured by Bitcoin Core 0.9.5 or later.</li> wallet is secured by Bitcoin Core 0.9.5 or later.</li>
<li><b>Bitcoin Core 0.9.5 or later users are unaffected.</b></li> <li><b>Bitcoin Core 0.9.5 or later users are unaffected.</b> (Note:
<a href="/en/download">upgrade to 0.10.2</a> is recommend due to
denial-of-service vulnerabilities unrelated to this alert.)</li>
</ul> </ul>
<h2 id="miners">Miners</h2> <h2 id="miners">Miners</h2>
<p>If you pool mine, please switch to a pool that properly validates <p>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.)</p> blocks. The Wiki Mining Pool Comparison page currently contains a list of <a
href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools#SPV_Mining_.2F_Old_Bitcoin_Core">known (or
suspected) good and bad pools.</a></p>
<p><b>Bad pools:</b> these pools are not correctly validating, and are <p>If you solo mine, please switch to Bitcoin Core 0.10.2.</p>
losing money.</p>
<ul>
<li>BTC Nuggets</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Good pools:</b> these pools properly validate blocks. Please
switch to them, at least until the bad pools have fixed their
systems.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://eligius.st/">Eligius</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.kano.is">kano/ckpool</a></li>
<li><a href="http://p2pool.in/">P2Pool</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.f2pool.com/">F2Pool</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="solution">When Will Things Go Back To Normal?</h2> <h2 id="solution">When Will Things Go Back To Normal?</h2>