On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 7:03:54 AM Alan Reiner wrote: > I'm sure it won't be long before Slashdot and a variety of sources start > reporting on this event. Bitcoin has been in the media a lot lately, so > this story is likely to get some attention. The blowback of this event > is mostly psychological, so I think it would be exceptionally wise to > start preparing PR comments that can be posted on articles immediately > after they go public. This event is likely draw much more negative > attention than it deserves, and getting some positive&informed comments > posted up front will potentially make a difference in the way the story > is received. > > Undoubtedly, many articles (and especially commenters) will shape this > into "the end of Bitcoin". I would describe it as "there was a short > and mostly-harmless lapse in the ability of the network to reach a > consensus, causing transactions to get delayed by a few hours." It > *really* needs to be emphasized that coins are safe, and nothing anyone > has/could do will change that. And that it would've been extremely > difficult to exploit for gain. Transactions got delayed while a bug was > fixed. End of story.
I think we should be careful not to downplay the reality either. For a number of hours, transactions could have received up to N confirmations and then still been reversed. While we could contact the bigger payment processors, I saw people still trying to buy/sell on OTC, whom could have been scammed even by taking standard precautions. Luke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
