The long-awaited reveal of the private keys connected to a now-defunct alert system built into bitcoin occurred Monday through an email by two Bitcoin Core developers, Bryan Bishop and Andrew Chow.
In the email, the two wrote that the reason for full disclosure of the bitcoin alert keys was to “mitigate the effects of unknown dissemination and proliferation of the keys.”
Further, Bishop and Chow emphasized that these keys would no longer pose risk to the bitcoin network, explaining that “the bitcoin alert system has been completely retired.”
Retired or not, social media kicked into overdrive once news about this bitcoin secret having finally gone public caught wind.
Indeed, any secret possession of the key would, in theory, open the risk of broadcasting false messages to nodes across the network.
Bitcoin’s alert key, which has on some rare occassions been used in emergency situations to notify nodes of vulnerabilities, has now publicly been revealed by Bryan Bishop as follows: “mainnet public.
Создатель биржи LedgerX Брайан Бишоп написал сообщение, которое было подписано приватным ключом Сатоши Накамото к сигнальной системе сети bitcoin. Об этом он заявил в своем микроблоге в Twitter. Satoshi alert key's signature of sha256("I am not CSW.
Брайан Бишоп, разработчик компании LedgerX, специализирующийся на криптовалютных деривативах, опубликовал приватный ключ Сатоши Накамото к сигнальной системе сети биткоина. Это «открытие» он сделал в своём Твиттере, добавив, что «это будет интересное шоу».
Разработчик специализирующейся на криптовалютных деривативах биржи LedgerX Брайан Бишоп опубликовал приватный ключ Сатоши Накамото к сигнальной системе сети биткоина. Satoshi alert key's signature of sha256("I am not CSW.
Разработчик специализирующейся на криптовалютных деривативах биржи LedgerX Брайан Бишоп опубликовал сообщение, подписанное приватным ключом Сатоши Накамото к сигнальной системе сети биткоина. Satoshi alert key’s signature of sha256(«I am not CSW.
Разработчик специализирующейся на криптовалютных деривативах биржи LedgerX Брайан Бишоп опубликовал приватный ключ Сатоши Накамото к сигнальной системе сети биткоина. Satoshi alert key’s signature of sha256(«I am not CSW.
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