[bitcoin-core-dev] On the initial notice of CVE-2018-17144

2018-09-22 Thread Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-core-dev
For some reason I don't understand, Andrea Suisani is stating on twitter that the the report by awemany was a report of an inflation bug, contrary to the timeline we published. This is not the case: the report specifically stated that inflation was not possible because the node crashed. It also

Re: [bitcoin-core-dev] [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core update notice

2018-09-21 Thread Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-core-dev
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 4:25 AM gb via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > If the bugfix can be backported to earlier versions why is the Have been backported, not merely can be. > hype/hysteria about "everybody" must immediately upgrade to 0.16.3 > currently being spread on the forums/reddit? For