Removed alert system from main.cpp #506
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Even though it no longer triggers RPC safe mode there is some concern that it could still be misused. Signed-off-by: David Perry <enmaku@gmail.com>
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There is concern by who? I strongly believe that the ability to broadcast a message in case of emergency is important; before removing it, generate some consensus on the bitcoin-dev mailing list that removing it is a good idea (I'll argue against). |
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I was simply going off the comments on the Bitcoin StackExchange. I believe the primary concern was that it could be used for spam/DoS. I'll gladly submit the idea to the mailing list for consensus. |
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I believe this is in reference to http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/740/how-can-the-alert-system-be-triggered-who-can-do-it and http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/636/is-the-alert-system-still-in-the-main-clients-code-will-it-be-removed I'm not really for removing it, but there's always the Git history if we want to revive and improve it to be more decentralized down the road. |
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That's correct Alex. There's a discussion on the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list if you've got input to add: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=CAOPxoMv7EGwgBNuvYpaD_4LtyxUUCvQ2Pe0DCZO4uHoAoMyfnA%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=bitcoin-development |
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It seems that public opinion is that the code should remain for the time being. Closing this request until there are additional commits or more support in the mailing list/forums. |
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Fair enough. Sounds like there's some good discussion about the alert system at least so I don't consider my time to have been wasted bringing it up :) |
[Release] thintimer backport
…presentation ec0a7b3 Don't touch leading zeros in wnaf_fixed. (Jonas Nick) 9e36d1b Fix bug in wnaf_fixed where the wnaf array is not completely zeroed when given a 0 scalar. (Jonas Nick) 96f68a0 Don't invert scalar in wnaf_fixed when it is even because a caller might intentionally give a scalar with many leading zeros. (Jonas Nick) 6dbb007 Increase sparsity of pippenger fixed window naf representation (Jonas Nick) Pull request description: Fixes bitcoin#506 Tree-SHA512: 49a237a7d09c0c376ba4e6b1f522b9aff2517e420dfef9df810fd5ba920e0b98be8fe3f730b32e41b4aef475bc4cf3b13220024bd8d6f40c2744e6f392ff97a8
…-#503 fix unlock wallet issue
path-finding: rephrased sentence
Even though it no longer triggers RPC safe mode there is some concern that it could still be misused.
Signed-off-by: David Perry enmaku@gmail.com