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Bitcoin Fixes This

Commenters repeatedly assert that Bitcoin already addresses the problems or criticisms raised in the article, citing the whitepaper, developer mailing lists, GitHub issues, and core developers like Pieter Wuille. Discussions defend Bitcoin's protocol, primitives, and design against claims of shortcomings.

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crypot • Nov 30, 2021 • View on HN

Bitcoin fixes this. Read the whitepaper.

textbookrental • May 12, 2022 • View on HN

Bitcoin fixes this. Read the white paper.

Stevvo • Jan 21, 2022 • View on HN

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015...

tptacek • Jan 26, 2015 • View on HN

Those are Bitcoin's primitives, right? Presumably, they're just doing what everyone else does.

wmf • Jul 11, 2021 • View on HN

Bitcoin does not and never did work that way. https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/13/11/263

carlsborg • Jan 14, 2022 • View on HN

Bitcoin (and others) solve this.

isubkhankulov • Jun 14, 2017 • View on HN

opaque? have you seen the bitcoin dev mailing list? or the github issue list?

nemo1618 • Sep 27, 2020 • View on HN

I'll let Pieter Wuille explain: https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1297630790713348096?s=19

whb07 • Apr 17, 2021 • View on HN

The actual bitcoin-core wallet needs revamping, why don’t you start there?

giancarlostoro • Mar 7, 2018 • View on HN

This assumes if it's a direct fork of Bitcoin and not focused on privacy like Monero or Bytecoin.