If only if there was some immutable ledger that no one can modify, publicly available to all so we know exactly how much of it exists. If onlya commodity existed that magically can never inflate. Hmmmm...
You are misreading my point. I am not attacking on the basis of the bug itself, nor is my point regarding the security of the base level software itself.
I merely pointed out, via using the overflow bug, that the clean up post bug fix was to erase the offending transaction from the chain via Bitcoin's longest chain consensus protocol. That goes against your assertion that Bitcoin is an immutable ledger.
Remember, immutable means "Not subject or susceptible to change." If they hardcoded a blacklist of those 2 wallet addresses while keeping the transaction on chain, then there would be a point to saying Bitcoin has immutability.
Removing that transaction post-hoc however means that Bitcoin is not immutable, for better or worse. That is merely my point.
If only if there was some immutable ledger that no one can modify, publicly available to all so we know exactly how much of it exists. If onlya commodity existed that magically can never inflate. Hmmmm...
"If only if there was some immutable ledger that no one can modify"
Short article about Bitcoin's little incident with block 74638, and how they then proceeded to change aforementioned "immutable" ledger to fix it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ylPDkb6jVKc
You are misreading my point. I am not attacking on the basis of the bug itself, nor is my point regarding the security of the base level software itself.
I merely pointed out, via using the overflow bug, that the clean up post bug fix was to erase the offending transaction from the chain via Bitcoin's longest chain consensus protocol. That goes against your assertion that Bitcoin is an immutable ledger.
Remember, immutable means "Not subject or susceptible to change." If they hardcoded a blacklist of those 2 wallet addresses while keeping the transaction on chain, then there would be a point to saying Bitcoin has immutability.
Removing that transaction post-hoc however means that Bitcoin is not immutable, for better or worse. That is merely my point.