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Bitcoin is enemies.
Environmental alarms, stubborn central bankers and out-of-touch politicians will definitely be counted, even though their rank has become thin in the last few years.
There is also asymmetric boomer economist who still jumps on the occasion of suggestion that bitcoin has no internal value and a symbol of more and more foolish theory, if it means additional engagement.
All those arcatypes are great heels that regularly serve as a sounding board for bitcoin discourse.
There are also those who have attacked bitcoin for boredom, curiosity or just entertainment. Which I think something is cold.
This is the story of such a punk helbant on disrupting bitcoin.
On this day – bitcoin is stoned
The story begins back in 1987 for more than two decades from bitcoin.
It is believed that Malware was known as a stone by an unknown student at the University of Wellington in New Zealand, which was one of the earlier computer viruses.
Stoned was an early boot virus, a category that infects a hard drive or boot sector of removable media (mostly floppy disk back), stating that computers initially load their operating system and run other necessary start-up functions.
it was Technically A novel virus, but in fact, the stone was more of a wide mischief.
One of the eight occasions of loading a screen in an infected machine will showcase a pro-pot message:
“Your PC is now stoning! Low Marijuana!”
Twenty -seven years later, on 15 May 2014, a pseudonym name Windows 7 user Informed A wrong positive positive positive from their microsoft safety compulsory package.
Microsoft’s underlying antivirus software detected the virus signat of Stoned in the blockchain data of bitcoin, leading to the removal of constant annoying popup and even all relevant files.
This included removing the entire copy of the history of the chain required to sync the nodes, which was about 19 GB of big at that time, data that would be re -loaded by bitcoin clients automatically.
It was really no meaning for stone Infected Bitcoin core. The virus code will be completely benign, even if it is somehow written in its entirety in the series.
The ongoing principle was that perhaps due to some statistical discrepancy, the hash function for its block header of bitcoin had somehow generated adequately to identify the hexadecimal bite sequences of the stone as a real virus for Microsoft’s malware scanner.
Microsoft quickly patted security compulsory to ignore curiosity.
The smoking gun came only six weeks later, through the professional Didier Stevens. It was not a deception: someone tried to deliberately bring down bitcoin nodes.
Stevens was Discovered A range of transactions from April 4, 2014, containing an output with similar byte sequences inside the stone code.
Meanwhile, two days ago, A Esoteric The post by an anonymous writer specially underlined a method of spaming bitcoins to trigger false-positives from antivirus software.
He wrote: “Spaming bitcoin databases with the virus sign will cause havoc. Some antivirus works will remove the database locally, denying bitcoin-client access until other databases.”
“Some will not be able to resume their bitcoin-whites (and cannot understand why). Some will format and restore their computer … once again when they are ‘infected’ when they get a bitcoin client again.”
Subsequently, panic will attack “Computer N00BS” with rumors that the bitcoin virus is spreading. Then, chaos, drama of status with media.
“The price of bitcoin will fall in haste … please help spam bitcoin database with virus sign :)”
Within about a day of the post, Stond Bitecode was injected into the chain data of bitcoin.
Of course, there was no widespread panic. The price of bitcoin in relation to mischief never crashed, and the hash rate was not a noticeable decline as the nodes were knocked offline.
But there were stage threads about it, as well as Media headlinesBlog and other posts, including this one, 11 years later. This will be counted for something.
– David
With a pod
These days, bitcoin is rapidly dividing whether spam is not contrary to stone bitecode, in fact, is a virus.
“When we attack, we are always hostile to shitciners. Do not make any mistake, they are now attacking and we should be hostile to them again.”
They are the emotional term of Chris Guida, which is a bitcoin ecosystem developer, which is in favor of preventing non-standard data from making it in the chain through the polling OP_Tar Field.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CDPV- Herxa
In two -hour episode of today’s epic Supply shock,
“It is called a filter and not a wall because some things are going to slip. This is fine, the point of spam filter is to increase the cost of spaming so that the worst criminals, things of BRC 20 things that had a large amount of transactions on peaks, may not be.”
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