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aroch
No one claimed the 10BTC bug bounty for the OSX client, so its all a matter of hoping things are fixed
gojomo
This seems like a reasonably strong claim - and has the post title, "Claiming Bitcoin's Bug Bounty":

http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/27/bitcoin-leveldb/

The corruption explained there matched the pattern seen in representative cases supplied by the core team.

The core team may not have yet awarded the bounty, and there were a few other possibly contributing factors regarding proper use of LevelDB on OSX before the above work... but there's certainly a strong case made that a real fix has been discovered and deployed.

maaku
It's been claimed (see the other replies). Just waiting on confirmation that this fixes the problem entirely before paying out, I believe.
AsymetricCom
Seems kind if weird that Bitcoin (actually bitcoind) itself would be dependent on a google-developed database solution that isn't open source, and not only that, has non-determinate behavior, depending on the host system..
teraflop
Why do you think LevelDB isn't open source? https://code.google.com/p/leveldb/
AsymetricCom
Because it has dependencies on libs that are not open source, so that means "closed" as propagated across this "open" system.
teraflop
I was assuming you were mistaken, but it's starting to look like you're just making things up. LevelDB has no dependencies other the Snappy compression codec, which is both optional and BSD-licensed.
maaku
> has non-determinate behavior, depending on the host system..

Care to provide details?

AsymetricCom
RTFA
maaku
The fine article does not describe indeterminate platform-specific behavior within LevelDB. I assume you are talking about Mac corruption fix which Robert Escriva put in. This problem was with the behavior of munmap on Darwin, and did not result in the leveldb database being in a usable platform-specific state.
ck2
Bitcoin is about to break 1 Billion difficulty.

The leap in difficulty must mean all the 500-600Ghash/sec 28nm ASICs are coming online.

ostikk
Given that there has been a 8x growth in price, miners must still be profitable at this point? If I were an ASIC supplier, I would be delaying shipping and "alpha testing" those hardware in times like this
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humbledrone
> * If I were an ASIC supplier, I would be delaying shipping and "alpha testing" those hardware in times like this*

I'm glad that you're not an ASIC supplier, because that's fraudulent and dishonest.

ck2
At 500ghash/sec you can only make half a coin per day now.

I would imagine they burn in test for 24 hours but with so many units to build they would have to rotate them out.

Soon a $5000 machine like that will only make a quarter coin per day.

nhilma
By lifting min output for free transction does the bitcoin network become more vulnerable to DDOS?
newsmaster
Genuine question: Does this mean Btc is not so decentralized after all? Could they possibly decide one day to release an update to exercise ultimate control/power over btc?
haakon
It's certainly a point of trust, but ultimately it's the miners who decide how Bitcoin works. So far this has predominantly worked by them using software from bitcoin.org and upgrading it relatively frequently, but this would probably change very quickly once they stop thinking of the bitcoin.org developers as working in their interest.