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Bitcoin is comparatively simple! Lightning maybe less so 😅
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Big Barry Bitcoin 1y ago

Surprising to hear that considering all the different components that can be attacked and abused...

- Peer discovery

- mempool

- utxo set db

- bitcoin script

- pinning attacks

Etc.

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Matt Corallo 1y ago

Have you ever taken a serious look at TLS/X.509/Certificate Authorities/DNS Poisoning/BGP Hijacking……..? :)

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Big Barry Bitcoin 1y ago

No, but it feels intuitive that something that serves one purpose (AFAIK) would have less attack vectors than one that has many endpoints.

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Matt Corallo 1y ago

You might be surprised :)