diff --git a/_alerts/2015-07-04-spv-mining.html b/_alerts/2015-07-04-spv-mining.html index e9edd929..b2eb3b98 100644 --- a/_alerts/2015-07-04-spv-mining.html +++ b/_alerts/2015-07-04-spv-mining.html @@ -7,14 +7,16 @@ banner: "WARNING: many wallets currently vulnerable to double-spending of confir
This document is being updated as new information arrives. Last update: 2015-07-04 09:00 UTC
-{% assign confs="15" %} +{% assign confs="30" %}Your bitcoins are safe if you received them in transactions confirmed before 2015-07-04 08:00 UTC.
-After that time, confirmation scores are not as reliable as they -usually are for users of certain software:
+However, there has been a problem with a planned upgrade. For + bitcoins received later than the time above, confirmation scores are + significantly less reliable then they usually are for users of + certain software:
However, the BIP66 soft fork implementation method of waiting for - only 95% of miners to upgrade does leave miner-trusting software such - as lightweight wallets at increased risk of seeing invalid single - confirmations (10% risk), invalid double confirmations (1% risk), and - maybe even invalid triple confirmations (0.1% risk) until more of - the 5% non-upgraded miners do finally upgrade. So for the next - several weeks (maybe months), lightweight wallet users, web wallet - users, and users of old versions of Bitcoin Core should wait an extra - two to three confirmations.
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