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Re: [88attendees] Get your bitcoins with your coffee

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer+ietf@nic.fr> Tue, 05 November 2013 06:53 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer+ietf@nic.fr>
To: Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com>
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On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 04:49:16PM -0800,
 Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> wrote 
 a message of 9 lines which said:

> Yep; maybe you could talk about this recently described exploit:
> 
> http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/04/bitcoin-is-broken/

Like many (most?) papers in computer and network security, a real
attack and an overinflated title (no, Bitcoin is not broken, the title
does not match the content of the article).

See <https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=324413.0> for a balanced
view.

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