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Researchers Locate Flaw In Bitcoin Protocol

Posted by Unknown on from the path-of-least-information dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at Microsoft Research and Cornell identified a potential flaw in Bitcoin's transaction propagation. In a recent paper they show how miner nodes in the Bitcoin network have an incentive not to relay transactions to the rest of the network, and propose to implement a scheme that rewards nodes [PDF] for relaying messages."

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  1. Re:And what's the Bitcoin Forums response? by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Troll

    If people stop mining bitcoins now, the people at the top will stop winning, so of course they are going to deny. You know, kind of like global warming.

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