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Verify the actions

Trust begins where actions are visible.

5 articles in this rubric.

June 11, 2010

The faucet that gave away 5 BTC

Gavin Andresen committed his own coins so strangers could verify the network for themselves.

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September 18, 2010

10,000 BTC for an open-source GPU miner

Jeff Garzik funded the release of code that an entire community could inspect and extend.

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2010 → 2018

Bitcoin's Alert Key: The Right to Warn the Network

Why one emergency channel became a centralization risk—and how the community publicly retired its privileged key.

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Open source · Reproducible builds

How to Check That Software Came from the Published Code

Why open source alone is not enough and how reproducible builds reduce reliance on one distributor.

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CVE-2018-17144 · September 2018 · 11 min read

The Inflation Bug First Announced as a Crash

How CVE-2018-17144 could allow one output to be spent twice inside a block and why full disclosure waited for upgrades.

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