Jameson Lopp’s Bitcoin Testnet ‘Griefing’ Stirs Controversy
Jameson Lopp, a prominent figure within the Bitcoin community, intentionally “griefed” one among Bitcoin’s testnets by generating three years’ payment of blocks in a single week to highlight a vulnerability, sparking outrage among fellow Bitcoin developers. The exercise of factual 20 lines of code and about $1 payment of electrical energy…
Jameson Lopp, a prominent figure within the Bitcoin community, intentionally “griefed” one among Bitcoin’s testnets by generating three years’ payment of blocks in a single week to highlight a vulnerability, sparking outrage among fellow Bitcoin developers. The exercise of factual 20 lines of code and about $1 payment of electrical energy…
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