Not Everyone Wants to Fix Bitcoin's 'Time Warp Attack' – Here's Why

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Bitcoin's open-source developers don't agree on many things, but you'd be forgiven if you thought something best known as an "attack" might be one of them. Still, there's a divide forming in conversation surrounding bitcoin's long-standing "timewarp attack" – and for good reason. First and foremost, Blockstream co-founder Mark Friedenbach recently found that the exploit could be harnessed to help bitcoin scale – that is, reach more users and process more transactions faster, if developers embrace and implement the idea. See more for yourself here.