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Alerts: Disable SPV Mining Alert #964

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harding commented Jul 15, 2015

This PR removes the alert banner from every page of the site and changes the bolded text near the top of the alert to:

screenshot-btcorg localhost 2015-07-15 08-59-50

I'm not sure we should be disabling the alert banner: if I understand correctly, several large miners have decided to stay with SPV mining (or worse, previous-header-hash-only mining).

On the other hand, I'm not aware of any short-term proposals to restore SPV wallet confirmation reliability to what it was when every miner did full validation---so the alternative seems to be keeping this alert up indefinitely, and I don't want to do that.

Comments appreciated.

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saivann commented Jul 15, 2015

Untested LGTM e509a92

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harding commented Jul 16, 2015

Since the Reddit and Bitcoin Talk alerts have been un-stickied, I'm going to merge this pull in a couple hours if there are no further comments.

@harding harding merged commit e509a92 into master Jul 16, 2015

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