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On Mar 10, 2016 16:51, "Mustafa Al-Bassam via bitcoin-dev" <<a href="mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>> wrote:</p>
<p dir="ltr">> I think in general this sounds like a good definition for a hard-fork<br>
> becoming active. But I can envision a situation where someone will try<br>
> to be annoying about it and point to one instance of one buyer and one<br>
> seller using the blockchain to buy and sell from each other, or set one up.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And all the attacker will achieve is preventing a field on a text file on github from moving from "active" to "final". <br>
Seems pretty stupid. Why would an attacker care so much about this? Is there any way the attacker can make gains or harm bitcoin with this attack?</p>