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The hatred for Mt Gox in the bitcoin community blinded them to the reality that the malleability bug is very serious. The way the bitcoin community responded was irresponsible.

Regardless of whether there are workarounds, it's a tragic security flaw in the protocol and should have been treated as such.

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As I understand it, this was a problem that was identified over 2 years ago, and fixed for over a year. The problem is that MtGox implemented their own wallet software, and neglected to include bug fixes from the reference client.

I don't believe that is correct. The core devs relied on people implementing workarounds.

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