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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.
Read article ↗September 18, 201010,000 BTC for an open-source GPU miner
Jeff Garzik funded the release of code that an entire community could inspect and extend.
Read article ↗2010 → 2018Bitcoin'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.
Read article ↗Open source · Reproducible buildsHow 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.
Read article ↗CVE-2018-17144 · September 2018 · 11 min readThe 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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