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Cryptocurrency Ecosystem => Bitcoin Forum => Bitcoin News & Updates => Topic started by: sirty143 on October 14, 2018, 03:39:02 AM

Title: Not Everyone Wants to Fix Bitcoin's 'Time Warp Attack' – Here's Why
Post by: sirty143 on October 14, 2018, 03:39:02 AM

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 (https://www.coindesk.com/not-everyone-wants-to-fix-bitcoins-time-warp-attack-heres-why/).