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Bitcoin 0.8.4 Update Offers Security Improvements

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46 pointsCrunchyJams14 comments

[Edit: This post should have been to a security contact. Nevermind.]

You should just delete this post rather than taunt us.

An even bigger tease is here:

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/375290368004067328

Though, it's unclear if Patrick means to include 0.8.4 in his warning, or is just reasoning back from what the fixes in 0.8.4 have revealed about risks for people running earlier versions.

I was going to say I can't imagine anyone exposing that endpoint directly to the internet, but unfortunately I can.

is there place or link that explains bitcoin in pure english, i'm so pissed off that i'm unable to understand thoroughly.

bitcoin.org and the SecondMarket Bitcoin Education Center (https://www.secondmarket.com/education/learn/bitcoin-educati...) are great resources

Another couple of potential resources: http://www.weusecoins.com/ and http://trybtc.com/ . Khan Academy also did a series of videos if you want more of a deep dive -- approachable to anyone with a tech background and really answered a lot of questions about the protocol for me: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...

We put up a very brief intro page here: https://gli.ph/bitcoin.html

But you may also enjoy the recently published "Practical Aspects of the Bitcoin System"

http://cryptome.org/2013/09/bitcoin-practical-aspects.pdf

This could be another resources. It is a video series by Charles Hoskinson. https://www.udemy.com/bitcoin-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worry...

A buddy and I created http://bitcoinsimplified.org to try to solve that problem.

My attempt at a super simple non-technical explanation: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=66

On a broader note:

I have started to think it isn't practical to explain how Bitcoin works to non-technical people. For a long time, I tried to explain it to my parents Then, I realized that people don't understand the payment systems they already use (credit cards, debit cards, bank transfers, even cash). They just know that it has value, when numbers go up or down, who to call when something goes wrong, and how to give someone enough information to handle the transfer process for them. The same thing happened with certificate-based authentication / encryption.

Certainly to non-technical people, it's just digital cash that takes a bit of time to hand from one person to another? Isn't that a nearly perfect understanding for someone that doesn't want to know about hashing, blockchains, double spends, etc.?

http://trybtc.com/

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